when hockey was fun

[HanSolo]

The best thing that has happened in hockey was doing away with preplanned fights

That's the last guy on Earth who is going to agree with you

 

[Beukeboom]

Are you not having fun? I'm having fun. Everything is so fast!

Is Fast and the Furious 8 a better action movie than Terminator 2 just because it's faster? Are Dragonforce a better metal band than Iron Maiden?

Fast doesn't have to be better.

 

[DFC]

Hockey's fun whenever your favorite team is winning.

 

[MPGA]

Hockey's fun whenever your favorite team is winning.

I wonder what that is like...

 

[King In The North]

Do some of you guys still use VHS?

 

[Billy Kvcmu]

Hockey was fun when Florida was relevant
Right?

 

[Zippgunn]

For me hockey was fun when the crazy owner of the Seals had them paint their skates white. They still sucked but they had white skates...

 

[Meatball]

Still fun because I want to keep learning about the game.

 

[Based Anime Fan]

For me hockey was fun when the crazy owner of the Seals had them paint their skates white. They still sucked but they had white skates...

Don't forget the green skates with yellow laces.

 

[MadLuke]

top players didn't change teams as often.

In the cap era I am not sure top players change teams more often than the in late 70/80s/90s era you are referring too.

True that Yzerman/Sakic/Lidstrom stayed with the same team and Bourque/Modanno/Brodeur for almost all of their career, but Roy, Hasek, Gretkzy, Messier, Lafleur, Coffey, Gilmour, Oates, Hawerchuck, Kurri, Francis, Hull, Robitaille, Savard, MacInnis, Shanahan, Trottier, Fedorov, Leetch, Selanne, Chelios, Stevens, Lindros, Bure, Jagr all changed team some quite often.

Since 2005 the top players have been (not necessarily in an ranked order)

Ovechkin/Backstrom
Crosby/Malkin
Thorton
The Sedins
Staal
Getzlaf/Perry
Zettterberg/Datsyuk
Kane/Toews/Keith
Kopitar/Doughty
Bergeron/Marchand/Chara
Stamkos
Giroux
Price/Lundqvist/Luongo/Holtby/Rinne


Many of them have been one team players of all the Hart trophy winners after Thorton in 2005-2006, only Hall was traded in is career I think and Thornton is still with San-Jose.

Some top player still in there prime move (Taylor Hall, Subban/Weber, Tavares) but is it more frequent now than in the 80s/90s when mega trade for a Lindros/Gretzky happened and a giant 10 players Flame/Leafs deal with a Gilmour involved or a Roy changed team ?

 

[MadLuke]

That was the sleep aid dead puck era

Not yet imo (that panthers team beating the 360 goals penguins probably helped spreading it), it start in 96-97 at the soonest but it really kicked in 97-98.

95-96 was not yet DPE or at least a pause in it, 3.14 goal a game by team was still a lot more than this year or 2005-2006. The Red Wings and Avalanche were scoring 4 goal a game, pens 362 goals.

Mario had 161 points in just 70 games, was scoring still one goal a game, even if we removed a Lemieux team anomaly

Sakic 120pts,
Forsberg 116
Lindros 115
Kariya/selanne: 108
Mogilny / Federov: 107
Weight: 104
Gretzky: 102

Lot of 90 points and more scorer that year.

 

[Atas2000]

Hockey is more fun now than it’s ever been

Fun like it's to be made fun of.

 

[Atas2000]

People always argue about when hockey was best but just like almost anything, the most fund era is whatever era occured in your youth

If you have an at least somewhat analytic mind you should be able to have abstract comprehensions. The scheme you describe is only true for a very simple mind.

 

[cowboy82nd]

Iron

Is Fast and the Furious 8 a better action movie than Terminator 2 just because it's faster? Are Dragonforce a better metal band than Iron Maiden?

Fast doesn't have to be better.

Iron Maiden is not metal to me. I would consider them more rock than metal. JMO

 

[sabremike]

Hockey stopped being fun around 3:45pm on April 13th, 1997.

 

[Cotton]

The NHL isnt hockey, they play the NHL's own money driven version of hockey, which is unskilled and butter soft as compared to what it was 10, 15, 25 years ago.

It's terrible whats happening to the league. And it's even worse that there are enough newer fans around who didnt experience it that they try and argue that today's game is better in any way.

 

[mashedpotato]

It's more fun now than it was before.

If you've got speed and skill, you're not worried about being buried in the corner or getting clipped in the neutral zone. There's no punishing battles at the front of the net.

Just move around and score when you've got the puck.

 

[razorsedge]

In the cap era I am not sure top players change teams more often than the in late 70/80s/90s era you are referring too.

True that Yzerman/Sakic/Lidstrom stayed with the same team and Bourque/Modanno/Brodeur for almost all is career, but Roy, Hasek, Gretkzy, Messier, Lafleur, Coffey, Gilmour, Oates, Hawerchuck, Kurri, Francis, Hull, Robitaille, Savard, MacInnis, Shanahan, Trottier, Fedorov, Leetch, Selanne, Chelios, Stevens, Lindros, Bure, Jagr all changed team some quite often.

Since 2005 the top players have been (not necessarily in an ranked order)

Ovechkin/Backstrom
Crosby/Malkin
Thorton
The Sedins
Staal
Getzlaf/Perry
Zettterberg/Datsyuk
Kane/Toews/Keith
Kopitar/Doughty
Bergeron/Marchand/Chara
Stamkos
Giroux
Price/Lundqvist/Luongo/Holtby/Rinne


Many of them have been one team players of all the Hart trophy winners after Thorton in 2005-2006, ony Hall was traded in is career I think and Thornton is still with San-Jose.

Some top player still in there prime move (Taylor Hall, Subban/Weber, Tavares) but is it more frequent now than in the 80s/90s when mega trade for a Lindros/Gretzky happened and a giant 10 players Flame/Leafs deal with a Gilmour involved or a Roy changed team ?

You're right, I stand corrected.

Maybe it was just the Rock 'em Sock 'em videos that were more fun to watch back then. When head shots, and face punching were encouraged.

 

[Spearmint Rhino]

Everything is cyclic in the NHL, teams try and copy success and the flavour of the day is speed and skill but you are also seeing lots of borderline hits as players try and find the line. There's lots of easy targets who have forgotten the fundamentals of protecting themselves and think they are playing in all-star games. Once a physical team learns to find the balance to be able to hurt/intimidate players legally and can keep up with the pace and skill they will have success and will be the new flavour of the day

That's my hope anyways

 

[Rygu]

It's still sort of fun

Just not as fun as 10, 20, 30, 40 or 50 years ago.

 

[SotasicA]

I thought this thread was about line brawls.

Nothing like a good, fun night of fights between two heated rivals.

 

[member 157595]

god damn I love those old Panthers unis.

 

[Cursed Lemon]

The game is finally getting fast again.

However, it's still kind of low intensity, coming from former eras of pure hatred.

 

[Zippgunn]

Don't forget the green skates with yellow laces.

...well at least when the puck hit a green skate the trainer didn't have to immediately daub a bunch of white shoe polish on it. Charlie Simmer once said that his skates weighed twice as much at the end of the season than they did at the beginning....

 

[ErrantShepherd]

Hockey was fun when Florida was relevant
Right?

Hockey is always fun when your own team is relevant.

Seriously though, the tempo of play, the skill on display is all way better than it was years ago. The trap and overly defensive hockey was never all that fun at all, unless your team happened to find some success with it... but it made the games dull and hard to watch.