30 Dirty Players in 30 Days.
by Warren Baker on Sep 10, 2009 3:20 AM CDT
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I have finished my 30 Dirty Players in 30 Days feature. Over the month of August, we featured the all-time dirtiest player from each NHL Team - From Anaheim to Washington.
The entire feature can be found here in my archives.
The list below is my ranking of the dirty players that we featured. Click on the player's name below to read his specific article.
1. NJD Claude Lemieux - Cheap hits, big turtles and justifies it with religion.
2. PHI Bobby Clarke - Canadian hockey's biggest embarrassment.
3. SJS Bryan Marchment - You can't you argue with his rap sheet.
4. PIT Ulf Samuelsson - Think Samuelsson's gone? Don't be so sure.
5. ANA Chris Pronger - Crosscheck, elbow, foot stomp, he does it all.
6. DAL Steve Ott - Voted dirtiest in the league by his peers. No argument here.
7. TOR Darcy Tucker - Watch your knees, here comes Crazy Tucker.
8. STL David Frost - Not a player, but wouldn't we all like to see him play just one game in Junior?
9. BOS Ken Linseman - He was "the Rat".
10. CGY Gary Suter - Mr. Career Ender
11. LAK Marty McSorley - Dirty players sometimes dress like enforcers.
12. NAS Jordin Tootoo - The heartwarming story is looks like it will have a dirty ending.
13. TAM Steve Downie - Was one of the leagues dirtiest even before his first NHL game.
14. NYI Chris Simon - A tortured soul that had to be on the list.
15. MON Chris Nilan - If you need an enforcer (or a free bathing suit), call "Knuckles" Nilan.
16. WAS Dale Hunter - one-dirtyplayer, two-dirtyplayer, three-dirtyplayer.
17. EDM Peter Pocklington - Your dad's name on the cup? Peter, come on.
18. CHI Bobby Hull - Nice guy on the ice. Too bad his wife didn't play hockey.
19. OTT Jarkko Ruuto - "Who me?"
20. NYR Sean Avery - This agitator plays "sloppy seconds" to no one.
21. DET Chris Chelios - Dirty old man?
22. VAN Todd Bertuzzi - In this case, one cheapshot does make you a dirty player.
23. MIN Derek Boogard - This enforcer's dirtiest play is spawning his trade.
24. COL Krzysztof Oliwa - Is dirty the same as really, really mean?
25. PHO Tyson Nash - Dirty player, bad hair.
26. ATL Eric Boulton - Makes the list because there was no one else on Atlanta.
27. CARJesse Boulerice - He's played for many teams, but I stuck Carolina with him.
28. BUF Brad May - "It will be good when we get him." Hmm, maybe not so much.
29. FLA Brian McCabe - This "Flying Ass" was the inventor of the "Can Opener".
30.COL Steve Moore - Of course he didn't deserve it, but his hit on Naslund was dirty.
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Steve Moore?
Seriously??
I thought you knew that algebra was all razzamatazz. A Globetrotter always saves the good algebra for the final minutes.
by SlamDunkTheFunk on Sep 10, 2009 9:10 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
i would have given Colorado Claude Lemieux a second time…
by no ah on Sep 10, 2009 10:06 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Steve Moore
Steve Moore.
I’ve taken so much heat for that one.
I concede that he probably would not have been a dirty player. However, as I mention in the article, I always thought his hit on Naslund was cheap and his attitude afterwards was poor.
I think the dirty choices of Steve Moore, Brad May, Todd Bertuzzi, and even Marc Crawford all came together to create the perfect “dirty storm” now known as the Bertuzzi incident. I think they are all to blame so I made an effort to work as many of them into my list as I could. Hence the appearance of Steve Moore.
Also, I couldn’t use Lemieux more than once (tempted though) and couldn’t think of anyone else interesting.
On a side note … Imagine if I did duplicate players – Lemieux, Pronger, and Marchment would have taken up half the list!
