Bizarre unusual things you noticed in the crowd/bench during a game
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Admiral Awesome
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Mike Milbury going into the crowd to test the durability of a fan’s shoe was an odd one.
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I once saw a fan at the old Pacific Coleseum get so pissed at a ref’s call that he tried to throw his coffee onto the ice. Unfortunately for the people in front of him, he was about 20 rows back.
Lets just say the Winnipeg Arena was an interesting place full of interesting people, especially in the thousands of crap seats where you could hardly see the game.
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Maybe not exactly what you were looking for, but some bizarre/unusual "things" that comes to mind...
1962 – Bob Nevin losing one of his contacts and everyone looking for it
1968 - Angry fan at Madison Square Garden with a smoke in his mouth and swinging his belt at Jacques Laperriere and Terry Harper, before being stopped by an NYPD officer
1972 – Wayne Cashman and Jim Schoenfeld being the main combatants when they crashed through the zamboni entrance in the Aud
1973 – New Haven (EHL) goalie Jim Armstrong trying to strangle referee Gordie Heagle…old time hockey
1975 – Players swatting at a bat during the 1975 Stanley Cup finals, with Jim Lorentz finally nailing it
1979 – Steve “Mental Case” Durbano making an exit for the ages, picking up 45 penalty minutes and mooning the fans at Madison Square Garden. He only played four more NHL games after that.
Worth mentioning is that good old Steve had 31 penalty minutes in his last NHL game.
That two game total would put him among the 25 most penalized players in the NHL last season
1979 – All-time classic already mentioned here. Bruins defenseman Mike Milbury slapping a Rangers fan with the man's own shoe
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1987 – The pre-skate brawl between the Canadiens and Flyers when guys came out without skates or equipment to join in
1992 – Rob Ray pummeling a Nordiques fan in front of the Sabres bench
2000 – Devils coach Robbie Ftorek throwing a bench onto the ice
2001 - Tie Domi pouring water on a heckling Flyers fan who then fell through the plexi trying to get at Domi
2001 – Instant Karma. Steve Sullivan got cut for a few stitches and was belittled by an out-spoken Avalanche fan as Sullivan was leaving the ice. A short while later that same fan got hit by an errant puck from a Patrick Roy clearing attempt. He was bleeding like a pig and to add salt to the wounds, Sullivan managed to score two shorthanded goals 51 seconds apart in the game
2002 – A Calgary Flames fan scaling the plexi only wearing a wristwatch and red socks, landing off-balance, his head striking the ice, knocking himself out, and leaving on a stretcher
2003 - Battle of Alberta when Oilers coach Craig MacTavish gave the Flames mascot a tongue lashing…
2008 – The Zamboni leaking hydraulic fluid at Mellon arena so that it looked like a player had been run over
2010 - Former NHL-coach Jim Playfair going bananas behind the bench in the AHL
2013 – Adam Pardy getting his helmet ripped off by a drunk Blackhawks fan
2013 - Paul MacLean’s look-alike was pretty funny
1962 – Bob Nevin losing one of his contacts and everyone looking for it
1968 - Angry fan at Madison Square Garden with a smoke in his mouth and swinging his belt at Jacques Laperriere and Terry Harper, before being stopped by an NYPD officer
1972 – Wayne Cashman and Jim Schoenfeld being the main combatants when they crashed through the zamboni entrance in the Aud
1973 – New Haven (EHL) goalie Jim Armstrong trying to strangle referee Gordie Heagle…old time hockey
1975 – Players swatting at a bat during the 1975 Stanley Cup finals, with Jim Lorentz finally nailing it
1979 – Steve “Mental Case” Durbano making an exit for the ages, picking up 45 penalty minutes and mooning the fans at Madison Square Garden. He only played four more NHL games after that.
Worth mentioning is that good old Steve had 31 penalty minutes in his last NHL game.
