The Most Chaotic-Good Players in NHL History

[Bedards Dad]

Wait is POI a thing now? P, PT, POI, Points? What a time to be alive!

Also good thread, everyone loves some rough hockey!

 

[sparxx87]

Nice work! Entertaining read.

 

[sharkhawk]

Chaos isnt being a tough guy and enforcer. It’s the rats the guys who give the dirty little spear after the play, who just happen to lose a blade when driving the net, who give a face wash when nothing was happening.

Current

Marchand
Shaw
Dustin Brown
Keith

All time

Clarke
Mikita (early years)
Ciccarelli

Those are the players causing chaos

 

[Troubadour]

I liked Forsberg who could hammer people alright. He could get really dirty. He could break the flow of the game, enforce his own pace through his great possession and cause the opposition to make mistakes through his relentlessness. He had a truckload of skill on top.

 

[Beukeboom]

Rick Tocchet was amazing! I wish there could be more players like that nowadays. The perfect hockey player...

However I'm not sure he and guys like Clark/Shanahan etc are good example of chaotic players. They were tough but not very chaotic. Sean Avery or Matthew Barnaby are to me the definition of chaotic hockey players. And I guess Link Gaetz would be THE definition of chaos.

 

[SotasicA]

What the hell is POI?

 

[LucicAndChong]

What the hell is POI?

Points, sorry I just wanted a clean short form

 

[SotasicA]

Points, sorry I just wanted a clean short form

"Pts"? Or is that somehow dirty?

 

[MartinS82]

Great list! I realize that it was a quantitative analysis, but if I were to do a qualitative (or mixed) Coffey would definitely not be on there - I never thought of him as being a "tough" type of player in the mold of Messier, Tocchet, etc.

I'd definitely add Dino and Lindros on there, they were always causing "chaos". Probably Probert (who could play a little bit) too. Current players: I'd put Hornqvist, even though he doesn't have the PIM's and Kesler.

 

[Amorgus]

Rick Tocchet was amazing! I wish there could be more players like that nowadays. The perfect hockey player...

However I'm not sure he and guys like Clark/Shanahan etc are good example of chaotic players. They were tough but not very chaotic. Sean Avery or Matthew Barnaby are to me the definition of chaotic hockey players. And I guess Link Gaetz would be THE definition of chaos.

I saw Chaotic Evil and immediately thought Sean Avery. He is the perfect example. Perhaps Zac Rinaldo can be filed under there?

 

[Perratrooper]

Domink Hasek was pretty chaotic in net

 

[CF84]

Boring Sean Monahan is a perfect example of true neutral.

 

[Vertain]

Thanks for the good effort. Interesting read.

Any list that has the word Chaos in the title has to include Eddie Shack on it somewhere.

 

[Tube Skates]

The most chaotic player that I remember was Eddie the Entertainer Shack. Seemed when he wasn't hitting everything in sight he was scoring highlight goals. He didn't get much ice time but I recall just about all his shifts ended with a trip to the sin bin or a goal. For those that haven't been mentioned I'd put in Tim Horton and Eric Lindros.

 

[Mr Tadakichi]

I don't have a template, so you guys will have to photoshop it yourself.

 

[almostawake]

Would add Kevin Stevens.

 

[Tuna Tatarrrrrr]

This title screams Claude Lemieux and Dale Hunter.