kmad said:Dan Cloutier in every game he's played since the Lidstrom goal
benji said:
Maybe not the gutsiest, but as a yougn Habs fan, Koivu returning, after being diagnosed with potentially deadly cancer 8 months earlier, with 3 games left in the regular season, and leading the 8th seeded Canadiens past the #1 Bruins in the 2002 playoffs was chilling.
Jordoe28 said:Joe Thornton playing with broken ribs and a broken finger in the 2003/04 playoffs.
Jacques Plante said:Not to be a homer but during the 2004 playoffs Saku Koivu was coughing up blood between periods, and no one knew about it until MTL was eliminated. He played like he was 100% healthy in those conditions, with that he reached a whole new level as a captain in my eyes.
Yeah, I've still got that game on tape. For me that post-season ranks right up there with any gutsy NHL performance.Qui Gon Dave said:Koivu did have some injury to his chest during those playoffs, i don't know the extent of it though. I've also read that he coughed up blood but i don't know if it was a reputable source.
As for Koivu coming back from cancer, i remember listening to that first game online and the ovation he got before the game started was incredible. I was also lucky enough to watch game 3 of the Habs - Bruins series that year, it was shown over here. I managed to tape it and every time i watch it back, its still thrilling to watch him score the game winner. That has to rank as one of my all time favourite goals.
As an Isles fan, I have to give him credit on that one. I HATED him during that series. Then when I got over it, it made me love him as a player.LadyByngJeanRatelle said:How bout Gary Roberts in the 2002 playoffs. Leading half an AHL team over the Islanders (most brutal series of the 00's) and the Senators.
reckoning said:Yeah, all the tough players were in the East with none in the West. I guess Al Secord, Garth Butcher, Jamie Macoun and Bob Probert weren`t as tough and hard-hitting as Marian(?) Stastny, Mark Pavelich and Reijo Ruotsalanien.
On the topic of teams being spent in the playoffs from a tough prior series, in each of Montreals two Cup wins over Boston in the late 70s the Bruins had played Philadelphia in the series before. The Flyers: the toughest, most grueling, physical team in the league in the 70s. Even if you beat them you`d feel the effects from those games for a long time afterwards. When Boston was fighting in the trenches against the Flyers in `78, who was Montreal playing? Toronto. Real tough team LOL.
trenton1 said:I have to go with Cam Neely who scored the 50 goals in 49 games in 93-94 playing in physical agony the whole time with his devastating leg injuries and mental agony as his dad died of cancer that year just six years after his mom did.
chooch said:If you knew your hockey history youd know The Leafs were the second toughest team after the Flyers; Remember the brawls those 2 teams had - McMurtry got involved. Remember how the Leafs pummeled a young Bossy in the playoffs in 78 and left him for dead.
Glennie the original Scott Stevens headhunter?
Those 70's Leafs teams were brutallly tough.
Oh btw here's the Habs fared against the Flyers and the Leafs in the seventies playoffs - 16 wins 1 loss.
The Habs couldnt be pushed around and if you think a team that was 60 and 8 beat the Bruins because they were tired from playing Flyers - whatever.
There's no question the east had the tougher teams in the 80's and teh Oilers had a free ride until they played a beat up East team in the finals. DOesnt matter whether the e was a blanced schedule during the season - the east teams (and West) geared up to play teams in their own div in the reg season.
I guarantee You the Habs cared whether they beat Nords in reg season and couldnt give a damn if some pansy was whooping it up against them the next night.
Ogopogo said:Bob Baun scoring the Stanley Cup winning goal while playing on a broken leg.
Wasn't it 1964?
Jordoe28 said:Joe Thornton playing with broken ribs and a broken finger in the 2003/04 playoffs.
DrMoses said:How about chooch continually posting on these boards even though he's been shot down, proved wrong and made to look like a fool time and time again...