That two game total would put him among the 25 most penalized players in the NHL last season
1979 – All-time classic already mentioned here. Bruins defenseman Mike Milbury slapping a Rangers fan with the man's own shoe
1987 – The pre-skate brawl between the Canadiens and Flyers when guys came out without skates or equipment to join in
1992 – Rob Ray pummeling a Nordiques fan in front of the Sabres bench
2000 – Devils coach Robbie Ftorek throwing a bench onto the ice
2001 - Tie Domi pouring water on a heckling Flyers fan who then fell through the plexi trying to get at Domi
2001 – Instant Karma. Steve Sullivan got cut for a few stitches and was belittled by an out-spoken Avalanche fan as Sullivan was leaving the ice. A short while later that same fan got hit by an errant puck from a Patrick Roy clearing attempt. He was bleeding like a pig and to add salt to the wounds, Sullivan managed to score two shorthanded goals 51 seconds apart in the game
2002 – A Calgary Flames fan scaling the plexi only wearing a wristwatch and red socks, landing off-balance, his head striking the ice, knocking himself out, and leaving on a stretcher
2003 - Battle of Alberta when Oilers coach Craig MacTavish gave the Flames mascot a tongue lashing…
2008 – The Zamboni leaking hydraulic fluid at Mellon arena so that it looked like a player had been run over
2010 - Former NHL-coach Jim Playfair going bananas behind the bench in the AHL
2013 – Adam Pardy getting his helmet ripped off by a drunk Blackhawks fan
2013 - Paul MacLean’s look-alike was pretty funny
Big Phil
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Yeah, some of those were unique. I've seen most of them before. Did not see the one where Nevin lost his contact lenses. That's funny. As someone who wears contacts I can't imagine being able to ever find them on the ice. I've lost them because I couldn't find them when they fall in the bathroom sink because they are clear.
That streaker in Calgary, I think his name was Tim Hurlbut, that was one of the weirdest things in all of hockey. He knocked himself out cold when he hit the ice and he is lying.......(ahem) on his back wearing nothing but socks. Not the best game you want to take your kid to. But I've seen that picture a few times before and it is a perfectly timed picture but I just have to wonder what exactly was going through his mind. Not only that, how the heck did he scale the glass............naked? I am sure every other guy is crossing his legs wondering what it felt like to climb over the top of the glass in your birthday suit. If I believe what I have read before I think the guy is a Real Estate Agent in Medicine Hat now. I'd buy a house from him just to hear him explain that incident.
That streaker in Calgary, I think his name was Tim Hurlbut, that was one of the weirdest things in all of hockey. He knocked himself out cold when he hit the ice and he is lying.......(ahem) on his back wearing nothing but socks. Not the best game you want to take your kid to. But I've seen that picture a few times before and it is a perfectly timed picture but I just have to wonder what exactly was going through his mind. Not only that, how the heck did he scale the glass............naked? I am sure every other guy is crossing his legs wondering what it felt like to climb over the top of the glass in your birthday suit. If I believe what I have read before I think the guy is a Real Estate Agent in Medicine Hat now. I'd buy a house from him just to hear him explain that incident.
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One thing I always thought was really weird was when Petr nedved scored the big overtime goal in 1996 against Washington and they're panning through the crowd and this one guy is just standing there and only starts cheering when he realizes the camera is on him. Go to 1:15.
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LOL, It’s funny you noticed that, My brothers and I always laughed when we watched that game/Highlites!!!
MESSIER just heaves it, U gotta wonder if someone got nailed with it or some lucky fan got a killer souvenir.
Good eye Phil.
Big Phil
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Very, very delayed reaction. I am not sure if he was watching something on the ice that was happening afterwards or what. Or maybe he was just exhausted? I remember that game, I fell asleep on the couch and didn't learn about the outcome until the next day (1996, what can you say.........barely any internet).
All I know is that it looks like that stick goes very, very close if not over the boards on the other side of where Messier was standing. Yeah, that would have hurt if it hit someone not paying attention, which is quite possible as most fans would have been watching the bench empty.
mrhockey193195
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Game 6, 1994 ECF. Messier's guarantee. On his second goal of the night, the GWG that puts the Rangers up 3-2, the camera zooms to the crowd and you see a girl and a guy give a fake double-high five to each other where the intentionally miss each other's arms. For whatever reason, this always stuck with me. I think the fact that the feed immediately cuts away from them makes it. You can see it at 17:10 of the video.
Big Phil
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haha, do they intentionally miss each other's hands though? That seems weird to do that. I think she is sort of stumbles and because of that misses his hands. Either way, very bizarre and fits the thread.
