DRYDEN’S VIEWS OF HOCKEY

Re “An Icon in two towns” (Lance Hornby, Sept. 7): I was never a Ken Dryden fan. He kinda sucked during the 1972 Summit Series and there’s a good chance Andrew “Red Light” Racicot would have won Vezinas and Stanley Cups playing goalie behind all the future hall of famers on that 1970s Canadiens dynasty.

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I particularly didn’t like Dryden’s post-retirement views on the game that made him famous. In 2011, in the Globe and Mail, I wrote about Dryden seeking to “wussify” hockey. In 2018, in this paper, I wrote that “when it comes to a philosophy of the game, it doesn’t gotta be K.D.’s.” I was firmly in the Don Cherry “rock ’em sock ’em” camp. But, as John Stuart Mill taught us, your opinion always needs to be tested by the best presentation of the

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