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Originally Posted by Suburban Rhythm
I do not understand though the idea that these things didn't occur before. Clarke, Howe, Hunter and Messier were dirty. All before the instigator. They didn't refrain from being dirty out of fear of retaliation. If they felt they gained an advantage by playing the way they did, they kept doing it.
Cooke, Tootoo, Kaleta, Ott etc do the same today-- it gives their team an edge. If the league called everything, and their antics continually left their teams SH, they'd either stop of be out of a job.
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First of all, Clarke, Howe, Hunter and Messier could play hockey and were obviously very good at it. Secondly, they played the way they did and backed it up. They took their lumps but they definitely dolled out more than they took because they were willing to back it up when the time came.