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by Warren Baker on Sep 10, 2009 11:41 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
You know the Avs currently employ Darcy Tucker right?
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by Jibblescribbits on Sep 11, 2009 12:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I considered using Crazy Tucker for the Avs. Not really fair to them though. He’ll always be a Maple Leaf in my mind.
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by Warren Baker on Sep 11, 2009 8:27 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Avs did have Darius Kasparitis for a season or two also…
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by Jibblescribbits on Sep 12, 2009 1:56 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
He would have been a good one. Where were you when I was deciding?
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by Warren Baker on Sep 12, 2009 3:10 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The lesson is always consult me.
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by Jibblescribbits on Sep 12, 2009 10:29 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
What about Moore’s hit was dirty? (I’m not being glib here, I mean that seriously).
You say
at the end of the day it was clearly an unneccessary hit and it was made to the head.
What’s the point of checking in hockey? My interpretation is that checking is used to separate a player from the puck, which is exactly what his check was accomplishing.
And to the head… you mean the head that was at number/logo level because Naslund was reaching (too far) for the puck.
I’m obviously biased, but I like to think I do a good job of stepping back and seeing someone’s point. But I cannot for the life of me see how this is even remotely considered a dirty hit. I’d give awkward, but dirty?
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by Jibblescribbits on Sep 11, 2009 12:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
In hindsight, I would change my statement to “it was clearly an unnecessary hit”. I agree that Naslund went low at the last moment and the headshot was an accidental result.
However, I think it is dirty to line a player up just for the sake of hitting him. The Jordin Tootoo article shows some extreme cases of this. A lot of his hits are legal, but his intent is dirty.
Moore is no Jordin Tootoo for sure, but I think that he had Naslund lined up early and was determined to hit him regardless of where the puck was going. That’s why I call dirty.
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by Warren Baker on Sep 11, 2009 2:30 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
By that definition any player that finishes their check is dirty. Once the puck is gone there is no reason to hit the guy other than to hit him, but that’s part of hockey. Hockey is a physically punishing sport and hitting is part of that. I don’t think it’s fair to characterize something as dirty if it’s legal.
A man must have a code.
by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 13, 2009 3:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Jordin Tootoo is a great example of how you can be dirty while throwing legal hits. Tootoo wants to hit people to hurt them. He seeks out the opportunities. This is different than the player who finishes his check as part of the flow of the game.
To me dirty is all about intent.
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by Warren Baker on Sep 13, 2009 5:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Intent is a fine line and extremely subjective. I’d be willing to bet most players want to inflict a degree of pain when they throw a hit. Is that the same as wanting to injure them? Was Scott Stevens dirty?
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by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 13, 2009 6:52 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Is that a serious question? Of course Scott Stevens was dirty. He was one of the dirtiest players of all time, bar none. Every shift he spent on the ice he was looking to injure someone. None more famous than Lindros, of course, but there wasn’t a single game during his career that a Devil wouldn’t put their stick between a player’s legs who was crossing the blue line, poke them a few times, and as soon as that player looked down, Stevens would charge. Every. game. Not to mention the countless elbows to the head and vicious (“unnecessary”) runs he would take (99% of the time to people who weren’t looking). Go on youtube and look up a fan video of big hits he threw in his career, I’d bet that at least half of them are wildly illegal.
by eeeeee on Sep 25, 2009 1:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I use Stevens as an example because he clearly hit to hurt but was usually within the rules. You’re not being objective about this. In his top ten hits montage most of them are clean by the rulebook, although you can certainly question his methods on some of them. For a guy that is as flagrantly dirty as you make him out to be, he sure got very few PIMs for playing dirty. I don’t think he’s anywhere close to being one of the dirtiest players of all time.
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by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 25, 2009 4:23 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I love when Flyers fans gripe about dirty players.
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by elesias on Sep 26, 2009 11:22 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Seriously.
