Kim Davis
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- Dec 28, 2018
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I recently viewed a video from a game between Minnesota North Stars and Detroit Red Wings from the 1980's. It showed a vicous stick swinging incident in that game between North Star forward Willi Plett and Detroit goalie Greg Stefan behind the Detroit goal, which saw Plett try to decapitate Stefan with the stick. This is the worst deliberate attempt to injure another player that I've ever seen, in good healthy competition with Bobby Clarke spearing Frantisek Pospisil in the face, and Dave Brown trying to decapitate Tomas Sandström, and a few other incidents like that.
My question is, is this the kind of stuff that belongs in the past? Why aren't there anymore similar incidents like this in hockey? There used to be quite a few of them back in the 70's and 80's when whackjobs like Plett and Randy Holt and others, with zero self-control patrolled NHL ices. Has the game cleaned itself of these dangerous types for good or am I wrong about that? I don't really watch hockey anymore, but I doubt that there has been anything remotely as severe as the Plett-Stefan incident during the past 15-year period. The last guy that I can think of who was really out of control and genuinely dangerous was Jim Cummins, who has long since retired.
Anyway, here's the clip. The incident occurs at around the 35 second mark of the video:
My question is, is this the kind of stuff that belongs in the past? Why aren't there anymore similar incidents like this in hockey? There used to be quite a few of them back in the 70's and 80's when whackjobs like Plett and Randy Holt and others, with zero self-control patrolled NHL ices. Has the game cleaned itself of these dangerous types for good or am I wrong about that? I don't really watch hockey anymore, but I doubt that there has been anything remotely as severe as the Plett-Stefan incident during the past 15-year period. The last guy that I can think of who was really out of control and genuinely dangerous was Jim Cummins, who has long since retired.
Anyway, here's the clip. The incident occurs at around the 35 second mark of the video:
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