Sorry but where are you getting this no slapshots rule from? Honestly I have never heard of it....
Do you want to know where I get my info from, Ultimate Hockey, Total Hockey, the Hockey News, and well a variety of other sources who apparently know more than you do as they do it for a living.
Benton Fraser..............
Yep that's where I get my hockey history information too...I also go to hockeydb.com, and a very Large hard cover "20th Century Hockey Chronicle"...there are a number of books I have too numerous too mention......
With regards to the forward passing, anyone who knows hockey would tell you that forward passing was first allowed in 1929-30 in order to prop up sagging goal totals. Now you state that Conacher is a lesser hockey player because he played without forward passing, yet you ignore the fact that Conacher played from 1929/30 to 1941... an era that if you knew anything featured forward passing.... so that arguement falls flat on its face.
once again i would like to ask you for a link rquesting you for a rule that was in place in the NHL that stated players were not allowed to take slap shots....
Read post #877 of this thread.......
The no masks is the worst arguement that you have going for you. In this draft when ranking the teams one has to think that all the players are playing with the same equipment, and I decided to make that modern equipment. I am drafting players, not differnt companies that produce hockey equipment.
Well NOW he tells me....sheesh....why didn't you tell me that in the first place....Now I will have to change my strategy for drafting the hockey players.........I didn't know we had to ASSUME that all the players in our draft are playing with the same equipment...ok....that sort of helps me see why you rank the players and the teams the way that you do.......
Prime examples my ass.
Hey buddy......If I stop using "Capiche" then you better stop saying "ass" too ok. 
You basically said he was a bad player when you said how he would get destroyed by players of today. How is that not saying he is a bad player. How are they no match for the players of today. Your arguements, are well as have been noted by more than one poster weak at best, and you then rely on saying there is a personal bias when the teams were ranked.
Well I didn't mean to use Teeder Kennedy specifically.....I was only using a player from his Era when he would have to go up against my GIANTS on Defence who are the biggest mothers in our Entire League........You remember SPACE JAM with Michael Jordan....Jordan goes up against a team of Giants called the "MONSTARS"....that's the knick-name of my players on defence.....the "MONSTARS".......heh heh heh
The travel thing and jetlag arguement is fair I suspose, but I wonder how big of an effect there is with jetlag when you consider that there is a three hour time difference between EST and PST.... now if you are saying that the players of today are tough players because they are able to have this horrible jetlag of a a three hour max differnce then I sort of think you are in for a bad arguement.
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More games are played today but in more time. It wasn't as though hockey used to start in september and end in june.... less games in less time still means that the players would have the same time differential between games......
They have to go through more rounds of hockey in today's NHL playoffs....It's a more gruelling marathon for those players today compared to the past when all they would have to do was win two rounds of hockey and then they would win the Stanley Cup..........
You did basically say they were horrible players.....
Umm.......no I didn't......again I said the greats from the past were greats in their day but greats from the past are no contest for the greats of today.
- I don't think I know more than everyone, but it appears when you select Marty McSorley and Steve Smith I know more than you.
Well I drafted those two guys cause my forwards were on the small side and I needed to get some toughness up front so I figured if I was going to get myself a team enforcer then at least try and get someone who also played both as a forward and a defenceman like Marty McSorley was.......now if Marty McSorley is good enough to be an enforcer for those Dynasty Edmonton Oiler teams OR any hockey club that has Wayne Gretzky playing on it then he is certainly good enough to play on my hockey club.......
Steve Smith I was extremely happy with considering he was one of my last selections in this draft and most of the better defencemen up to that point had already been selected...I concentrated more in the early part of the draft on selecting premier forwards with Stanley Cup winning experience...it's why I ended up with a total of SEVEN Conn Smythe trophy winners on my team....Steve Smith also won Stanleys in Edmonton and at best he was my #6 defencemen...my top 4 guys on the blueline were going to get 85-90% of the ice time and the remaining 10-to-15% was going to my #5 and #6 guys on the blueline which included Steve Smith........McSorley would sit out most of my games...we all had one extra forward...and one extra defender...and so I used my extra forward to select an enforcer like McSorely...al the great teams had at least ONE on their hockey club.......the Montreal Canadiens had John Ferguson and that helped the rest of the team there in Montreal play better...that's what McSorley would to to my forwards who were on the smallish side.
- I have never seen the players day in and day out. Who am I to make an accurate judgement of a player in comparison to another player? Wait doesn't this contradict your previous point about me thinking that I know more than everyone else where I have admitted that I don't know everything about a certain player who for obvious reasons I have never been able to see day in and day out.
- Your on hockeys future, do you except people who attempt to judge whether Crosby will be the next lemieux to know much about the history of hockey. Honestly I don't see what is wrong with that statement.... especially when you stated the only reason that the old guys selected these players are because they want to remind themselves ofthe glory days or something to that effect
I'm only talking about the players that were selected in our draft........lets not be pulling straws from a hat now ok?
So players of yesteryear were all fat and out of shape that is your arguement. Contrary to popular belief not ever NHL player today is the model of physical fitness..... sorry but there is something to be said for natural tallent, and you appear to think that these players were all untallented, fat, horrible players, an assessment that I do find ignorant because it shows an inability to look at the past with the least bit of appreciation.
I didn't say they were ALL fat HOWEVER since you do bring it up Turk Broda was always critisized for being not only out-of-shape but as well he was a ROLEY POLEY of a GOALIE....that guys was fat yes.......others may not have been "Fat" but they were however not as great-a-shape overall to the modern day players of the NHL.
Cheers!
Ya right..........my players are playing with the mask because that is the way they played their hockey when they were in the prime of their hockey careers..........let's not be pulling straws from mid air now and make up the rules as we go along.........what's next?.....you're going to tell us that there's no SLAPSHOTS allowed in our Hockey League..........heh heh heh.........ya ok.
