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TIL that there were no penalty boxes before 1960!



TIL that there were no penalty boxes before 1960!

by michiganhockeyguy

7 Comments

  1. JiveChicken00

    How great would it be if they just had to sit with the fans in the first row 🙂

  2. ksettle86

    TIL Jack Eichel was a cop in the ’60s

  3. mitch-dubz

    Imagine graduating the police academy and then getting to watch hockey almost every night. Sweet gig.

  4. Len_Zefflin

    Ted sitting there thinking “I’m not getting paid enough for this.”

  5. ChiefSlug30

    They did have penalty boxes, just not as you think of them. It was a single box for both teams and wasn’t physically separated from fans. Later in the 60s, they started with a box for each team, but it still wasn’t separated from the fans.

  6. TheRitalinCommando

    There was A penalty box. Just one. My dad would tell me stories (as a fan) of how there was a guy who would sit between the players and he regularly had to keep them from fighting with each other.

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