Guardian17
Strong & Free
I wonder what penalties the DOPS would levy against these two if this happened today.
I wonder what penalties the DOPS would levy against these two if this happened today.
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.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.
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!
Hockey would be cancelled and we would have councillors and a hotline for those negatively effected.If that fight happened in the current NHL everyone on the ice would be in concussion protocol!