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Message: [QUOTE="Purduke, post: 4255174, member: 3568"] I think this is a fair reading. Grew up in the Philly area in the 60's and 70's just as the Flyers were turning the town into a hockey hotbed. The BSB were beloved everywhere within 25 miles of Billy Penn's statue -- and nowhere else. But hey, they were an expansion team built mostly with the rest of the league's rejects. If the rest of the league kept the Cournoyer's and Ratelle's and Richard's and gave you the Saleski's and Van Impe's you either figured out a different way to win or you accepted inconsequence on the ice. If the NHL (and NCAA) doesn't like the process then they can restrict it -- just like the NHL did (albeit some 30 years later). Money talked even back then and this is WBB after all -- so it's still trying to. [/QUOTE]