Happy Hour 12/5/17 - Could Wayne Gretzky Play In The NHL In 2017?

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🗓️ 5 December 2017

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Frankie poses a hypothetical to Julie: Could 1984 Wayne Gretzky make an NHL team in the year 2017? Frankie says that since the style of play was so different back then that Gretzky wouldn't even be able to make an NHL roster today. Ryan Whitney and Stu Feiner call in to tell Frankie how absolutely wrong his take is.

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0:08.8	Our number two Frankie Brillay just came in here and blew up the room with a
0:12.2	hockey hypothetical for J.S.B.
0:15.2	If you took, if you took Wayne Gretzky
0:18.8	as a, took him from 1984, the same way he played the same style of hockey he played
0:24.2	and dropped him in a 2017 NHL camp, would he make the team?
0:27.7	Frankie Brillay adamant that Wayne Gretzky could not play pro hockey in the year 2000.
0:31.8	Joe, what a joke of an art. He said he's not, he wasn't physical enough.
0:35.2	I don't know the sport hockey well enough, but I would venture to guess that he would be able to crack a squad.
0:39.6	Yeah, he could definitely crack a squad and the argument of not physical enough.
0:43.5	First of all, like, the NHL isn't like a goon league anymore.
0:46.6	If that's what his, he 100% would crack.
0:49.0	Yeah, if anything, it's trending more towards like finesse players, right?
0:52.5	I got to check his points in 84, but I mean, he's a great one.
0:55.7	I like he's going to fucking make his style of play.
1:00.1	Frankie would imagine to this league. It's not idiotic.
1:03.0	Oh, Frankie. That's really not idiotic.
1:05.0	Wayne Gretzky would not make an NHL team nowadays.
1:09.4	He would have to be born in the year 1998 and he'd have to grow up in this day and age to play with these guys.
1:16.1	They're playing much faster. They're playing much harder.
1:18.6	It's a lot. He was pretty fucking fast.
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