Dennis Bonvie
Registered User
Lots of these posts sound like things that were said about the Summit Series before it occurred.
Always felt like the top players that jumped to the WHA not only went for more money, but for easy money. Their level of play was a notch lower, hence everyone's level was lower. I'm not so sure a highly motivated championship WHA team with nothing to lose and everything to gain would have been embarrassed by the dynasty Canadiens. Not any more so than other high level NHL teams.
Saw a number of exhibition games where the Whalers handled NHL teams, and they were not the class of the WHA at that point. But the level of play was higher than normal because they had something to prove.
Always felt like the top players that jumped to the WHA not only went for more money, but for easy money. Their level of play was a notch lower, hence everyone's level was lower. I'm not so sure a highly motivated championship WHA team with nothing to lose and everything to gain would have been embarrassed by the dynasty Canadiens. Not any more so than other high level NHL teams.
Saw a number of exhibition games where the Whalers handled NHL teams, and they were not the class of the WHA at that point. But the level of play was higher than normal because they had something to prove.