Comments on: Did You Know? Random, high-scoring defensemen used to be the norm http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/10/did-you-know-random-high-scoring-defensemen-used-to-be-the-norm/ ProHockeyTalk on NBCSports.com Wed, 22 May 2013 13:15:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: davebabychreturns http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/10/did-you-know-random-high-scoring-defensemen-used-to-be-the-norm/comment-page-1/#comment-29241 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 18:00:09 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=63551#comment-29241 Yes he was.

]]> By: warpstonebc http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/10/did-you-know-random-high-scoring-defensemen-used-to-be-the-norm/comment-page-1/#comment-29181 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:33:30 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=63551#comment-29181 Ah Jeff Brown. He could certainly score both on and off the ice.

Poor Captain Kirk. :(

]]> By: danphipps01 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/10/did-you-know-random-high-scoring-defensemen-used-to-be-the-norm/comment-page-1/#comment-29162 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 06:16:12 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=63551#comment-29162 Man, I miss the glory days. These days it’s a surprise if ten players break 100 points and any D with more than fifty is “elite.” In the old days, every team had someone notching 100 except the absolute worst, fifty-goal scorers were far more common and top-tier defensemen notched seventy or eighty points routinely. And it’s not like goalies really suffered – in the nineties, Mario, Sakic, Jagr, Shanahan, Modano, Bure, Yzerman and two dozen other superstar forwards were all in their prime, Bourque, Leetch and Lidstrom ran the Norris competition and guys like Roy and Hasek STILL put up baffling, ridiculous numbers.

It seems like the game’s gotten a lot… smaller, since then. The stars aren’t as glorious, the news is always about how there’s been yet another nightly batch of concussions because nobody can seem to bring themselves to hit a man cleanly and the disciplinarians hired to fix it don’t seem to have even the faintest idea how. Hockey’s not quite what it used to be. =/

]]> By: pavelfitzgerald http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/2012/01/10/did-you-know-random-high-scoring-defensemen-used-to-be-the-norm/comment-page-1/#comment-29130 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:21:42 +0000 http://prohockeytalk.nbcsports.com/?p=63551#comment-29130 Dave Babych was a beauty

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