as for hockey what is different is the size of players, players are bigger now then they were then, the quality of the atheletes is better now and so skill has been blured. also you have different styles of play, in the 80s you had run and gun hockey, now it is all defensive you have the trap. in the 80s you didnt have video analysis, now you do. A goalie nwo adays in teh NHL will watch videos of opposing players inorder to learn there habits, this help's them predict where the shot is coming from and were it is going. So the rules havent changed but the times have, people player in different ways and do different things, to try and do the same thing 'win'.

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