billybudd
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- Feb 1, 2012
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Enforcers are relic at this point. If you can't roll four lines in the NHL you are dead in the water when the playoffs come. Sid and Geno have been abused since day 1 to present and Godard, Big Mac, Laraque never stopped it. You're remembering things incorrectly if you think there was ever a time when Sid wasn't targeted.
They were targeted. Then the guy in question would learn not to do that and the targeting would cease.
Furthermore, the idea that playoff teams don't carry enforcers won't get any more true no matter how many times you repeat it. Every playoff team other than us, the Red Wings and the Wild carried at least one, including all four conference finalists.
League-wide there are more "enforcers" on NHL only deals than there are teams.