Dirty players in your team's history that you loved

[SladeWilson23]

With the Tom Wilson hoopla recently, who would you say is the dirtiest player to ever play for your team? As a Devils fan, Claude Lemieux is probably the most notorious dirty player to play for them.

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[HabsDood]

Claude Lemieux? He was a pest though, not dirty.

 

[Connor McConnor]

Raffi Torres with Edmonton was just a little bit dirty but still decently productive and brought solid energy. Once he went to Vancouver he was a full pyscho though.. maybe too much time spent at Roxy and after hours places?

 

[Karl Eriksson]

Loved Gryba in Ottawa. Rewatching That hit on Eller is how I reach inner peace.

 

[Xirik]

Claude Lemieux? He was a pest though, not dirty.

I'm guessing a Wings fan would beg to differ

Bet someone says Scott Stevens though.

 

[Chokingdogs]

Dale Hunter!!!

The same 20+ game suspended Dale Hunter that ole Gary B invited to play in the all star game!

 

[JoVel]

Claude Lemieux? He was a pest though, not dirty.

Pests can't be dirty...?

 

[CanadasTeam]

Kadri, he was a soldier for the Leafs.

October 2020 article: Top 10 Dirtiest NHL Players (thehockeywriters.com)

 

[ManwithNoIdentity]

Bertuzzi

 

[HabsDood]

Pests can't be dirty...?

Well Wilson's not worthy of a pest, not the same.

 

[YukonCornelius]

Claude Lemieux? He was a pest though, not dirty.

What? Lemieux was super dirty…

 

[GrizzGreen]

Tucker, Darcy

 

[HabsDood]

What? Lemieux was super dirty…

Well not back to his Montréal days, he was a tough sob with a huge heart. Though maybe he got dirtier with time

 

[Ridge1982]

Blues:

Steve Durbano- that dude was psychotic

Ryan Reaves

 

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

Tucker, Darcy

As a Sabres fan, f*** that guy. As someone trying to be objective- ya, I get it. Even when I hated him, I knew I’d appreciate him in blue and gold.

Also..

Patrick Kaleta. Teenage me loved his reckless wreck ‘em style. Different opinion now, that one on Kariya was never defensible, but at the time I loved how much of a random game changer the dude could be.

 

[Pens x]

Ulf Samuelsson on the Pens.

 

[BenningHurtsMySoul]

Burrows. Dirty as f***, but we love him.

 

[Bounces R Way]

Tkachuk, Matthew. Has mostly sucked this season but love a skilled player that isn't afraid to get greasy.

 

[Swervin81]

As a Sabres fan, f*** that guy. As someone trying to be objective- ya, I get it. Even when I hated him, I knew I’d appreciate him in blue and gold.

Also..

Patrick Kaleta. Teenage me loved his reckless wreck ‘em style. Different opinion now, that one on Kariya was never defensible, but at the time I loved how much of a random game changer the dude could be.

Kaleta, Rob Ray, and Matt Barnaby. f*** those guys

Tie Domi's another one from our end that a lot of Leaf fans loved, but he really, really completely lost me after the Niedermayer hit. It was genuinely one of the most bush league things ever and it completely erased any momentum we had from winning that game. That hit woke up the Devils big time and they eventually destroyed us in game 7.

 

[Accelleratii]

Never was a fan of the dirty players

 

[McGarnagle]

Everyone's going to expect us to say Marchand for Boston. Unpopular opinion but I think Marchand's reputation is overstated and largely stems from some incidents from early in his career, he's been playing clean for 3 years now, and pretty much all the disciplinary actions after about 2013 were reputation-driven and not assessed on their own merit.

I think Lucic was a more "dirty" player. by that I mean he crossed the line at times to where even I as a fan was like "alright man, cool it down." But I loved that it came from a place of passion and competition, not malice.

Otherwise the players that opposing fanbases derided as being dirty thugs back when we were a physical team - Thornton and Chara mostly, were standup players and widely respected across the league, even with that Orpik incident and the Pacioretty accident that everyone went crazy about. Going back years before that, Kyle McLaren is pretty much only remembered for that flying elbow on Zednik in the playoffs. But I loved the physicality he brought even if he crossed the line (also, I was like 14 then so I didn't feel bothered by him throwing a cheapshot against our biggest rival).

Last guy on the team who I think was a total dirty tool? Probably McSorely.

 

[Poulin 0n My St1ck]

Trevor Gillies, if he qualifies as a player, and Zenon Konopka, if he qualifies as dirty

 

[Doug19]

Derek Dorsett for CBJ.

 

[Alwalys]

Raffi Torres but he legitimately played mostly clean for the sharks.

 

[MysticLeviathan]

has to be Messier