Big Phil
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- Nov 2, 2003
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Been meaning to make a thread about this. I remember back in the spring when the Stars were playing the Predators in Round 1 and there was this play in Game 5 where Jamie Benn is chasing the puck against the agile and skilled but much smaller Ryan Ellis. The puck goes into the corner and Benn just literally shoves Ellis away from him with what looked like very little effort, grabbed the puck and centered it to another Star for a goal. Bang, bang, just like that. It made Benn look sort of "badass" while it made Ellis look weak. Lots of examples much better than that, but that was just the first thing I though of. Here is Benn's play:
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Okay, so what are other moments where a player just physically embarrasses another player? I don't mean a big hit, because a hit is a hit and if a player got back up it is no big deal. I mean a time when there was a player that looked like a beast vs. one who looked scared like a mouse. Examples like that.
Chara vs. McCabe - Okay, McCabe is no wimp by any means and he wasn't small either, but this was the moment in Chara's career where my jaw dropped and I realized he was a force to be reckoned with physically. This is the "rag doll" incident.
Cam Neely vs. Claude Lemieux - Wrong guy to blatantly high stick there Claude and we see this a lot with Claude in his career where he turtles. Cam didn't care, he still picked him up and slammed him into the boards.
Dustin Byfuglien - The time when he took two Predators players out of a scrum and just pinned them up against the boards by himself with very little resistance. One of those "manly man" type of plays. Not overly physical, but just one that sort of made you laugh.
Byfuglien Rag Dolls two Predators
There is lots more, so let's jog each other's memory here
Start at 2:00
Okay, so what are other moments where a player just physically embarrasses another player? I don't mean a big hit, because a hit is a hit and if a player got back up it is no big deal. I mean a time when there was a player that looked like a beast vs. one who looked scared like a mouse. Examples like that.
Chara vs. McCabe - Okay, McCabe is no wimp by any means and he wasn't small either, but this was the moment in Chara's career where my jaw dropped and I realized he was a force to be reckoned with physically. This is the "rag doll" incident.
Cam Neely vs. Claude Lemieux - Wrong guy to blatantly high stick there Claude and we see this a lot with Claude in his career where he turtles. Cam didn't care, he still picked him up and slammed him into the boards.
Dustin Byfuglien - The time when he took two Predators players out of a scrum and just pinned them up against the boards by himself with very little resistance. One of those "manly man" type of plays. Not overly physical, but just one that sort of made you laugh.
Byfuglien Rag Dolls two Predators
There is lots more, so let's jog each other's memory here