WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.439 Welcome to the Deep Dive. We are so incredibly 00:00:02.439 --> 00:00:04.139 glad you're here joining us today. Absolutely. 00:00:04.259 --> 00:00:06.740 It's great to be here. And, you know, usually 00:00:06.740 --> 00:00:08.660 we are jumping across all sorts of different 00:00:08.660 --> 00:00:10.880 articles, our research papers, maybe some books. 00:00:11.039 --> 00:00:13.839 Right. But today we are doing something a little 00:00:13.839 --> 00:00:16.039 bit different. We are pulling all of our insights 00:00:16.039 --> 00:00:20.449 from just one. single, incredibly comprehensive 00:00:20.449 --> 00:00:24.070 source. Just one. Yeah, just one. It's a detailed 00:00:24.070 --> 00:00:27.750 Wikipedia article breaking down the 1982 to 1983 00:00:27.750 --> 00:00:31.170 National Hockey League season. And honestly, 00:00:31.329 --> 00:00:33.229 if you're looking for the ultimate breakdown 00:00:33.229 --> 00:00:35.490 of the Wayne Gretzky records, the Islanders dynasty 00:00:35.490 --> 00:00:38.130 and NHL history, this is exactly what you want. 00:00:38.380 --> 00:00:40.820 It really is. And for those of you listening 00:00:40.820 --> 00:00:43.219 who might be wondering why we are dedicating 00:00:43.219 --> 00:00:46.299 an entire deep dive to one specific 80 game stretch 00:00:46.299 --> 00:00:48.539 of hockey from over 40 years ago. Right. Like 00:00:48.539 --> 00:00:51.799 why this specific year? Exactly. Because this 00:00:51.799 --> 00:00:54.259 particular season is basically the ultimate masterclass 00:00:54.259 --> 00:00:56.820 in how eras transition. If you want to understand 00:00:56.820 --> 00:00:59.820 how massive paradigm shifts happen, whether that 00:00:59.820 --> 00:01:02.399 is in the sports world, a corporate business 00:01:02.399 --> 00:01:05.939 environment or just in broader culture. This 00:01:05.939 --> 00:01:08.879 season is the perfect case study. It's the blueprint. 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:12.019 It really is. It marks the second longest period 00:01:12.019 --> 00:01:15.079 of stability in lead history, which is surpassed 00:01:15.079 --> 00:01:18.299 only by the original six era. And that stability 00:01:18.299 --> 00:01:22.049 begins. right after the franchise shifts of this 00:01:22.049 --> 00:01:24.750 very season. So our mission today is to figure 00:01:24.750 --> 00:01:27.950 out why this exact moment in time was such a 00:01:27.950 --> 00:01:30.189 massive turning point. Because when you look 00:01:30.189 --> 00:01:32.650 at the facts, it really was the perfect storm. 00:01:32.849 --> 00:01:35.030 A total collision of past and future. Right. 00:01:35.129 --> 00:01:36.709 You have this dramatic changing of the guard 00:01:36.709 --> 00:01:38.969 where the absolute legends of the old days finally 00:01:38.969 --> 00:01:41.750 step away. You have some genuinely bizarre safety 00:01:41.750 --> 00:01:44.090 and uniform changes that literally change the 00:01:44.090 --> 00:01:45.870 physical look of the game. Oh, the uniforms. 00:01:46.129 --> 00:01:48.689 We will get to those, believe me. And maybe... 00:01:48.680 --> 00:01:50.939 Maybe most excitingly, you have an unstoppable, 00:01:51.299 --> 00:01:54.680 record -breaking offensive machine running headfirst 00:01:54.680 --> 00:01:57.819 into an immovable dynasty. It's a textbook example 00:01:57.819 --> 00:02:00.260 of what happens when raw, disruptive innovation 00:02:00.260 --> 00:02:03.819 collides with an entrenched, battle -tested establishment. 