Player Discussion: 40th Anniversary of the Jimmy Mann / Paul Gardner incident

[Guardian17]

I wonder what penalties the DOPS would levy against these two if this happened today.

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[Guardian17]

 

[snowkiddin]

I wonder what penalties the DOPS would levy against these two if this happened today.

Depends where the Wheel O’ Disciple (C) ends up.

 

[ps241]

I hate sucker punches and this one is gross.... However, that was such a douche bag, intentional cheap shot, cross check to the face I have zero sympathy for Gardner. Both plays are suspension worthy.

 

[Cypruss]

I see a young Randy Carlyle on the ice there too....#25 for the Penguins. Believe that was his Norris season as well

 

[Heldig]

Not condoning it but at least the good did something goo worthy and beat up the ***that tried to injure a player.

Nothing worse than the staged fights as retribution...usually a waste of time. Or, when a big check happens and the closest guy jumps the offender and they wrestle to the ice ('cause that 'll teach him).

 

[Eyeseeing]

Repulsive action got an opposite and equal repulsive reaction.
Don’t be a douche and that doesn’t happen.

 

[Channelcat]

That had to hurt. Not one, but two bare knuckle haymakers. Surprised he didn't kill him.

 

[jetsmooseice]

I'm assuming that Gardner didn't literally break his stick on Doug Smail's face for nothing. I wonder what triggered all that?

Also, he couldn't have been surprised by Mann's payback shots. Like what was Gardner's excuse "hurr durr it was an accident".

 

[WaveRaven]

He deserved it.

Smail did nothing to deserve that pretty clean player fun to watch.

I loved Jimmy. Fergie saw the junior scoring stats when he drafted him. Someone noted years later he must of got those goals in front because everyone was scared to get him mad and move him out lol.

The other story I read was he had one of the first remote start caddies back then. Apparently Jimmy and the boys were standing at the old barn door starting and stopping the caddy in awe.

 

[Channelcat]

He deserved it.

Smail did nothing to deserve that pretty clean player fun to watch.

I loved Jimmy. Fergie saw the junior scoring stats when he drafted him. Someone noted years later he must of got those goals in front because everyone was scared to get him mad and move him out lol.

The other story I read was he had one of the first remote start caddies back then. Apparently Jimmy and the boys were standing at the old barn door starting and stopping the caddy in awe.

I remember everybody loving Jimmy Mann, he never scored but there was a buzz when he got the puck on his stick......or even just when he was on the ice.

 

[Finnflash]

I remember my uncle telling me he was at the game an you could hear the crack off the jaw on the first punch of mann.
Crazy

 

[WaveRaven]

The first Bruins game was awesome. Right off the bat we had Hoyda and Mann battling Schmatz and O'Reilly. The place went nuts.

 

[blues10]

The first Bruins game was awesome. Right off the bat we had Hoyda and Mann battling Schmatz and O'Reilly. The place went nuts.

The Kluzak v Kyte fight a few years later was pretty damn good too!

For the record I am not big fan of fighting in hockey particularly staged fights or in the modern games, fighting due to one guy laying out someone via a clean hit. A legit in the heat of the moment fight I can handle.

As for Mann. There has never been or will ever be any need for plays like that in hockey. I was a huge Smail fan too but just not acceptable. Gardiner was an idiot.

I was at this game. Saturday night v the Bruins. The old barn was a rocking!

 

[Guardian17]

When the Pens came back to town the next season, Gardner caught the "Winnipeg Flu" and did not play.

The Pens did not have another case of the "Winnipeg Flu" until Mario Lemieux caught it in the 1990's!

 

[thai jet]

Dumbest 1st round pick of Fergies time here. Next picks were 1152 pt man Goulet then multi cup winner Lowe. Messier and Dale Hunter were available too. I never had any use for Mann or Jimmy Kyte.

 

[Heldig]

The Kluzak v Kyte fight a few years later was pretty damn good too!

For the record I am not big fan of fighting in hockey particularly staged fights or in the modern games, fighting due to one guy laying out someone via a clean hit. A legit in the heat of the moment fight I can handle.

As for Mann. There has never been or will ever be any need for plays like that in hockey. I was a huge Smail fan too but just not acceptable. Gardiner was an idiot.

I was at this game. Saturday night v the Bruins. The old barn was a rocking!

If that fight happened in the current NHL everyone on the ice would be in concussion protocol!

 

[Channelcat]

If that fight happened in the current NHL everyone on the ice would be in concussion protocol!

Hockey would be cancelled and we would have councillors and a hotline for those negatively effected.

 

[MrBoJangelz71]

Targeting a guys jaw with a cross check is bad, but doing so to someone after returning from a broken jaw is brutally pathetic

 

[cbcwpg]

Pens centre Paul Gardner cross-checked Winnipeg's Doug Smail in the face, breaking his stick on impact. Before the next faceoff, Mann approached Gardner from behind and punched him twice, breaking his jaw in two places.
"Doug had just come off a broken jaw. He got caught up in the whole thing and I hit him, I smacked him," says Mann. "It's the way it was. "
"It happened and I don't have any regrets about it, either. None at all."

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