Grittiest Leafs player all-time

[Bluelines]

My "type"? Oh man...lol

Iaypi, I simply clarified what you attempted to obscure and misrepresent. And if you think that clarification is a "thesis", given your other otherwise marginally suspect word retrieval, I'd include in your signature line something that qualifies for future exchanges that states you're comfortable only with 150 characters or less, lest anyone provoke your passive-agressive wrath.

And if I were you, I'd continue to avoid my type...We tend to have spent time verifying the meanings of words and the content of shared opinions rather than gaslight people at the first sign of disagreement.

..somebody is an English Lit major ....

 

[Iapyi]

My "type"? Oh man...lol

Iaypi, I simply clarified what you attempted to obscure and misrepresent. And if you think that clarification is a "thesis", given your other otherwise marginally suspect word retrieval, I'd include in your signature line something that qualifies for future exchanges that states you're comfortable only with 150 characters or less, lest anyone provoke your passive-agressive wrath.

And if I were you, I'd continue to avoid my type...We tend to have spent time verifying the meanings of words and the content of shared opinions rather than gaslight people at the first sign of disagreement.

Your attempts at genius are about as gritty as Sundin was. Soft.

Tip : using 104 words when 8 would suffice is boring and defies credibility.

 

[saltming]

Your attempts at genius are about as gritty as Sundin was. Soft.

Tip : using 104 words when 8 would suffice is boring and defies credibility.

As witty as that was, Sundin wasn't soft. Maybe not gritty as per your definition but not soft.

 

[Iapyi]

As witty as that was, Sundin wasn't soft. Maybe not gritty as per your definition but not soft.

We all have our own interpretations. I am not an anti-Sundin guy but to revise history and pretend he was something he wasn't accomplishes nothing. He was tough in his own way but to call him gritty is inaccurate.

 

[saltming]

We all have our own interpretations. I am not an anti-Sundin guy but to revise history and pretend he was something he wasn't accomplishes nothing. He was tough in his own way but to call him gritty is inaccurate.

I'm agreeing that he does not fit into what you define as gritty but you called him soft and he was not a soft player. He has one of the longest iron man streaks for the leafs and in that era where you could grab slash and hack at will, that says he's not soft but rather the opposite

 

[Iapyi]

I'm agreeing that he does not fit into what you define as gritty but you called him soft and he was not a soft player. He has one of the longest iron man streaks for the leafs and in that era where you could grab slash and hack at will, that says he's not soft but rather the opposite

We all have our own interpretations. It's semantics.

 

[saltming]

We all have our own interpretations. It's semantics.

Agreed but being tough and being gritty are 2 separate things no?

 

[ITM]

..somebody is an English Lit major ....

...somebody other than me...

 

[ITM]

Your attempts at genius are about as gritty as Sundin was. Soft.

Tip : using 104 words when 8 would suffice is boring and defies credibility.

Oof...All kinds of awkward presented in just twenty-three words. That's efficient and...special.

Good job, sport.

 

[nsleaf]

We all have our own interpretations. I am not an anti-Sundin guy but to revise history and pretend he was something he wasn't accomplishes nothing. He was tough in his own way but to call him gritty is inaccurate.

Revise history? On an internet board? What are your interpretations trying to "accomplish"?

 

[Stephen]

What does "gritty" mean? Playing a semi skill game and making Darcy Tucker faces as you snow shoe up the ice?

 

[Zonk]

True grit on ice .

This.

Scoring the winner in overtime of Game 6 of the Stanley Cup final on a broken leg beats everything else by far.

 

[Ciao]

I'm showing my age, but the grittiest guys in my lifetime have been Clark, Gilmour, Yushkevich, Tucker, Domi, Roberts, Corson and Stumpy Thomas.

Tucker was the first name that came to my mind when I saw the thread title, though.

I agree with all of these plus the #1 all-time: Tim Horton.

My bad. I forgot Bobby Baun.

Tim Horton is #2.

I would add tiger Williams, Eddie Shack, and Alexander Mogilny.

Mogilny took more abuse shift after shift going to the net and in my books is one of the toughest of them all.

 

[Ciao]

“All time” does not mean “since I became a fan” or”since I personally can remember,” or the equivalent. It would be more accurate to put something like the last two qualifiers in the original post, rather than “all time.” Some posters are recognizing that in their responses. Thank you.

But here are a couple of candidates: “Since I personally can remember” it would probably be Bob Baun. I can’t think of a grittier performance than playing an overtime period in 1964 when the Leafs were down 3-2 in games in the Stanley Cup finals.... on a broken leg. Baun had his ankle frozen, laced his skates extra tight and scored the series saving game winner.

“All time,” might be Hall of Famer Red Horner, who led the league in penalty minutes seven times during the thirties and held the record for most penalty minutes in a career until the late fifties. My late father was coached by Red Horner. He said Horner used to joke about having to finish the fights that King Clancy started with his mouth. That alone kept him busy!

I'm too young to have seen Red Horner, and there isn't really a lot of good film in the pre-television days.

I went to school with Syl Apps' neice, and if he was half as tough as she was then he was one scary dude. She was tall, slender, quiet and muscular, and she could easily whip any boy her age.

 

[Iapyi]

Agreed but being tough and being gritty are 2 separate things no?

We all have our own interpretations. It's semantics.

Oof...All kinds of awkward presented in just twenty-three words. That's efficient and...special.

Good job, sport.

It's nice to see you appreciate the concept of conciseness, you should try it some time.

Try to stay on topic though please.

 

[Iapyi]

Revise history? On an internet board? What are your interpretations trying to "accomplish"?

Personally I'm not trying to accomplish anything.

I just stated my opinion on an opinion board and questioned the opinion of another poster for the sake of a rational discussion, alas it was an attempt that fell short as the other poster resorted to the internet version of filibustering.

 

[hoglund]

Eddie Shack orTiger Williams.

 

[ITM]

We all have our own interpretations. It's semantics.



It's nice to see you appreciate the concept of conciseness, you should try it some time.

Try to stay on topic though please.

lol. Oh man...well said? lol.

 

[ITM]

Personally I'm not trying to accomplish anything.

I just stated my opinion on an opinion board and questioned the opinion of another poster for the sake of a rational discussion, alas it was an attempt that fell short as the other poster resorted to the internet version of filibustering.

And again, lol...We need to invoke Inigo Montoya on your behalf.

 

[BlueForever75]

Pick one of Peter Zezel, Bill Berg and Mark Osborne.

Wish the Leafs had a line like this today, talk about gritty and in your face.

 

[Communal Blood]

Wendel Clark and Dimitri Yushkevich immediately come to mind.