The best "Alpha male" moments

[Normand Lacombe]

Scott Stevens smiling and trash talking Detroit bench after leveling Slava Kozlov in the 1995 Finals.

 

[TheDevilMadeMe]

Scott Stevens smiling and trash talking Detroit bench after leveling Slava Kozlov in the 1995 Finals.

Only time in my life when I'd point to a hit as the most important play of a series.

 

[quoipourquoi]

 

[vadim sharifijanov]

this entire game, which was honestly the first time in my (then) almost thirty year old life i honestly believed a canucks team could win the stanley cup.

but the highlight moments—

0:46 — andrew alberts catches datsyuk with his head down

0:52 — raffi torres levels brad stuart then holds off kronwall with one arm and gets the puck to manny in the slot

3:57 — a few minutes after hansen stole the puck from stuart for a shorthanded breakaway, manny strips datsyuk and scores a gorgeous shorty.

not pictured — dump in after dump in where raffi, manny, and hansen just had their way in the corners and behind the net with red wings defensemen. i swear, they made lidstrom (-3 in this game) hear footsteps. god i loved that third line. manny looked like ’94 trevor linden that game.

this was such a huge game. remember, detroit was still detroit then. in the fall of 2010, the red wings were six months removed from a second straight finals, eighteen months from a cup. they still got every call, as you can plainly see from all the canucks shorthanded footage. it had nothing to do with just beating detroit; it was all about making them look scared to have the puck.

 

[Asheville]

 

[Asheville]

Regarding Claude Lemieux; We may very well have seen this more but he did these half-turtling/tactic things consiously becouse he cut easily and really could not fight guys like Neely all too well. So i view Him to actually act masculine if not Alpha since he was willing to risk great consequences by trying to pest people above his "weightclass". Even if he might crawl, wrestle or sometimes even fight himself out of something he could still get vengeance upon him at any given moment in the future.
This was what he was willing to endure for his team.

Holy rationalization

 

[Jim MacDonald]

I was watching this for a good 5 minutes!! Who is the Stars player? Matvichuk maybe?

 

[The Panther]

Messier vs. Chicago, 1990. Takes Dirk Graham's head off and skates to the penalty box, saying "Keep your head up." One-sided series for Edmonton from this game forward.

 

[Ceremony]

Lucic gets in Landeskog's face, makes his courage disappear and punks him

Very alpha here, trying to fight someone who obviously doesn't want to

Probably because Landeskog has a brain and realises that getting into a fight in a 1-0 game isn't worthwhile

You know, like literally every comment on the video is in agreement on

 

[JianYang]

The Patrick Roy wink was quite alpha. Or when he deked Gretzky. Also his reply to Roenick.

Yeah, I thought of the wink as well. It's alpha, without even getting physical.

 

[YEM]

Dave Brown half-dressed (barely) coming out of the locker room to join in on the infamous habs/flyers pregame brawl in the 80’s

 

[tarheelhockey]

Regarding Claude Lemieux; We may very well have seen this more but he did these half-turtling/tactic things consiously becouse he cut easily and really could not fight guys like Neely all too well. So i view Him to actually act masculine if not Alpha since he was willing to risk great consequences by trying to pest people above his "weightclass". Even if he might crawl, wrestle or sometimes even fight himself out of something he could still get vengeance upon him at any given moment in the future.
This was what he was willing to endure for his team.

That’s certainly one way to “interpret” sticking an opponent in the face and then curling up on the ice to avoid the consequences.

 

[Johnny Engine]

There was a goal Mike Peca scored in the Oilers 2006 run, where he got his shoulder underneath/behind a (Sharks?) defenseman while chasing down a loose puck and just threw him to the side like he was an annoying child. I wish I could find the video right now, but it was a real badass move, especially for a guy who was not large.

 

[Voight]

 

[arrbez]

Wendel Clark one-punching Fetisov for going after his knee was pretty amazing.

 

[Pominville Knows]

That’s certainly one way to “interpret” sticking an opponent in the face and then curling up on the ice to avoid the consequences.

You can always pull up single incidents from an almost two decades long career, and be right by doing so.
There is no doubt that Lemieux pulled off all kinds of antics to try and put his teams in better position. Not fighting Cam Neely outright might sometimes be the best option, not the least to try and avoid post concussion syndrom out of a long career where he during mostly the first half of it actually fought pretty much anybody.
At least he did not "B" around about it like his talented namesake used to do.

 

[Rebels57]

The first 5 years of Lindros' career

 

[The Panther]

Speaking of Wendel Clark, his collision with Mark Messier @ Edmonton, Feb. 18th, 1987, was quite epic. Clark goes for the hit and maybe Messier got the better of it -- we'll call it a double Alpha-male...

 

[The Macho King]

I always liked this moment.

 

[kook10]

 

[kook10]

 

[ForsbergForever]

How about that infamous clip of Derek Boogaard coming off the bench with Minnesota. All he had to do was skate in a circle while the crowd chanted his name for the ultimate intimidation factor.

 

[quoipourquoi]

I always liked this moment.

I had a screenshot of that as my avatar on another forum. He was something special that playoff (well... he’s something special in the cumulative sense, really).

 

[tarheelhockey]

You can always pull up single incidents from an almost two decades long career, and be right by doing so.
There is no doubt that Lemieux pulled off all kinds of antics to try and put his teams in better position. Not fighting Cam Neely outright might sometimes be the best option, not the least to try and avoid post concussion syndrom out of a long career where he during mostly the first half of it actually fought pretty much anybody.
At least he did not "B" around about it like his talented namesake used to do.

OK, but Claude did this constantly to the point that his actual nickname was "The Turtle". This wasn't a single incident, it was central to his reputation as a player.

But if your point is that he had been so often chased down and pummelled by 80s/90s era enforcers who were sick of his antics, often in scenes like this one:



... to the point that he no longer felt safe taking that kind of a beating on a regular basis, then I acknowledge that this theory does have legs.

 

[Ralph Spoilsport]

Marchand doing his "stop hitting yourself" routine on D-Sedin in the '13 Finals...a rookie owning an Art Ross winner, and no response from Daniel or the Canucks. No wonder the fans rioted when it was all over.