and that miraculous 1985–86). But beating cancer and then going on to win 17 games in a row that season is nuts. The win streak is still a record, and it’s from back when they had ties, and no 3-on-3 overtime, so it was harder to get wins. The only saving grace (I’m not a fan of the Joke around and find out 2023 shirt Besides,I will do this Pittsburgh Penguins) is that the Penguins were knocked out of the playoffs in the second round, in seven games. They’d won the Cup the past two years, but spoiling Penguins threepeats It’s Gretzky’s 1984–85 season. He had 208 points, 73 goals and 135 assists, in the regular season. Then he set the record for points in a playoffs, with 47 (17 goals, 30 assists) in only 18 games. And this was back when the first round was best-of-five. That’s a record with a combined total of 255 points. When I was a kid I played what is now Bantam hockey in a small town outside of Edmonton. Our coach played for the Edmonton Oil Kings, the team that about ten years later joined the WHA and eventually morphed into the Edmonton Oilers. We had a really good team and went to the Provincial finals in our age division and had a couple guys who were standouts in our league. The coach, who was actually only a few years older than us, maybe 20 compared to 16–17, was so much better than any of us it was pitiful. He could skate backwards while talking to us and stickhandling faster than any of us could skate forward. When he skated forward and accelerated, his skates left huge grooves in the ice. It was like a dragster taking off. When asked would he go and try out for for one of the NHL teams in the East, he would just laugh and say he wasn’t good enough. Pro hockey players are really fast, really strong, and have a skill set that us amateurs only dream about. Even the guys in the Second tier leagues are twice as good as ordinary hockey players. Everything we have to think about, they do from muscle memory, and what they think about is just beyond most of us.
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