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I got to see a lot of Neely. He was a great player. As I said, I don't dispute the guy had HOF talent.
So we should just ignore stats altogether then? Sorry man, but if you do this then the HOF has no meaning.
Yes, he hit and he fought. He was multidimensional but his career was so short that he wasn't really able to get any kind of reasonable totals. He's so far behind the average HOFer that he sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm sorry that you're upset and angry (I'm just going to ignore your XBox remarks) but Neely is one of the weakest inductions ever and I'm not alone in believing this. His name always comes up whenever questionable guys are left out. The HOF would've been better off just leaving him out and saved themselves some credibility.
Neely was a great player with tons of heart and Bruins fans love him passionately. That's what jersey retirements are for.
Never said that, I said your argument is all stats and not the big picture.
You claim to have watched him alot but you make statements in effect that you did not.
1) You overwhelmingly hand OT the credit for the goals Neely scored. Ignoring that Neely's best years were before OT ever got to Boston and was a deadly sniper in his own right.
2) You insinuate his best attributes were hitting and fighting while undermining his scoring prowess in the face of stats given to you.
3) You claim Neely could be suckered into bad penalties and could be throw off his game like a rookie.
I am sure there is more stuff you said proving you didn't watch much of him but I don't feel like going back from last week. I was right to walk away from this argument last week, time to do it again.