00:02:04.400 --> 00:02:07.219 Exactly. So let's start with that changing of 00:02:07.219 --> 00:02:09.039 the guard because this brings up a fascinating 00:02:09.039 --> 00:02:11.960 piece of trivia from our source. Oh, the original 00:02:11.960 --> 00:02:15.580 six connection. Yes. This 82 -83 season marked 00:02:15.580 --> 00:02:19.199 the absolute final end of the original six era's 00:02:19.199 --> 00:02:22.080 on ice presence. Which is wild to think about. 00:02:22.219 --> 00:02:25.139 Right. Prior to the great expansion of the league, 00:02:25.219 --> 00:02:27.479 there were just those six foundational teams 00:02:27.479 --> 00:02:31.500 and the very last remaining players who actually 00:02:31.500 --> 00:02:35.629 played in that. gritty pre -expansion era, they 00:02:35.629 --> 00:02:38.969 all retired after this exact season. We are talking 00:02:38.969 --> 00:02:41.770 about Carol Vedness, Serge Savard, and Wayne 00:02:41.770 --> 00:02:44.509 Cashman. And it's a profound shift. You have 00:02:44.509 --> 00:02:46.389 to realize what the original six represented 00:02:46.389 --> 00:02:49.330 to the sport. Smaller, it was more intimate, 00:02:49.430 --> 00:02:52.250 and incredibly brutal. Oh, absolutely. Everyone 00:02:52.250 --> 00:02:54.409 knew everyone, and the rivalries were deep -seated. 00:02:54.430 --> 00:02:56.830 So those retiring players, they were the last 00:02:56.830 --> 00:02:59.409 living link on the ice to that foundational bedrock. 00:02:59.530 --> 00:03:01.930 The end of an epoch. Truly. And it's fitting 00:03:01.930 --> 00:03:03.949 that Wayne Cashman was the absolute last one 00:03:03.949 --> 00:03:05.590 to hang up his skate. Because of how his season 00:03:05.590 --> 00:03:08.330 ended, right? Right. His final run ended when 00:03:08.330 --> 00:03:10.270 the Boston Bruins lost in the Wales Conference 00:03:10.270 --> 00:03:13.449 Finals. When he stepped off the ice for the final 00:03:13.449 --> 00:03:16.750 time, an entire era of professional hockey officially 00:03:16.750 --> 00:03:19.569 closed. You could almost hear the door shutting. 00:03:19.889 --> 00:03:22.629 Exactly. OK, let's unpack this, because while 00:03:22.629 --> 00:03:25.150 the prestigious old guard is gracefully exiting 00:03:25.150 --> 00:03:28.409 stage left, the league itself is dealing with 00:03:28.409 --> 00:03:31.310 some awkward growing pains. Awkward is one word 00:03:31.310 --> 00:03:33.330 for it. Yeah, especially when it comes to its 00:03:33.330 --> 00:03:36.900 visual identity. our source highlights a genuinely 00:03:36.900 --> 00:03:40.000 quirky aesthetic change right at the end of this 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.360 season the nhl actually had to step in and officially 00:03:43.360 --> 00:03:47.840 ban long pants ah the infamous long pants i mean 00:03:47.840 --> 00:03:50.360 can we just pause and picture this you have guys 00:03:50.360 --> 00:03:53.379 playing arguably the most violent high -speed 00:03:53.379 --> 00:03:55.960 collision sport on earth right and for a brief 00:03:55.960 --> 00:03:58.120 moment the philadelphia flyers and the hartford 00:03:58.120 --> 00:03:59.759 whalers are out there looking like they're wearing 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.759 track pants disco trousers on ice yes they had 00:04:02.759 --> 00:04:04.759 been experimenting with