1979-80 Season

[The Panther]

I disagree with this guy's thesis, but indeed the 1979-80 season was quite interesting for all the obvious reasons, most summarized in the video:


Although 1979-80 is before my memories, I have always thought of it as sort-of the start of the "modern" era of hockey. I say this mainly because my club (Edmonton) joined the NHL, but you can look at it also as a very stable League thenceforth (21 clubs from 1979 to 1991), and of course the beginning of players like Messier, Bourque, and Gretzky, who had very long careers.

It remains bizarre that those guys' career slightly overlapped with Keon, Howe, and Mikita...

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[Dingo]

The beginning of the end for dinosaur hockey.

Gretzky went on to be the greatest, everyone else in that top 10, with the exception of Dionne, was totally irrelevant to league scoring by their thirtieth birthdays... at the LATEST.

Really cool that Gordie and Hull were there.

edit - entire top 20, all in their twenties, except Gretzky, all obsolete, except Dionne, and a good excuse for Bossy, by 30.

 

[carjackmalone]

And that Stoughton ,Gare,and simmer split the goal scoring title