Word: nhl
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dadswell, incidently, is now the second goalie on the NHL's leading team, the Calgary Flames. He recently posted an 8-2 victory over the Washington Capitals, in which he stopped 28 of 30 shots...
...people like Dave Semenko, Brown, Ed Hospodar and Chris Nilan are fast becoming dinosaurs in the NHL. The silent majority of fans who want to watch goal-scoring instead of fisticuffs know it. Coaches who knowingly keep a defensive liability on their roster are being burned...
These instances show what a liability a goon can be to a team. But goons as a whole are a liability to the NHL. The league's image is tarnished when a particularly vicious cheap shot is leveled against a defenseless player...
Perhaps the NHL powers-that-be will realize that while enforcers are around. NHL play will always be inferior to that of any other league in the world...
After all, how did a rag-tag bunch of college hockey players defeat the Soviets in 1980 when the NHL. All-Stars couldn...