Grandma Bingo
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- May 14, 2013
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Your posts in this thread are way off base and you seem to be confusing two different conversations. Yes we can look at relative skill compared to competition in each generation of hockey and yes we can look at the progress of skill over time, but that doesn't mean players from yesteryear are as talented as modern players.
1950s hockey is honestly on par with beer leagues of today. As proof, check out the highlights from the 1954 cup finals between the Habs and Red Wings. Saying players of today couldn't hack it back then is laughable.
Not a single 1950s-era NHL player, if magically transported to 2018, would make a NHL roster. Most wouldn't make AHL rosters.
Now... if they were transported here as children, and got to grow up with current training regimens, nutrition, diets, etc.... then maybe.
But watching that video, I've seen better, faster hockey among 9th-grade teams.
Similarly... Jack Lambert and Johnny Unitas wouldn't make an NFL roster nowadays. And modern baseball pitchers would blow the ball past a tub of lard like Babe Ruth today. It would be ugly.