Ovechkin Milestone Thread - Countdown to 894 (Continued)

[Toby91ca]

No one has Gretzky's cheat code. They just being kicked out from behind the net (and Gretzky wasn't, that's why he has more assists than anyone has points - it's not that hard to understand).

Apologies....stupid me, I was being dumb and thinking Gretzky was racking up assists because he was really good.....now that I've seen your videos, I understand it's simply because no one else had the cheat code.

 

[tarheelhockey]

It wasn't in NHL. In NHL Gretzky was protected and touching him was prohibited. His bodyguards didn't care about whether hits were clean or not, they just punched to the face.

Suter didn’t care about Gretzky’s bodyguards and he would gladly exchange a major penalty for taking Gretzky off a division rival’s roster. He played the Kings 6 times that year and didn’t even get involved in a fight, despite a bunch of brawls involving the 4th line goons on both teams.

The hit came in 1991, when goons fought goons and the idea of protecting the stars with a deterrent was becoming a cliche memory. Suter took out Gretzky and nothing happened, Adam Graves took out Lemieux and nothing happened, just a few years later we had Lindros and for that matter Kariya getting taken out by Suter once again. Anyone beat Suter to a pulp over that one? Did he really care if they tried?

 

[Firsov99]

There was a 10-7 game last year and one a couple years ago as well

Are you trying to imply that this type of scores is as common today?

 

[Golden_Jet]

Doesn't count, Was an empty net.

Don't give me the excuse Forsberg was in net either

Net was empty

Not sure which game you watched, but he was definitely in the net.

 

[Toby91ca]

Are you trying to imply that this type of scores is as common today?

No, pointing out that there have been some high scoring games recently. Everyone knows scoring was higher during certain time periods, it’s not up for debate so it sure why evidence is being shown