Video "Brave Billy" Smith but ends Lindy Ruff in the eye.

[Howie Hodge]

Someone just reminded me of this one...

(About 3:12 of the video)

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[Crosbyfan]

Smith was such a POS.

 

[Filthy Dangles]

too bad he didn't get to rip his mask off and make his face pulp

 

[boredmale]

Great thing about that is

NHL Boxscores from May 10, 1980

Lindy Ruff, BUF [Charging, Roughing] 2:47

Billy Smith, NYI [Roughing] 2:47

 

[GarbageGoal]

Billy Smith was also one of the first with those garbage face mask goalie masks, typical of that type.

 

[Brunomics]

It's Battlin Billy Smith

 

[BobbyAwe]

Smith was one of those players who wasn't just dirty - it's like he had a mental problem.

 

[Howie Hodge]

Incredible, I'd forgotten that Lindy Ruff once had hair.....

 

[Tim Wallach]

That is the definition of a joke.

 

[blood gin]

This stuff was commonplace back then everywhere. Cheap play but Smith had a short temper and liked to keep his crease clear

 

[Big Phil]

Smith was one of those players who wasn't just dirty - it's like he had a mental problem.

They all do, they are goalies. You have to be an oddball to play net. Martin Brodeur is just the exception of a normal netminder.

That was cheap no doubt..........but man, whether as a coach or a player it was always hard to like Lindy Ruff.

 

[Ivan13]

Ruff at home, Lindy on the road was a meme before memes existed.

 

[Sinter Klaas]

If I remember Ruff had a bloodshot eye for months afterwards.

 

[Jacob]

Love that ridiculous sweep shot the d-man took. If I had a time machine I'd have been a superstar in the 70s.

 

[Isles72]

never did like that cheapshot , even as a kid watching it in the 80s .

its one thing to hack and whack at someone ankles but to blindly twitch your butt of the stick without knowing if your getting the guy in the throat / eye is pretty scary .

 

[H3ckt1k]

Lindy ruff with hair looks like Murray from the wiggles