If you're after gettin' the honey, then you don't go killin' all them bees.
by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 26, 2009 3:22 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yes. Good point. Because my team is purported to be the dirtiest that ever played any sport I’m not allowed to be against repeatedly violating the rules in an effort to injure.
by eeeeee on Oct 1, 2009 8:54 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Question
Are you rooting for a team that recently signed Chris “Leg-Stomper” Pronger, who’s been suspended 8 times and bears the nickname “Captain Elbows”?
If you’re against that kind of play, you have a funny way of showing it. That’s called a double standard.
To the rest, you sound like a whacky conspiracy theorist. It’s uncanny how often Stevens haters are fans of the Flyers or Red Wings who hate him and exaggerate his actions almost exclusively because of his hits on Lindros and Kozlov, respectively.
by elesias on Oct 7, 2009 8:15 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U7jUbKQYdw
That was the first video result I saw when I searched for “Scott Stevens hits.” The first hit was fun, the last nine are basically all the same hit, on nine different players, and it was Stevens m.o. Wait until the target is distracted and can’t/won’t see him coming, charge (in the “illlegal in the NHL” sense of the word) in, leave skates if the feeling struck him, hit in the head and lead with the elbow. The striking part about it wasn’t that he was trying to end so many careers, it was that (as you alluded to) he never got fined, or rarely even penalized for it. Steve Downie is forever considered the dirtiest player on whatever teams he’ll grace from now on for doing it once- Stevens made a career of it and is considered a legend of the game.
But you are definitely right, though- I’m not being objective about this. But that’s only because I watched him play. A lot. And aside from Chelios, I can think of few players who I would consider dirtier than Stevens.
by eeeeee on Oct 1, 2009 8:49 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I’ve watched that clip a bunch. I think almost all of those hits are legal. There are a few (3 or 4) that you could complain that he hit someone that was already engaged in a teammate, but even on those I don’t see a charge or an elbow.
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by Fehr and Balanced on Oct 2, 2009 10:43 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I don’t think it’s fair to characterize something as dirty if it’s legal.
I do. The rules as currently written or as currently interpreted do not account for all situations where someone can do something “dirty” (take advantage of a vulnerability to potentially end someone’s season or career).
I suspect that’s why a vocal segment of players want a rule about hits to the head: They believe there are peers deliberately taking advantage of these situations and “getting away” with it.
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by Dominik on Sep 14, 2009 10:11 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I see your point but I personally think the current rules could take care of the head shots. Between roughing, elbowing, charging and boarding probably every one of the controversial hits to the head could already be penalized. There doesn’t need to be another one added. The issue is of enforcement.
I understand that some players take advantage of guys when they are vulnerable, but “keep your head up” has been a maxim in the game since before I was born. It doesn’t give you carte blanche to try to take a guy’s head off when he’s not looking, but it does demonstrate that the players are expected to protect themselves (and, like I said, there are other penalties that can be called when a player goes over the line when he catches a guy with his head down). Think about Stevens destroying Lindros; he knew his head was down and definitely wanted to punish him. Did he take advantage of him? Was it a dirty hit? What happens if you take that hit out of the game? It would undoubtedly lead to more guys skating through the middle of the ice with their heads down. Not only do I enjoy big hits (when clean), but I like the fact that NHL players have to be able to do the things they do at high speed with their heads up. It’s just not as impressive when you can stare at the puck and skate around people because you don’t have the fear of God (OT, but that’s one of my biggest complaints about men’s league hockey; pretend like you’ve played real hockey before).
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by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 14, 2009 12:26 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree: The current rules could take care of it (which scares me about the players’ push for a headshot rule), and it’s mostly a matter of enforcement.
But even Stevens, whose hits were generally fair and loved in my book, had a few in his “Top 10” that I think were over the line. A puck carrier steaming up ice with head down is responsible for his own fate. But a guy who suddenly has to look behind him — because the puck has bounced funny and suddenly into his area, or because a linesman or uninvolved player has screened his view: that guy is taken advantage of by a certain type of predatory hitter who is looking just to knock someone’s head off — and who is all too eager to use the fact he’s coming from the blindside to his advantage.