these full -length pants 00:04:04.759 --> 00:04:06.979 instead of the traditional short hockey pants 00:04:06.979 --> 00:04:10.080 and socks but the league completely banned them 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:12.240 at the end of the year due to player safety concerns 00:04:12.240 --> 00:04:15.879 naturally naturally what's fascinating here is 00:04:15.879 --> 00:04:19.410 how these two seemingly unrelated elements The 00:04:19.410 --> 00:04:21.910 retirement of the last original six players and 00:04:21.910 --> 00:04:24.389 the banning of these experimental uniform choices 00:04:24.389 --> 00:04:27.790 really go hand in hand. How so? Well, they both 00:04:27.790 --> 00:04:31.589 symbolize the NHL standardizing and modernizing 00:04:31.589 --> 00:04:35.230 its identity. The Wild West days of holding on 00:04:35.230 --> 00:04:38.370 to the ancient past or trying out entirely untested 00:04:38.370 --> 00:04:42.660 gear just to stand out, they were ending. Think 00:04:42.660 --> 00:04:45.100 of it like a scrappy startup finally going corporate 00:04:45.100 --> 00:04:47.779 and instituting a dress code. They were consolidating 00:04:47.779 --> 00:04:50.220 their image for a new era. And they couldn't 00:04:50.220 --> 00:04:52.500 have players slipping all over the ice in synthetic 00:04:52.500 --> 00:04:54.819 long pants. Definitely not. And that corporate 00:04:54.819 --> 00:04:57.199 consolidation wasn't just happening with uniforms. 00:04:57.240 --> 00:04:59.480 It was happening with the literal map of the 00:04:59.480 --> 00:05:02.579 league. The geographical chaos right before this 00:05:02.579 --> 00:05:05.519 season started was intense. Massive shifts. Yeah. 00:05:05.560 --> 00:05:07.839 You had the Colorado Rockies packing up and moving 00:05:07.839 --> 00:05:10.199 entirely across the country to East Rutherford, 00:05:10.220 --> 00:05:12.579 New Jersey. Right, to become the New Jersey Devils. 00:05:12.579 --> 00:05:14.959 Exactly, which forced a whole domino effect. 00:05:15.220 --> 00:05:16.800 Because you can't just drop a team on the East 00:05:16.800 --> 00:05:19.259 Coast without rebalancing the divisions. Right. 00:05:19.920 --> 00:05:22.199 To make room for the Devils in the Patrick Division, 00:05:22.540 --> 00:05:25.379 the league forced the Winnipeg Jets to leave 00:05:25.379 --> 00:05:28.139 the Norris Division and move into the Smythe 00:05:28.139 --> 00:05:31.519 Division to take Colorado's old spot. And the 00:05:31.519 --> 00:05:33.759 research points out the Jets were incredibly 00:05:33.759 --> 00:05:36.259 reluctant about this. Oh, they hated it. I wouldn't 00:05:36.259 --> 00:05:38.410 blame them. You were suddenly forced to travel 00:05:38.410 --> 00:05:40.750 significantly longer routes to the West Coast, 00:05:40.889 --> 00:05:44.149 all because a team a thousand miles away decided 00:05:44.149 --> 00:05:47.370 to pack up for New Jersey. It's brutal for travel. 00:05:47.490 --> 00:05:50.759 Yeah. But as crazy as that is, it pales in comparison 00:05:50.759 --> 00:05:53.660 to the Saskatoon near miss. Oh, this is a great 00:05:53.660 --> 00:05:55.240 story. It's like something out of a movie. A 00:05:55.240 --> 00:05:57.399 guy named Wild Bill Hunter, which incredible 00:05:57.399 --> 00:06:00.160 name. He actually tried to purchase the St. Louis 00:06:00.160 --> 00:06:03.860 Blues. And his explicit intention was to move 00:06:03.860 --> 00:06:06.639 the entire franchise to Saskatoon. Right up to 00:06:06.639 --> 00:06:09.610 Saskatchewan. Yeah. But the NHL stepped in, completely 00:06:09.610 --> 00:06:11.930 blocked the sale and the relocation, and the 00:06:11.930 --> 00:06:15.129 team was instead sold to Harry Orness. Who kept 00:06:15.129 --> 00:06:17.850 them in St. Louis. And to really understand this, 00:06:17.990 --> 00:06:20.430 you have to look at the league's broader strategy. 