NHL's Most Notorious Cheap Shot Artists

[TheDawnOfANewTage]

People exaggerate how often these elbows and questionable hits took place. It's not like Messier threw elbows every game, he played 25 years in the NHL. Stevens played 22 years in the NHL, it's not like he threw headhunting hits every game, Pronger wasn't dirty every game also. Of course they are big names so people focus on the things they did but there were other guys that did it also. People are also using today's lens to judge yesterday's events. When I was a kid it was considered embarrassing to get smoked by a hit even if it was an elbow, it means you had your head down like a dork, those types of hits were not looked at the same way as today. What we consider a dirty hit today was barely looked at twice in the 80's and 90's.

Look, your honor, there were many days when my client committed zero murderers, so to label this man a “murderer” is just silly! Might as well call him grocery man, that’s somethin he does as well sometimes!

Nah I get your point- I’m more sympathetic to the Stevens argument than Messier. Elbows were always dirty, they just got away with more dirty shit back then.

I wonder if Stevens and Pronger are a bit conflicted about their careers. I don’t see ‘em as psychos or complete dumbasses like most of the names mentioned.

 

[Coffee]

@NyQuil talk about Legacy Moments hey ?


(I'm aware of Tuckers antics during the series and past games) Just remembered this all of sudden once you replied to the thread

 

[The Crypto Guy]

Scott Stevens

 

[NyQuil]

@NyQuil talk about Legacy Moments hey ?


(I'm aware of Tuckers antics during the series and past games) Just remembered this all of sudden once you replied to the thread

It was war between those teams.

I remember Chara was in front of the net on the PP (as he did at times) and Belfour was just slashing him in the legs with his stick.

Once, twice, three times, four times.

He looked like a lumberjack.

They just didn’t call anything in the playoffs at the height of the dead puck era.

He was 4th in all-time PIMs for goalies.

 

[Coffee]

Scott Stevens

He tried against your Rangers too

 

[Master P]

HM to Claude Lemieux

 

[The Crypto Guy]

He tried against your Rangers too

Cheap shot artist vs cheap shot artist. Of course the Mess is winning that one.

 

[SJinNewJersey]

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[Sparksrus3]

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



Legacy Moments :

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

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.



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.



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.

Amateurs all of them …this thread should start and end with Tie Domi

 

[Desert Panther]

Messier, Gordie, Tie Domi, Todd Bertuzzi and Marchment has to be my top 5.

Jesse Boulerice... he made number 10 on this all-sports list of Vicious Cheapshots https://bleacherreport.com/articles/789822-the-40-most-vicious-cheap-shots-in-sports-history

After watching that Messier video though... Boulerice looks like an amateur

But he was also on the wrong end of the shortest fight in league history

 

[Crow]

Scott Stevens
Todd Bertuzzi
Sidney Crosby
Matt Cooke
Bryan Marchment
Ulf Sammuelson
Corey Perry
PK Subban
Jacob Trouba

I can’t believe it took this long for someone to mention Corey Perry. Cheap shots are his specialty. Maybe not the most harmful guy but the most p***y ass one with his nut shots.

Edit: Sydney Crosby? I think he’s a bit overrated due to recency bias but cheap? I don’t think he was even close to giving as many cheap shots as he got.

 

[iago]

8 posts and no mention of Jamie Benn. Guy really flies under the radar.

Benn is #1 in my mind. Anyone willing to crosscheck someone to the back of the neck qualifies as the #1 douchebag.

 

[DFC]

As a kid, I watched a lot of Vladimir Konstantinov. He wasn't doing a lot of career-ending stuff, but he threw at least one cheap shot per game.

And Mark Messier needs to be mentioned more. He was actually an ARTIST with it. One of the dirtiest players to escape the reputation of being dirty.

 

[Lazlo Hollyfeld]

Cheap shot artist vs cheap shot artist. Of course the Mess is winning that one.

There's only one cheapshot artist in that clip. The other one is Scott Stevens.

 

[syz]

8 posts and no mention of Jamie Benn. Guy really flies under the radar.

The spiritual successor to Shane Doan. If the Stars lost more games it'd be more apparent tbh. They're both the sort of player where the questionable stuff comes out more once games are out of reach. Hartman does the same thing.

 

[Coffee]

The spiritual successor to Shane Doan. If the Stars lost more games it'd be more apparent tbh. They're both the sort of player where the questionable stuff comes out more once games are out of reach. Hartman does the same thing.

Yeah but no one’s gonna name Doan, dude. He gave everything to Phoenix , when he could have had it all anywhere else