The game has gotten too fast — and players too big — for there to remain blanket license to line someone up like a wide receiver catching a pass over the middle. If I could put a one-sentence line on it, it would be: Were you making a hockey play (i.e. separating man from puck), or were you trying to tiptoe the letter of the law to seize an opportunity to kill someone?
(Difficult to describe without video, but a player can tell when a victim ought to have a clue and when a he is just a victim of millisecond circumstance.)
Re: OT. I’m very much with you on no-check men’s hockey; that same phenomenon is why I really detest 4-on-4 roller hockey.
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by Dominik on Sep 14, 2009 3:19 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
The Stevens hit on Kariya has to be the classic example of a guy taking advantage of a vulnerable player. The problem with the “hockey play” standard is defining a “hockey play.” I think it’s pretty clear that hitting at the NHL level is not solely for the purpose of separating your man from the puck; otherwise finishing your check would be forbidden. The NHL has to draw a line somewhere but if you allow any hitting after a guy gets rid of the puck you end up in a very subjective area where it’s difficult to tell exactly what the intent of the hit was.
If the NHL tries to outlaw some hits after the puck is gone, but allow others, then refs are going to use other factors (as a proxy for intent) to determine if it was illegal. I fear that these factors will be a) the reputation of the hitting player (and maybe the player that got hit) and b) the outcome of the hit. Both of those possibilities are disconcerting to me because a) is unfair and b) is impossible to determine legality from an ex ante perspective.
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by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 14, 2009 4:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
You’re probably right about the dangers of enforcement: Allowing the refs more room for interpretation of intent generally leads to bad things. I wouldn’t be opposed to suspensions based on post-game review, though (if only Colin Campbell and friends were remotely competent). A play can be missed or misread in live action by refs but still suspension-worthy upon review. (Sort of like fining soccer players for diving, which is easily seen on video but harder for the ref to assess in the moment.)
On “hockey plays”: Finishing one’s check generally happens when a player clearly had the puck and should have expected a hit, doesn’t it? So if the player hadn’t passed the puck a moment before, he’d be hit in an attempt to separate him? That’s the spirit of hitting for me, and different from a predatory “Colby” hit, if you will.
I think the league could be very explicit in detailing this — a big problem with modern enforcement is that they haven’t been explicit with what they mean in rule adjustments, so interpretation and enforcement is predictably all over the map, and left to “old-time hockey” guys who grew up in an era when the game moved at half this speed.
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by Dominik on Sep 15, 2009 1:53 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
I agree with almost all of this. I don’t like putting more subjective calls in the refs’ hands because I think they do a poor job with the ones they already have. I wish we could trust Campbell, et. al. to make the right judgments on post-game reviews, but nothing I’ve seen gives me any hope of that (although I agree that is the optimal solution).
As for finishing the checks, if you view hitting as solely to separate the man from the puck then you should impose a rule that requires the hitter to pull up as much as they can once the puck has been passed (like you have to do in the NFL). That’s clearly not what is happening. If the guy just got rid of the puck you can hit him as hard as you want; I think this demonstrates that the hockey establishment thinks that hitting has value in and of itself (impose pain, make the D think and move the puck quicker, etc.) and is not merely a tool to take the puck back.
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by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 15, 2009 2:02 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Right, I don’t view hitting as having that sole purpose — obviously, it has both immediate and long-term purposes (fatiguing, intimidation), and I definitely wouldn’t want players to be expected to pull up.
Rather, that “separation from puck” is the sort of plausible cover of fair play for a legit hit: Had the puck still been there, that would be the mechanical purpose of the hit. I’m thinking, for example, when a guy gets rid of the puck, then takes several strides and clearly changes direction (turns to go toward the bench, or go back to a new position), and here comes a guy to level him because, “But he was the last one to touch the puck!”
