Bernie Federko

[finchster]

Many think that Federko got into the HHOF because he was lucky enough to be among the first offensive stars of the 1980s to retire, scoring hadn't yet come down, and nobody knew yet that the high levels of scoring in the 80s were basically an aberration.

Federko was elected in 2002 so there was plenty of time to digest his career.

I think Federko is an underrated as a player by many. St Louis never really went far in the playoffs sans one year, but Federko always seemed to do well in the playoffs, at least as well as he did in the regular season.

 

[Hardyvan123]

I am going to assume Duguay mainly played wing in the Canada Cup.

Some of the guys who were centers on the 1981 team were...

Gretzky
Trottier
Dionne
Perreault
Goring

Plus Duguay had that awesome hair going on

 

[VMBM]

I am going to assume Duguay mainly played wing in the Canada Cup.

Some of the guys who were centers on the 1981 team were...

Gretzky
Trottier
Dionne
Perreault
Goring

Didn't Perreault play on the top line with Gretzky (C?) and Lafleur (RW?)? So he would have been a LW in that tournament? And when he was injured, Dionne took his place...

But like I've 'always' said, if Canada had depth anywhere, it was at center - even in 1972 (Esposito, Clarke, Ratelle, Perreault, Mikita, P. Mahovlich...)