00:06:20.930 --> 00:06:24.350 At this exact moment, they are trying to secure 00:06:24.350 --> 00:06:27.810 major national television deals in the U .S. 00:06:27.810 --> 00:06:30.389 Right. They need the big markets. Exactly. Saskatoon 00:06:30.389 --> 00:06:33.420 is a passionate hockey market, no doubt. but 00:06:33.420 --> 00:06:35.740 it does not offer the corporate footprint of 00:06:35.740 --> 00:06:38.220 St. Louis. Yeah, the media market size just isn't 00:06:38.220 --> 00:06:41.060 there. So by blocking the move to Saskatoon and 00:06:41.060 --> 00:06:43.180 finalizing the Devils' relocation to the New 00:06:43.180 --> 00:06:46.040 York metropolitan area, the league map was set. 00:06:46.220 --> 00:06:49.000 And that locked in that massive period of stability 00:06:49.000 --> 00:06:51.459 we mentioned earlier. No team would relocate 00:06:51.459 --> 00:06:55.000 again until 1993. Precisely. So the boardroom 00:06:55.000 --> 00:06:57.519 map is set. The Long Pants are banned. The old 00:06:57.519 --> 00:06:59.860 guard has retired. Let's actually look at the 00:06:59.860 --> 00:07:01.600 hockey being played on the ice. Because it was 00:07:01.600 --> 00:07:04.500 chaotic in the best way. Complete chaos in the 00:07:04.500 --> 00:07:06.680 arenas. The regular season was just dominated 00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:08.620 by absolute juggernauts. First, you have the 00:07:08.620 --> 00:07:11.079 Boston Bruins. A classic powerhouse. Yeah, they 00:07:11.079 --> 00:07:13.360 led the entire league in overall points with 00:07:13.360 --> 00:07:16.439 110. And they were backed by their goaltender, 00:07:16.519 --> 00:07:18.399 Pete Peters, who ended up winning the Vizina 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:20.819 Trophy. Which goes to the league's best goaltender. 00:07:21.149 --> 00:07:24.209 Right. He was the classic stable backbone of 00:07:24.209 --> 00:07:26.970 a traditionally built team. But as great as Boston 00:07:26.970 --> 00:07:29.910 was, the real story of the regular season was 00:07:29.910 --> 00:07:33.370 out west. Oh, man. Edmonton. The Oilers. They 00:07:33.370 --> 00:07:35.370 were doing things that literally broke the math 00:07:35.370 --> 00:07:37.949 of the sport. They really did. I mean, they finished 00:07:37.949 --> 00:07:39.829 tied for second overall in points, but it's the 00:07:39.829 --> 00:07:42.529 sheer volume of their offense. They scored an 00:07:42.529 --> 00:07:48.290 NHL record 424 goals. 424. That is an average 00:07:48.290 --> 00:07:50.709 of over five goals every single game. Which is 00:07:50.709 --> 00:07:53.949 just absurd. For context, most teams are thrilled 00:07:53.949 --> 00:07:56.589 to score three goals a night. Edmonton was playing 00:07:56.589 --> 00:07:59.410 a fundamentally different sport. It was a level 00:07:59.410 --> 00:08:01.329 of production that traditional defensive systems 00:08:01.329 --> 00:08:04.370 had no blueprint for. And the architect of that 00:08:04.370 --> 00:08:07.069 explosive offense