If I were God, I’d say: Carry as you were, don’t let up on your check — but if you have to significantly change direction or take more strides to still deliver your check, you’re not playing the man with the puck, you’re seeking out the guy who happened to last have it. (Of course, I have a bias in favor of hitters who can actually skate, who can actually get to the puck carrier while he’s still on his original path, with or without the puck.)
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by Dominik on Sep 15, 2009 3:04 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
And consensus is reached.
A man must have a code.
by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 15, 2009 3:29 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Upon further reflection I’ve come to the conclusion that there is at least one great (objective) example of dirty but clean. The Colby Armstrong Special (guy coming around the net with his head down, Colby comes the other way and slams his shoulder into the guy’s face) is usually unpunishable but clearly evil. I concede the point.
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by Fehr and Balanced on Sep 14, 2009 11:09 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Not that I think he is,
but you probably could have gotten away with going Scott Stevens to Jersey and Lemieux to COL.
by Mandmeisterx on Sep 15, 2009 11:18 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
but then I would have avoided all the Steve Moore controversy, and that would have been no fun …
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by Warren Baker on Sep 15, 2009 11:51 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Bobby Clarke for the Flyers? I understand his credentials, surely, but this is the Flyers you’re talking about. There’s an embarrassment of riches that goes far beyond Clarke.
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by Ben Rothenberg on Sep 11, 2009 12:33 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Philadelphia was a fun team to do. So many possibilities. Ultimately, I picked Clarke because of the nasty international incidents and because of his Jason Blake comment. However, I have no doubt a case could be made for a different broad street bully.
I thought it was ironic that while I was writing my article, Chris Pronger was getting traded to the Flyers …
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by Warren Baker on Sep 11, 2009 2:50 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
It's minor
But I would have given Detroit’s to McCarty, or Hasek for all the diving and crap he did.
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by Jibblescribbits on Sep 12, 2009 10:30 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
One difficulty I had when writing these articles was separating enforcers from dirty players. It’s easy to label the guy with all the PIM’s as the dirty player, but in a lot of cases the enforcer has only fights to his name – and not a lot of dirty plays. McCarty was a tough guy, but not someone I saw as exceptionally dirty.
Now Hasek, on the other hand, would have been an excellent choice.
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by Warren Baker on Sep 13, 2009 12:50 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Eh, he threw a lot of dirty punches that fall outside the “enforcer” label IMO.
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by Jibblescribbits on Sep 14, 2009 8:23 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Steve Ott’s not THAT dirty. But I’m a Stars fan, so I’m biased.
To Stars fans, he’s just loveable :D
by Brad_Richards_Rocks on Sep 12, 2009 5:36 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Love can be blind.
I am a Canucks fan and I used to like Jarkko Ruutu.
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by Warren Baker on Sep 13, 2009 12:53 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
As a Sharks fan....
That’s oh so wrong.
by idunno723 on Sep 17, 2009 10:31 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
As a Sharks fan
I was always ashamed of the actions by Marchment.
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by 49er16 on Sep 15, 2009 12:04 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
The Can Opener
One person that I only added for fun was Brian McCabe. However, I was disapointed that I caould not find any video clips showing him doing the can-opener. Does anyone know if any exist?
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by Warren Baker on Sep 15, 2009 11:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Somewhere, Ron Hextall, Darius Kasparaitis, Gerard Gallant, Jamie McLennan, and Theo Fleury are wondering how they didn’t make this list.
In all, good choices. The worst offenders in my book were Marchment, Bertuzzi, Hextall, and Pronger.
One quibble: you have Moore and Oliwa both coming from Colorado. Not an Avs fan?
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by holiday park on Sep 16, 2009 3:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Gallant? McLennan? Do explain. I feel like I vaguely remember one obscure incident with McLennan, but “dirty” seems hardly reflective of Noodles’ character.
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by Dominik on Sep 17, 2009 2:14 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
My only memory of McLennan is a particular playoff game against Detroit in 2007. He came in late after Kiprusoff was pulled, played for about a minute, delivered a two-handed baseball swing to Johan Franzen’s chest, and went to the showers.
