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LOS ANGELES — Without realizing it, Mike Bossy made a deeper, broader point when he said, while standing among the NHL’s Greatest 100 Players Friday night, “When you’re surrounded by greatness, it always makes you feel a little taller, a little stronger.” That might as well have been the epigram for all of New York-area hockey from the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s.
Seeing the inter-generational legends on stage here, in conjunction with the league’s 100th year, was a reminder that those years represented the Golden Age in New York hockey.