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NHL's Most Notorious Cheap Shot Artists

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I'll start off with Matt Cooke, he's done it all been suspended for knees, headshots, and overall dangerous hits. I'm sure we'll see a lot of people naming Cooke



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Steve Downie suspended 20 games for a terrible pre-season hit on Dean McAmmond.

Ovi had a few suspensions and some odd knee on knees but I don't think his intent was ever bad
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Bertuzzi, Hunter, and McSorley would have the claim to the three most notorious incidents. Darius Kasparitis, Chris Simon, Claude Lemieux, Bryan Marchment, Ken Linseman some others that just spring to mind.

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Steve Downie suspended 20 games for a terrible pre-season hit on Dean McAmmond.
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Downie, Shaw, and Carcillo were all kind of the same brand of contemptible gutter trash. They're just in the general scumbag bin for me rather than notorious.

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Ovi had a few suspensions and some odd knee on knees but I don't think his intent was ever bad
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When you throw as many hits as Ovechkin has there are going to be some questionable ones. He's not even the most notorious cheap shot artist on his team. Would have Malkin as the dirtier player between the two.
 
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Bryan Marchment was a scary player to watch because he would hit to kill and it didn't matter if the opponent was in a vulnerable position or not. I would always cringe everytime he went low knee on knee on someone, or when the player had their back turned to him against the boards. The one thing about him he would normally back the cheap shot up by scrapping.
 
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Kadri. Even if he hasn't been suspended in a few years, he's still got his usual shitbag tendencies. Went to a Jets/Flames preseason game 2 years ago and he slewfooted a guy. It's f***ing preseason ffs.

He literally doesn't know how not to be a shitbag. Even when he won the cup he was more concerned with beefing people
 
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Bounces R Way said:
Bertuzzi, Hunter, and McSorley would have the claim to the three notorious incidents. Darian Kasparitis, Chris Simon, Claude Lemieux, Bryan Marchment Ken Linseman some others that just spring to mind.



Downie, Shaw, and Carcillo were all kind of the same brand of contemptible gutter trash.



When you throw as many hits as Ovechkin has there are going to be some questionable ones. He's not even the notorious cheap shot artist on his team. Would have Malkin as the dirtier player between the two.
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Darius Kasparitis and Ulf Samuelsson were the first two players that came to mind. But I was also a LOT younger back then and now I'm not certain if Ulf was dirty or just a big hitter.

We did used to say that 'Kasparitis' sounds like a disease so whenever someone got laid out by him we'd say they got a case of Kasparitis.
 
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Reaves, Hartman, or Wilson

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Torres, Marchment, Downey, Cooke, Samuelson, McSorley, Pronger, Simon, Linseman, Kasper... I'm forgetting a big 1 and Its driving me crazy
 
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PavelBure10 said:
Bryan Marchment was a scary player to watch because he would hit to kill and it didn't matter if the opponent was in a vulnerable position or not. I would always cringe everytime he went low knee on knee on someone, or when the player had their back turned to him against the boards. The one thing about him he would normally back the cheap shot up by scrapping.
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In my hockey watching, he was probably the most egregious case of "I don't give two shits about the well-being of anyone on the ice" that I can recall.
 
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M88K said:
Current NHL
Reaves, Hartman, or Wilson

All time
Torres, Marchment, Downey, Cooke, Samuelson, McSorley, Pronger, Simon, Linseman, Kasper... I'm forgetting a big 1 and Its driving me crazy
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Never quite understood the Reaves argument. He's thrown 3 bad hits that have led to supplementary discipline. Guess how many total hits he's thrown? Over 3000. It's actually impressive that he's been able to stay clean compared to many of the other big hitters around the league for as long as he has. He doesn't belong in the same sentence as Hartman or Wilson.
 
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As a Rangers fan from a Rangers standpoint Avery and Trouba are a little overrated as dirty.

I'd submit that Messier did do some f***ed up shit. Dale Purinton. Vadnais could be a stick swinger.

Some old timers. Gordie Howe. Messier could have been his son. Seen mention of Hilliard Graves. Low knee hits. Wouldn't fight....low penalties. Steve Durbano was absolutely crazy. Brian Spencer another crazy. Eddie Shack. Bobby Clarke was real bad. One of the nastiest attacks in the 70's was Dave Forbes buttending Henry Boucha in the face. Boucha lost an eye. Dennis Polonich. Dino Ciccarelli.
 
...Chris Simon went after a guy with a skate...he wasn't "dirty", he was batshyte crazy... :biglaugh:


...dirtiest I've ever seen was probably Ulf...he literally went for the most vunerable part of your body available and tried to destroy it...Claude Lemeiux was a very close second...
 
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