Wendel Clark - Toughness in Today's NHL (Classic Revisit)

**This is a classic re-release of episode 13 of The Sign Off: A Frameworth Podcast from June of 2021**

It's almost impossible to talk about the best teams or players to ever take to the ice without someone bringing up the fact that "the game is way too different today to start comparing eras."

While that might be true in a general sense, one aspect of the current NHL seems to be overlooked quite frequently: toughness.

Are modern NHL players less tough than the breed of athlete we used to see decades ago? Or have the rules changed so much around them that that type of play simply doesn't work anymore?

Who better to ask than one of the most well rounded, toughest players to ever lace up the skates? We're joined in studio by Wendel Clark to get his perspective on the modern NHL, and how the league uses the idea of "toughness" as a selling point to attract new viewers.