OT: Best All-time Enforcer

Robinson2187

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Bye week schmy week. What is this the NFL? You can't run outta bounds here!

In honor of Cherry, and because this winter will never end, and I'm bored, who do you guys(and gals) think is the best pugilist of all time. I don't mean PIM leader or toughest dude but the meanest hombre you'd least like to dance with.

Feel free to add your own if I didn't list him...I likely forgot a couple.
 

razorsedge

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Probert. Because he could play hockey to.

Honorable mentions not on this list:

Tim Hunter
Geno Odjick
Tony Twist
Rob Ray
Marty McSorley
Donald Brashear
Chris Neil
Link Gaetz
Georges Laraque
 

NickyFotiu

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Is this just as a fighter or fighter and player.

Probert was a great fighter and good player.

Gillies, Oreilly, Stevens, Secord were good enforcers who could play the game at a high level as well.
 

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Twist was probably the baddest of them all, but he couldn't play hockey
 

Robinson2187

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Is this just as a fighter or fighter and player.

Probert was a great fighter and good player.

Gillies, Oreilly, Stevens, Secord were good enforcers who could play the game at a high level as well.


Just fighting. We should do another one with toughness and ability.
 

lakai17

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Godard and Simon didn't lose much fights either but not the longest careers as well.

I give them honorable mentions in my books.
 
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For my money it is # 22 John Ferguson .
500GP 145g 158a 303pts 1214pim

Playoffs
85GP 20g 18a 38pts 260pim.

Not only was he the most feared fighter in the league, Ferguson led all NHL rookies in scoring in his first season and finished as runner-up for Calder Trophy in 1963–64.
In 1969 he scored 29 goals and also scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal. He won 5 cups.
 

Robinson2187

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For my money it is # 22 John Ferguson .
500GP 145g 158a 303pts 1214pim

Playoffs
85GP 20g 18a 38pts 260pim.

Not only was he the most feared fighter in the league, Ferguson led all NHL rookies in scoring in his first season and finished as runner-up for Calder Trophy in 1963–64.
In 1969 he scored 29 goals and also scored the Stanley Cup-winning goal.

Yeah thought long and hard about including Fergy. He was a goer.
 

Ducky10

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Probert was a menace, I'd probably say he was the toughest guy I ever saw. Dave Brown was fierce though, he could throw 'em and was a lefty to boot, didn't lose many and was unpredictable.
 

Ducky10

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No Grimson? He should be on there by virtue of his nickname alone.
 

RustyCat

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As expected, Probert should run away with this one. Could play with the best of them, and throw down with the meanest of them. Those Probert v. Crowder tilts were some of the best ever.
 

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Doesn't anyone think John Ferguson should be on that list. A truly mean SOB who could pot 20 goals.
 

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Chris Walby. OK, he never made it out of the MJHL but that's only because some wimpy bureaucrats with the CAHA suspended him for life. Just think of what he could have done in the NHL. :laugh:
 

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