When you talk tough little guys, you have to include Henri Richard, the same guy I mentionned in the #16 thread. He was about 5'8" and maybe 160 lbs. Teams thought that they could get his brother Maurice off his game by roughing up his little brother. The story I heard was that one night early in his career, he made a point of fighting Boston's 3 toughest players at the time, Leo Labine,Fern Flaman and I have no idea who the 3rd was. I don't know if he won every fight, but no one picked on him again. If you want to talk determination in a hockey player, this guy was a poster child. He was emabarassed one night when JC Tremblay declined Vic Hadfield's challenge and jumped Hadfield. He took a beating from the bigger, younger Hadfield but he made his point. Eddie Shack head butted him in a fight one night, and I think it was after there retirement when they did commercials together before Shack felt safe around the guy again. Keep in mind that he wasn't there to fight, he was a great player who just never backed down.