was Wayne Gretzky. I actually 00:08:07.069 --> 00:08:09.009 had to reread the research when prepping for 00:08:09.009 --> 00:08:10.529 this deep dive because I thought the numbers 00:08:10.529 --> 00:08:12.629 were a typo. They always look like a typo. He 00:08:12.629 --> 00:08:16.769 finished with 196 total points, 71 goals, and 00:08:16.769 --> 00:08:20.029 125 assists. Unbelievable. And naturally, he 00:08:20.029 --> 00:08:22.589 swept the major awards. He won the Hart Memorial 00:08:22.589 --> 00:08:25.990 Trophy for MVP, the Art Ross for Top Scorer, 00:08:26.149 --> 00:08:29.250 and the Lester B. Pearson Award. And to really 00:08:29.250 --> 00:08:32.049 grasp what Gretzky was doing, you have to look 00:08:32.049 --> 00:08:33.730 at the rest of the league. The next closest guys. 00:08:33.950 --> 00:08:36.429 Right. Peter Stastny had an incredible season, 00:08:36.649 --> 00:08:40.429 finishing second with 124 points. Dennis Savard 00:08:40.429 --> 00:08:44.669 had 121. Mike Bossie had 118. Hall of Fame numbers 00:08:44.669 --> 00:08:47.450 for all of them. Exactly. Those are career -defining 00:08:47.450 --> 00:08:49.850 numbers. Stastny was having the season of his 00:08:49.850 --> 00:08:54.490 life, yet he was trailing Gretzky by 72 points. 00:08:54.690 --> 00:08:58.120 72 points. If Stastny was a millionaire... Gretzky 00:08:58.120 --> 00:09:00.080 was a billionaire. It's not just being better. 00:09:00.159 --> 00:09:02.240 It's existing in a completely different statistical 00:09:02.240 --> 00:09:05.139 universe. It's unfathomable. But the craziest 00:09:05.139 --> 00:09:07.759 part is it wasn't just a one -man show in Edmonton. 00:09:07.799 --> 00:09:09.600 Not at all. When you look at the roster, they 00:09:09.600 --> 00:09:12.500 had their own four horsemen. They tied the 1970 00:09:12.500 --> 00:09:16.379 to 1971 Bruins record by having four players 00:09:16.379 --> 00:09:19.179 score over 100 points. On a single team? Yes. 00:09:19.259 --> 00:09:22.120 You had Gretzky with his 196, Marc Messier with 00:09:22.120 --> 00:09:25.059 106, Glenn Anderson with 104, and Jerry Curry 00:09:25.059 --> 00:09:28.139 with 104. Insane depth. When your fourth best 00:09:28.139 --> 00:09:31.080 scorer is breaking 100 points, something is broken 00:09:31.080 --> 00:09:33.539 in the matrix. This is exactly what disruptive 00:09:33.539 --> 00:09:35.720 innovation looks like on the ice. This represents 00:09:35.720 --> 00:09:38.769 a massive shift in the sport. overarching meta. 00:09:38.950 --> 00:09:42.289 How so? Well, for decades, hockey had heavily 00:09:42.289 --> 00:09:45.830 relied on grinding, defensive, highly physical 00:09:45.830 --> 00:09:49.009 play. Think of the Broad Street Bullies. Oh yeah, 00:09:49.289 --> 00:09:52.110 rough and tumble. Right. But Edmonton was proving 00:09:52.110 --> 00:09:54.350 that hyper -offense was becoming the new standard. 00:09:54.629 --> 00:09:58.269 They relied on pure speed, flow, and skill. Just 00:09:58.269 --> 00:10:00.950 outrunning everybody. Showing the league that 00:10:00.950 --> 00:10:03.669 if you assemble enough pure firepower, you don't 00:10:03.669 --> 00:10:06.440 need to grind out wins. You can simply outscore 00:10:06.440 --> 00:10:09.019 any traditional system. Which brings us to the 00:10:09.019 --> 00:10:13.159 postseason, the climax. The stakes were incredibly 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:15.840 high. The highest they'd been in years. And there 00:10:15.840 --> 00:10:18.320 were big firsts happening off the ice, too. The 00:10:18.320 --> 00:10:20.720 Washington Capitals finally qualified for the 00:10:20.720 --> 00:10:22.740 playoffs for the first time in franchise history. 