Big Phil
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Lots of them come to mind for me. The Penguins in 1999 all coming over to congratulate Gretzky on his last NHL game. To a lesser extent the Canucks all doing the same thing to Ryan Smyth in Edmonton. Iginla and the Flames did the same thing to Linden in Vancouver.
Bill Barber and Bobby Orr collide and Barber gets Orr's knee pretty good. I've never been one of those guys who thinks a player intentionally sticks their knee out, I've always felt these things are usually more incidental. Barber hits Orr, knows he was in the wrong and goes over to help him when he's lying on the ice. Start at 1:06:20. As this play is happening Orr is explaining why he got hit and not blaming other guys for hitting him.
Pete Mahovlich does a little tap of respect on the pads of Tretiak after the Henderson goal. Very subtle, didn't look to be like one of those "ha-ha in your face" things, but rather an acknowledgement of a hard fought battle. Clip is at 1:25
In general I always like the handshake at the end of a playoff series. I know Gerry Cheevers never liked it and Billy Smith never did it either, not to mention Milan Lucic and Martin Brodeur/Sean Avery have had some infamous moments in the handshake line, but I thought it was a class act to look a man in the eyes that you have battled for 7 games.
I know this probably never has happened in hockey, to my knowledge, but I always thought something like Crosby for instance doing a ceremonial puck drop say in last year's playoffs with the Capitals would have been pretty cool. I know he may have still gotten booed in Washington but it would have been neat to see sort of one superstar giving a nod to the other one. Tom Brady did the coin flip in Peyton Manning's first Super Bowl just two weeks after that epic comeback Peyton and the Colts had at Brady's expense. Or Terry Bradshaw being the one to present Brady the Super Bowl trophy a couple of years ago (I know he works on Fox anyways, but I always like that better than the commish doing it).
Bill Barber and Bobby Orr collide and Barber gets Orr's knee pretty good. I've never been one of those guys who thinks a player intentionally sticks their knee out, I've always felt these things are usually more incidental. Barber hits Orr, knows he was in the wrong and goes over to help him when he's lying on the ice. Start at 1:06:20. As this play is happening Orr is explaining why he got hit and not blaming other guys for hitting him.
Pete Mahovlich does a little tap of respect on the pads of Tretiak after the Henderson goal. Very subtle, didn't look to be like one of those "ha-ha in your face" things, but rather an acknowledgement of a hard fought battle. Clip is at 1:25
In general I always like the handshake at the end of a playoff series. I know Gerry Cheevers never liked it and Billy Smith never did it either, not to mention Milan Lucic and Martin Brodeur/Sean Avery have had some infamous moments in the handshake line, but I thought it was a class act to look a man in the eyes that you have battled for 7 games.
I know this probably never has happened in hockey, to my knowledge, but I always thought something like Crosby for instance doing a ceremonial puck drop say in last year's playoffs with the Capitals would have been pretty cool. I know he may have still gotten booed in Washington but it would have been neat to see sort of one superstar giving a nod to the other one. Tom Brady did the coin flip in Peyton Manning's first Super Bowl just two weeks after that epic comeback Peyton and the Colts had at Brady's expense. Or Terry Bradshaw being the one to present Brady the Super Bowl trophy a couple of years ago (I know he works on Fox anyways, but I always like that better than the commish doing it).