Sens Rule
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- Sep 22, 2005
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Call me an ignorant kid (age 19), but I think that the '07 Ducks would destroy the '77 Habs, given that the both teams have the same equipment.
I do not care that the '77 Habs had a hundred future Hall of Famers. The fact is that an average NHL player in those days was a lightyears behind the today's players, hence today's superstars would have been inhuman players in the 70's. That is a fact in my opinion.
I don't want to dishonor the 77 Habs in any way. I'm sure they were a magnificent team. I just hate it when people are trying to compare sports teams from different era, which IMO is stupid, impossible and waste of time. It's like asking who would've won in a war, the Roman legions or U.S Marine Corps. "Yeah but the Roman legions had THREE THOUSAND Hall of Famers". It just doesn't matter in the end.
I agree the AVERGAGE NHLer is alot better now than they were in 1977. However I believe the differenc ein top end players is far, far less. Lafleur is going to dominate in any era and so would Niedermeyer or Pronger.
The thing is the 1977 Habs did not have any average players. There were 17 NHL teams then and 8 WHA teams. That is 25 teams. The Habs were a virtual all-star team. They had the best goalie, the best forwards and the best defence. They had 3 Big time defencemen while the Ducks had 2. The Ducks had Pahlsson while the Habs had Gainey AND Jarvis. Imagine you took the 2007 Wings, Sens, Ducks and Sabres. Then took the best players from those teams and made up a team of the best of those teams (taking into consideration 2 scoring lines 1 checking line and some role players and 5 Defencemen) then you have the 1977/78 Habs.
The Habs did not really have average players and any they barely played.
Take an average 1977 team and an average 2007 team and I think the 2007 team wins rather handily. The 1977 Habs were not average they were practically an all-star team.