And I recall Gallant being very fond of slashes to other players’ hands.
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by holiday park on Sep 17, 2009 10:58 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Ah, THAT’s what I was thinking of. Thanks for reminding me. His career was so fairly innocent and straight-and-narrow, that incident fell right out of my memory archives.
On Gallant, I don’t doubt that — I just only remember his goals coming seemingly out of nowhere.
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by Dominik on Sep 17, 2009 1:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, it was such a strange, “what the f is wrong with that guy?” moment. Usually when a team sends out the goons to thug it up at the tail end of a lost game, they don’t send a goalie to do the dirty work. Then again, that’s a Sutter-coached team for you.
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by holiday park on Sep 17, 2009 3:08 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Oliwa is a typo – I used him for Columbus but put the wrong abbreviation. Should be CBJ and not COL.
I wanted to use Hextall since I had no goalies in my list. He played for Quebec so I could have cheated and put him in for Colorado but that would have been really stretching it …
Kasparitis should have been on there.
Maybe next year I will update the list …..
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by Warren Baker on Sep 16, 2009 10:42 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
also
For Phoenix, I would have gone with Daniel Carcillo.
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by holiday park on Sep 17, 2009 3:08 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I thought of Carcillo, but is he really dirty or just a goon? I don’t know that much about him. I knew Nash from St Louis vs Vancouver rivalries …
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by Warren Baker on Sep 17, 2009 7:17 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Gary Suter
Gretzky and Kariya would vote for his inclusion. Dunno, maybe one or two others as well…
by BJLB on Sep 17, 2009 3:33 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
No mention of Nick Fotiu?
I’m surprised. He was a dirty mofo and fought with the best of them.
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by R_Adragna on Sep 18, 2009 9:59 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
I'd have picked Tie Domi over Tucker for Toronto
but I’m a Devils fan, so maybe I’m biased.
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by elesias on Sep 18, 2009 10:22 AM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Yeah – I was sad that Domi didn’t get on there. I thought about him for NYR, the Avery for LA,but then McSorley could have gone to EDM … so complicated.
Nick Fotiu was someone I didn’t consider. I just went searching now I couldn’t find too many details of his dirtiness. It seems the older the player, the fewer the details. Which is a shame because I am sure I missed many more from “back in the day”
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by Warren Baker on Sep 18, 2009 4:06 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
heh
If you felt like tweaking the Canadiens fans, you could have gone with Maurice Richard. I can’t think of another NHL player with a colorful history of pummeling the crap out of officials. :)
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by holiday park on Sep 18, 2009 4:35 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
lol – thought of that one. It probably would have been the best choice.
My problem was, it was so hard to find clips and good stories about the old guys. My mother was a hockey fan who grew up in Montreal and used to tell me stories about Maurice Richard. I just couldn’t find corroborating evidence to put in an article.
The more I think about it, the more I think it would have been a good choice
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by Warren Baker on Sep 18, 2009 6:16 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Good call! Phaneuf’s hit on Okposo is the kind of legal dirty hit that was being discussed above.
He totally took advantage of Okposo. He could have just bumped him off the puck but instead decided to hurt him. I call dirty.
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by Warren Baker on Sep 22, 2009 5:53 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
Good call! Phaneuf’s hit on Okposo is the kind oflegalillegal & dirty hit that was being discussed above.
Fixed
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by Jibblescribbits on Sep 22, 2009 6:07 PM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
(i'm assuming this is a reply to me)
Well the elbow and the jumping.
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by Jibblescribbits on Sep 23, 2009 10:42 AM CDT up reply actions 0 recs
Toronto has had so many recently
Tie Domi, Nick Kypreos…not too surprised it’s Tucker there, but it’d be pretty darn close. I think Bob Probert has to be Chris Chelios out in Detroit. I mean…I’ve never seen anyone else punch a goalie because he missed the net with a shot…
by stlfan on Sep 24, 2009 9:05 PM CDT reply actions 0 recs
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