00:10:22.940 --> 00:10:25.220 A huge milestone for them. And it was also the 00:10:25.220 --> 00:10:28.139 first season of a U .S. national broadcast deal 00:10:28.139 --> 00:10:31.179 with the USA Network. Meaning way more eyes on 00:10:31.179 --> 00:10:33.320 the product than ever before. Exactly. The whole 00:10:33.320 --> 00:10:35.720 country was tuning in, and the finals matchup 00:10:35.720 --> 00:10:37.960 was exactly what TV executives would have dreamed 00:10:37.960 --> 00:10:40.610 of. The perfect narrative clash. You have the 00:10:40.610 --> 00:10:45.289 high flying 424 goal Edmonton Oilers. They had 00:10:45.289 --> 00:10:48.129 easily swept through Winnipeg beat Calgary and 00:10:48.129 --> 00:10:50.529 beat Chicago to get to the finals. They looked 00:10:50.529 --> 00:10:53.090 completely unstoppable. And waiting for them 00:10:53.090 --> 00:10:56.019 were the defending champions. The New York Islanders. 00:10:56.080 --> 00:10:58.059 The established dynasty. Right. So you have the 00:10:58.059 --> 00:11:00.820 ultimate offensive machine going up against the 00:11:00.820 --> 00:11:04.500 immovable object. You would expect a seven -game 00:11:04.500 --> 00:11:07.360 blood and guts war. A clash of titans. But that 00:11:07.360 --> 00:11:09.779 is not what happened. Despite the record -breaking 00:11:09.779 --> 00:11:13.340 offense, the Islanders completely shut down Edmonton. 00:11:13.379 --> 00:11:16.600 They swept them. Four games to none. A shocking 00:11:16.600 --> 00:11:18.220 result for a lot of people watching. I mean, 00:11:18.240 --> 00:11:20.539 a sweep. Really. If we connect this to the bigger 00:11:20.539 --> 00:11:22.840 picture, this is where the magnitude of this 00:11:22.840 --> 00:11:26.110 victory really hits. Beating the Oilers, the 00:11:26.110 --> 00:11:28.470 Islanders won their fourth Stanley Cup in a row. 00:11:28.590 --> 00:11:31.509 Four in a row. It remains to this day the last 00:11:31.509 --> 00:11:34.970 time that any major professional North American 00:11:34.970 --> 00:11:38.070 sports team has won four consecutive playoff 00:11:38.070 --> 00:11:39.470 championships. Wait, hold on. Let me just wrap 00:11:39.470 --> 00:11:41.750 my head around this. You're telling me a team 00:11:41.750 --> 00:11:44.629 that averaged over five goals a game, a team 00:11:44.629 --> 00:11:47.799 with four 100 -point players. didn't manage to 00:11:47.799 --> 00:11:50.120 win a single game in the finals. Not a single 00:11:50.120 --> 00:11:53.000 one. Was Edmonton just choking under the pressure, 00:11:53.100 --> 00:11:55.460 or did the Islanders actually figure out a cheat 00:11:55.460 --> 00:11:58.799 code? It wasn't a choke. It was a tactical masterclass 00:11:58.799 --> 00:12:01.919 by the establishment. The Islanders didn't try 00:12:01.919 --> 00:12:05.399 to outscore Edmonton. They played a brutal, suffocating 00:12:05.399 --> 00:12:07.519 trap game. So they just choked out the offense. 