E60: Unrivaled Wings/Avs Documentary

[Ovechkins vodka]

Can't wait to watch this

 

[Brodeur]

Looks like it'll be released in late June. Trailer looks promising, doesn't seem like the players will be holding back on their responses.

 

[Voight]

 

[Sol]

Wow I’m really stoked. Even as a Kings fan you’d have to tune into their games over your own because they were that good. What an insane trailer.

 

[SoundwaveIsCharisma]

That looks great! I can't wait for all these guys to be super passionate about how much they hated the other team, and then when it's Joe's turn I hope he remains Quoteless Joe.

 

[SenzZen]

 

[JackSlater]

Trailer looks great and it looks like the doc has plenty of the prominent people from the rivalry. Looking forward to this.

 

[Langdon Alger]

If I were a Wings fan, I would not give Claude Lemieux a standing ovation.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

If I were a Wings fan, I would not give Claude Lemieux a standing ovation.

As an Avalanche fan, I shook Darren McCarty's hand a few years ago. It's twenty years ago.

 

[Langdon Alger]

As an Avalanche fan, I shook Darren McCarty's hand a few years ago. It's twenty years ago.

Sure, but the bad feelings are still there for some.

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Sure, but the bad feelings are still there for some.

For you, though? You note that you're not a Wings fan, so how can you confidently state that "if" you were one, the bad feelings would still be there?

 

[Langdon Alger]

For you, though? You note that you're not a Wings fan, so how can you confidently state that "if" you were one, the bad feelings would still be there?

Did you ever see what Lemieux did to Draper? After that, I can’t imagine giving him a standing o if were a Wings fan. Sure, it was a long time ago, and time can certainly heal some wounds, I would just feel gross if I gave him a round of applause if I cheered for Detroit.

 

[Danrs112]

Did you ever see what Lemieux did to Draper? After that, I can’t imagine giving him a standing o if were a Wings fan. Sure, it was a long time ago, and time can certainly heal some wounds, I would just feel gross if I gave him a round of applause if I cheered for Detroit.

Lemieux is a POS. Everybody else on his team iI can and have moved on from hating. But eff that guy specifically.

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

Oh sweet dear mother of 8lb 7oz baby Jesus inject this into my veins

 

[Bear of Bad News]

Did you ever see what Lemieux did to Draper? After that, I can’t imagine giving him a standing o if were a Wings fan. Sure, it was a long time ago, and time can certainly heal some wounds, I would just feel gross if I gave him a round of applause if I cheered for Detroit.

Yes, I saw the game. Glad you've got all of these hypotheticals figured out - must be nice.

 

[Langdon Alger]

Yes, I saw the game. Glad you've got all of these hypotheticals figured out - must be nice.

Be condescending if you want, that’s your business. Good day to you.

 

[tabness]

I still "hate" the Avs from that time and that's what I love about the rivalry. I hope they give Mike Haynes some play in the documentary, or at least use some of his calls, the voice of the Avs that I loved to hate.

 

[OG6ix]

This looks like a must watch. That rivalry was awesome.

 

[Necrobutcher]

Wow! A total must see. Any info yet where can you watch this in Europe?

 

[Tkachuk4MVP]

Amazing! And it looks they interviewed just about every big name who was a part of it. Can’t wait.

 

[TheRarestDangles]

HOLY SHIT

 

[BLNY]

It was a bitter rivalry, but 'unrivaled'? #$%^ no.

 

[cjeagle]

The hate was real back then and the confrontation even spilled off the ice all the way to the parking lot where their respective buses were parked but the rivalry has mellowed thru time and especially now that each team are on separate conferences.

Former Avs player Alex Tanguay is now an asst. coach for the Redwings. Long time Redwings forward Darren Helm just scored the goal that helped clinch the Western Conf Finals for the Avs.

Claude Lemieux is now a player agent who represents the Redwing's most promising defenceman Moritz Seider and is friendly enough with his tormentor McCarty that they got together to watch their epic fight on the 25th anniversary of that game(or all out brawl) that defined their rivalry and the Redwings fans in attendance cheered him.

He wasn't so cheerful back then.

Watching the game back, Lemieux said he didn't like what he was seeing. He was skating tentatively, avoiding traffic.

That night at the Joe, however, he wasn't himself. Maybe it was because before the game, he had thoughts of getting shot. Seriously. "It crossed my mind," he said.

'I wasn't ready for what was coming': Lemieux, McCarty watch epic fight together

It's been 25 years since Darren McCarty pummeled Claude Lemieux in a fight-filled game. On Saturday night, they re-watched that game together.

www.detroitnews.com

Apparently Lemieux's teammate Adam Foote confronted him after the game after he refused to fight and turned turtle to defend himself.

Lemieux thinks it might have been Foote who stormed in and said, "We're going to fight till we die," to which Lemieux said, laughing (Saturday, 25 years later, anyway), "That's not a good idea."

"Anybody that's been in a fight," said Lemieux, "you get in that position, you're done.

"I just wasn't ready for what was coming, and it came hard.

"You hang on tight and you take your beating."

As McCarty was pounding Lemieux, Colorado goalie Patrick Roy tried to stop it, but was met by Detroit's Brendan Shanahan, who delivered a clothesline right out of the WWF.

Shanahan and Foote then got into it, before Detroit goalie Mike Vernon went to try to help Shanahan.

That's when Roy and Vernon mixed it up, that rare goalie fight that Lemieux still considers the best of the game.

 

[beedee]

Must watch!

 

[WingsMJN2965]

It was a bitter rivalry, but 'unrivaled'? #$%^ no.

Trying to find a rivalry in hockey that’s come anywhere close, since.

… I got nothing.