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Post by NoShear on Nov 14, 2023 22:05:06 GMT
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Post by Andrea Doria on Nov 16, 2023 20:47:25 GMT
I haven't seen "The Deadliest Season," but I read Fredrick Backman's "Beartown" last year which HBO has turned into a series. It was a whole new world to me, but I did learn how dangerous it could be.
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Post by intrepid37 on Nov 16, 2023 21:40:36 GMT
The Deadliest Season had its genesis in the controversy wrought by the 1970's Philadelphia Flyers team which practiced extraordinary violence as a norm throughout the NHL cities. While historical, it no longer is a current situation. The hue and cry over this era in hockey led to massive reform by the league to address it.
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Post by NoShear on Nov 17, 2023 0:51:17 GMT
The Deadliest Season had its genesis in the controversy wrought by the 1970's Philadelphia Flyers team which practiced extraordinary violence as a norm throughout the NHL cities. While historical, it no longer is a current situation. The hue and cry over this era in hockey led to massive reform by the league to address it. Thank you for adding your insight to my post, intrepid37... The Philadelphia Flyers circus of the 1970s stemmed from the early expansion years of the team who made it into, I think, the 1968/69 post season only to find themselves shoved around, so management began recruiting proverbial muscle for their rosters. An earlier incident that same season gave a glimpse into the rise of violence to come in the next decade - Bobby Hull already was playing with a broken jaw when:  Similar to the late 1960s Flyers, a Montreal Canadians squad had been getting roughed up prior to John Ferguson being called up. He dropped his gloves about 11 seconds into his first rotation. Someone once wrote of enforcers such as Ferguson, who could also contribute goals, that there would always be a place in the NHL for a John Ferguson. |
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Post by NoShear on Nov 18, 2023 19:33:43 GMT
I haven't seen "The Deadliest Season," but I read Fredrick Backman's "Beartown" last year which HBO has turned into a series. It was a whole new world to me, but I did learn how dangerous it could be.
Andrea Doria, I wondered if this story might have been influenced by the news of a hockey dad who killed his son's coach, but the Swedish setting of both BJORNSTAD and its author negated that thought. |
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