Deb's segments are typically brutal, but last night was top 5 of the season. I get that Horton was a great player but how many Devils fans were even alive or old enough to remember him playing? No one under 55 remembers watching him. Then when you factor in his stupidity in driving drunk and you're scratching your head at why Deb and the team was pushing this so hard. He didn't even play for the Devils.
Haha my eyes have gotten bad in the last few years. I read 55 as 35 and thought you said ''No one under 35 remember watching him'' and was gonna say ''Actually, no one under 43 remembers watching him, as he died 43 years ago in 1974''
I'm not old enough to remember him, I was born after he died, but not too long after.
The 68 year old fan I know, has described him as pretty much a defensive defenseman. He scored 500+ points but back in the 50's/60's/70's, that was nothing. Not that every defensive defenseman is useless, as we all know with Scott Stevens (who was not a one way defensive defenseman during the first half of his career). The scouting report I've got is that he was better than say Ben Lovejoy (who isn't these days?) but not Scott Stevens caliber. Hockey historians may try and argue that though.
It was a very random segment though, but I guess it's better than talking about Lou and the Leafs 4958495849 times. The intermission reports when Johnny Mac and Kirk Muller were coaching the Canes were always brutal. We'd have to hear about them our entire broadcast, even though they weren't part of our organization then. Hitler's mustache Dave Lewis too.