00:12:07.779 --> 00:12:10.179 Exactly. They forced Gretzky out of the middle 00:12:10.179 --> 00:12:12.899 of the ice. They used their institutional knowledge 00:12:12.899 --> 00:12:15.679 to force Edmonton into playing a grinding style 00:12:15.679 --> 00:12:18.960 they simply weren't built for yet. Wow. The insight 00:12:18.960 --> 00:12:22.120 here is that raw innovation often loses to disciplined 00:12:22.120 --> 00:12:25.940 execution in its first major encounter. The Islanders 00:12:25.940 --> 00:12:28.740 were a perfectly tuned machine. Edmonton relied 00:12:28.740 --> 00:12:31.159 on overwhelming talent, but the Islanders relied 00:12:31.159 --> 00:12:34.100 on a flawless system. So what does this all mean 00:12:34.100 --> 00:12:35.899 for you listening right now? What can we actually 00:12:35.899 --> 00:12:38.500 take away from this 80 -game stretch of hockey? 00:12:38.700 --> 00:12:41.700 There's a lot to unpack. I think the 82 -83 season 00:12:41.700 --> 00:12:44.500 is a perfect mirror for how transitions happen 00:12:44.500 --> 00:12:47.419 anywhere. You see the literal old guard making 00:12:47.419 --> 00:12:49.559 way for the new with the original six players 00:12:49.559 --> 00:12:52.220 stepping off for the final time. You see structural 00:12:52.220 --> 00:12:55.279 consolidation like franchises moving to better 00:12:55.279 --> 00:12:58.600 TV markets, standardizing uniforms. And most 00:12:58.600 --> 00:13:01.240 importantly, you see what happens when raw innovation 00:13:01.240 --> 00:13:04.409 clashes. with an established system. And that 00:13:04.409 --> 00:13:07.129 clash is exactly what I want to highlight as 00:13:07.129 --> 00:13:10.129 our final thought for today. Lay it on us. Wayne 00:13:10.129 --> 00:13:12.450 Gretzky collected almost every single regular 00:13:12.450 --> 00:13:16.850 season accolade. His 196 points clearly represented 00:13:16.850 --> 00:13:19.129 the hyper -offensive future of the sport. The 00:13:19.129 --> 00:13:21.970 shiny new thing. Right. But when the dust settled 00:13:21.970 --> 00:13:24.250 on the Stanley Cup finals, the Conn Smythe trophy 00:13:24.250 --> 00:13:27.090 for playoff MVP didn't go to Gretzky. It didn't 00:13:27.090 --> 00:13:29.710 go to any of the 400 -point guys. No. It went 00:13:29.710 --> 00:13:32.730 to Billy Smith. the gritty, fiercely competitive 00:13:32.730 --> 00:13:35.090 goaltender for the New York Islanders. The goalie 00:13:35.090 --> 00:13:36.830 who shut down the greatest offensive machine 00:13:36.830 --> 00:13:39.730 in history. Exactly. So here is a question for 00:13:39.730 --> 00:13:42.049 you to mull over today. When the ultimate offensive 00:13:42.049 --> 00:13:44.950 machine meets a perfectly tuned defensive system 00:13:44.950 --> 00:13:47.950 in a high -stakes environment, the defense still 00:13:47.950 --> 00:13:50.590 walked away with the sweep. Yeah. What does that 00:13:50.590 --> 00:13:53.750 tell you about the limits of individual flashy 00:13:53.750 --> 00:13:56.740 metrics when faced with a collective... battle 00:13:56.740 --> 00:13:59.600 -tested system. That is such a fantastic point 00:13:59.600 --> 00:14:02.019 to end on. Individual brilliance might break 00:14:02.019 --> 00:14:04.159 all the records, but a calibrated system wins 00:14:04.159 --> 00:14:06.639 you the championship four times in a row. Absolutely. 00:14:06.919 --> 00:14:09.100 Thank you so much for joining us on this deep 00:14:09.100 --> 00:14:11.659 dive. We hope you uncovered some surprising facts 00:14:11.659 --> 00:14:14.259 and gained a brand new perspective on how massive 00:14:14.259 --> 00:14:16.899 eras transition. Until next time, keep asking 00:14:16.899 --> 00:14:18.419 questions and keep diving deep.