Jason MacIsaac said:Stevens and Daneyko were just scary back in the mid to late 90's.
Its hard to say. They mixed it up quite a bit over the 90's but when Stevens and Daneyko were out it was to shut down the opposing teams top line. Niedermayer played with Stevens, Daneyko, White and Martin over the years. Maybe even Driver.John Flyers Fan said:Wasn't it usually Niedermayer-Daneyko ???
Hedberg16 said:Who did Doug Harvey play with?
Hedberg16 said:Who did Doug Harvey play with?
I think most realize how good Lapointe was. He was usually paired with the #4 guy though, be it Nyrop,Engblom,Chartraw,Langway depending on the year. Always one of my favorites. At their best, Lapointe/Nyrop was an exceptional pairing, it's just that the other one was better.waffledave said:Jean-Guy Talbot, I think. I might be wrong.
Guy Lapointe is seriously underrated on these boards.
Doc, that may have happened, but Bowman would change things up often. For the majority though, it was 18/19. Sometimes he'd shorten the bench and rotate 3 guys. If you don't want to go by my quickly becoming unstable memory, check out Robinson For The Defense and he speaks of the pleasure of playing with Savard and little plays they'd work out. Doc, how can you remember the late 70's anyways, you must have been drinking to dull the pain. Kidding Doc,really.doc5hole said:I wish I had tapes of the late-70's Boston-Montreal finals because I thought 19 was with 2, and 18 and 5 were together. The play is under review.
Meantime: Orr and Park for 10 games in Nov., 1975, was an incredible stretch. Park's arrival in the Esposito trade coincided exactly with Orr's return from knee surgery. They lost the first game at Vancouver, 4-2, after giving up a pair of breakaway goals to Ron "Twilight" Sedlbauer, then went unbeaten in the next nine (6-0-3) before Orr's left knee gave out for the final time, leading to his escort to Chicago by the Eagle. The Bruins hit 50 percent on the powerplay, and Orr went 5-13-18 and plus-10 in 10 GP. Then the team was Park's.
Honorable mention goes to Ray Bourque and Gord Kluzak, circa. 87-88, the reason Boston finally got over the Montreal hurdle and made the finals that year. Kluzak's quick feet and imaginative play off the left point gave the Bruins an added dimension that made coping with Bourque in his prime almost impossible.
That's right, not for a very long time, but they played together.Peter25 said:I don´t think they played together, at least for many years, since Ragulin was a lot older than Gusev.
Ragulin was the corner stone of the Soviet defense of the 60´s with Viktor Kuzkin and Vitali Davydov. Gusev was more of a 70´s player. The "Big 4" of Gusev, Valeri Vasilyev, Gennady Tsygankov and Vladimir Luchenko were the cornerstone of the Soviet defense of the 70's. Of course later in that decade came in players such as Bilyaletdinov, Pervukhin, Sergei Babinov and Vyacheslav Fetisov.