Ducks Gameday—Back in the day...
by Earl Sleek on Dec 23, 2008 7:46 AM PST
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Anaheim Ducks (18-13-3, 6th in west) at Calgary Flames (18-11-4, 5th in west)
How's the weather, Bertuzzi?
How about some nostalgia from when these teams really hated each other?
Among the highlights: the Iginla/Lambert scuffle that should have been stopped like three times, a hug-fest between future linemates Rob Niedermayer and Mike Leclerc, a Giguere ejection for smothering a Tverdovsky fight, and a flat-out mugging of Jeff Friesen. By the end of the game there were 3 or 4 players left on each team's bench. This may have been the game that caused the last-five-minutes instigator rule, but damn, the Calgary fans loved it. Besides, when's the last time you've seen Sergei Krivokrasov throw a punch?
Prediction: Ducks 4, Flames 1, in a relatively civil match. Goals by Perry, Kunitz, Pahlsson, and Marchant.
Go Ducks.
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And speaking of Alberta
Our good pal Kyle has made a new graphic novel about Anaheim’s recent game in Edmonton. Kick-ass as always.
Enjoy!
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by Earl Sleek on Dec 23, 2008 7:52 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
This game is the reason why I hated Friesen with a passion, even before we all knew what a hitler sporting mustached, del taco end board hitting, douche nozzle he was.
Freaking turtled while even Tverdovsky manned up and at least pretended to fight for his teammates.
Don't bRuin your life. Make love with a Trojan
by Morbo on Dec 23, 2008 2:02 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
Sleek, check out the box score from that game:
http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20012002/GS020441.HTM
How the hell did the Ducks get two attempt-to-injure penalties? And Berube didn’t? Anyway, a total of 15 misconducts (six game), 19 fighting majors, and two instigators… on the same fight? And why the hell did Lowry get a delay of game penalty?
God, Berube coming out of the box and just charging Friesen… the lovable sequence of fight-faceoff-fight-faceoff-fight-faceoff-fight. That’s like classic old
-time hockey, but much more recent. God, if we ever had something like that in today’s game, you’d have the entire NHL team suspended for ten games.
That was just amazing hockey… er, wrestling. And the funny part is it seemed like the game kept going on as if the referees weren’t anticipating another fight right after the drop of the puck.
Shoutout to future King Oleg Tverdovsky, former King Dan Bylsma, and future King Denis Gauthier… who I’m still pissed at for costing us the Detroit game.
Kings hockey: where everything matters... except the hockey.
by Kevin Y on Dec 23, 2008 2:05 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
That boxscore is awesome. With 90 seconds left in regulation, there had yet to be a fight.
Also awesome: how Calgary got 10 fighting majors to Anaheim’s 9 — I bet it’s rare when two teams end up with a non-matching number. Had the current rules been in place, the NHL could have made a fortune!
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by Earl Sleek on Dec 23, 2008 2:21 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Good God! That is the most awesome boxscore I have ever seen!
by schtimpy27 on Dec 23, 2008 4:03 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
You obviously haven’t seen the one from the March 5, 2004 game between the Senators and Flyers, the all-time NHL record for penalties in minutes in a game.
http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20032004/GS021001.HTM
21 fighting majors, 28 misconducts, including 4 players getting double-game misconducts (including the Flyers’ goaltender). All that, and in a span of only 32 seconds of game time.
Ah, you just don’t see good “hockey” like that anymore.
Kings hockey: where everything matters... except the hockey.
by Kevin Y on Dec 23, 2008 4:31 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
For a little Kings bragging rights, how about this one from December 20, 2001 against the Senators?
http://www.nhl.com/scores/htmlreports/20012002/GS020515.HTM
I’m sure y’all remember the fight between Felix Potvin and Jani Hurme. It’s not as severe, but this one unlike the others consists of a whole mess of fights and misconducts during one altercation. Adam Mair jumped off the bench to come to the aid of Bryan Smolinski (??), actually got a TRIPLE-game misconduct. Not only that, but coming off the bench to get into an altercation is an automatic ten-game suspension.
Kings hockey: where everything matters... except the hockey.
by Kevin Y on Dec 23, 2008 4:37 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That game was awesome.
-Kelly Buchberger never once won a fight
-Adam Deadmarsh was quite possibly the coolest dude ever:
-watches Jason Allison get his ass kicked by Shane Hnidy
-Proceeds to grab Wade Redden and beat him mercilessly
-Points at Hnidy while headed to the boxat seemingly threatens to hit him in the head
-Gets many concussions, never plays again
-Adam Mair is a hero, Karahlati is a pussy
-Goalie fight!
The West Coast is the Best Coast.
by RudyKelly on Dec 23, 2008 7:11 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs
That was the chivalrous Chris Neil stomping on the hulking Swede Mikko Eloranta, not Smolinski.
I feel we still have a score to settle with that worm to this day.
I have to ask, did the NHL look the other way about that assistance Hurme was receiving?
Canada hates the USA but they hate LA even more.
It’s hard to believe scene’s like that ever happened anymore.
I don’t recall thinking Bertuzzi’s attack on Moore was anything out of the ordinary when it happened.
I think these tapes show that there’s some pretty serious intent to injure going on in the NHL brawls.
I wonder if guys like Doughty or Crosby would be stepping right in to the NHL like they do if guys like Berube were still patrolling the waters?
by the eight-O-five on Dec 24, 2008 4:08 AM PST reply actions 0 recs
Eloranta… I knew it was some obscure player. I didn’t think it was absolutely Smolinski, but the more I kept thinking about it, I kept wanting to say it was Patrick O’Sullivan, so I just gave the fuck up.
But still, Andre Roy was a total douche bag for running into Potvin. Damn, I really miss Felix the Cat. He was the last true #1 goalie we had, and he was pretty damn good.
Kings hockey: where everything matters... except the hockey.
by Kevin Y on Dec 24, 2008 9:16 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Oh, and he [Potvin] could hold his own in a fight. Wasn’t it he who got into that fight with Hextall back when he was still with the Leafs?
Kings hockey: where everything matters... except the hockey.
by Kevin Y on Dec 24, 2008 9:17 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs
Actually, the game that prompted the last-five instigator was late in the ‘04 season, with Krzysztof Oliwa getting in instigator in the last five seconds to send a message. Let’s see if I can find it…
Here we are. Scoresheet and video of the main event.
Three seconds to go, actually, he puts out five guys who can fight. Figures.
by Doogie2K on Dec 24, 2008 12:58 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
As an aside, games like this are about the only argument in favour of clearing the benches. It’s a mess, but it solves every problem at once, and then guys are too exhausted to keep going after. (It would solve things even more if you still weren’t allowed to substitute for fighting majors, but that’s Bruce’s argument.)
by Doogie2K on Dec 24, 2008 1:09 PM PST reply actions 0 recs
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