Canadiens1958
Registered User
Waffling
Try sticking to specifics - which you obviously cannot handle since you throw around generalities. Your are more than welcome to breakdown any teams third/fourth lines from any era in question. The challenge has been out there for days and no one has stepped up.
If you had bothered to read previous posts you would see that I broke down teams like the Leafs, Blues, Rangers looking at center depth - 3 or 4 deep from the seventies which you simply do not have on todays average teams.
Along with the forced parity and teams having to pick and choose what talent they can keep and what they have to move (see Chicago current edition), picking one team from one year Pittsburgh in this case, when we are talking over a period of years and the entire league is being shortsighted at best and intellectually dishonest at worst, take your pick but either way it does not further your point that the 3rd and 4th lines in the 70's would be top line players on any NHL teams today.
Further to that point, how about talking about an average 70's team like Buffalo or St. Louis or even Toronto instead of always cherry picking Montreal, Philly or Boston in their best years.
The bottom line is that the overall talent level ie. average player from the 70's to today has gone up considerably in terms of talent.
This has happened not only due to the influx of talent from areas that the NHL never tapped into before but also the rise of elite amateur programs especially after Canada had that horrible performance at the world Jr's in the late 80's but it was already happening in selected areas like Detroit which produced Pat Lafontaine in the early 80's.
Try sticking to specifics - which you obviously cannot handle since you throw around generalities. Your are more than welcome to breakdown any teams third/fourth lines from any era in question. The challenge has been out there for days and no one has stepped up.
If you had bothered to read previous posts you would see that I broke down teams like the Leafs, Blues, Rangers looking at center depth - 3 or 4 deep from the seventies which you simply do not have on todays average teams.