NHL's Most Notorious Cheap Shot Artists

[HugeInTheShire]

Sean Avery was a complete scumbag and for the sucker punch on Smid alone deserves a mention in this thread.
Tie Domi as well, anyone that tells a player they're going to "take a suspension on you" and then does is a pretty dirty player.

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

My all dirtbag team (just guys I’ve seen in my 35 years of watching the NHL)

Benn - Messier - Lemieux
Marchand - Malkin - Wilson
Cooke - Hunter - Tucker
Carcillo - Avery - Downie


Pronger - Stevens
Marchment - Trouba
Samuelsson - Kaspiritis

Belfour
Binnington

 

[vaspa]

My all dirtbag team (just guys I’ve seen in my 35 years of watching the NHL)

Benn - Messier - Lemieux
Marchand - Malkin - Wilson
Cooke - Hunter - Tucker
Carcillo - Avery - Downie


Pronger - Stevens
Marchment - Trouba
Samuelsson - Kaspiritis

Belfour
Binnington

Great line up. I'd put Hextall in as a back up goalie. Heck, he could be a shout as an answer to the question.

And let's be real, everybody would love to hate watch this team on a playoff run and they'd have very good chance to go very deep.

 

[Coffee]

My all dirtbag team (just guys I’ve seen in my 35 years of watching the NHL)

Benn - Messier - Lemieux
Marchand - Malkin - Wilson
Cooke - Hunter - Tucker
Carcillo - Avery - Downie


Pronger - Stevens
Marchment - Trouba
Samuelsson - Kaspiritis

Belfour
Binnington

Great line up. I'd put Hextall in as a back up goalie. Heck, he could be a shout as an answer to the question.

And let's be real, everybody would love to hate watch this team on a playoff run and they'd have very good chance to go very deep.

What's the first unit powerplay ?

 

[OgeeOgelthorpe]

Great line up. I'd put Hextall in as a back up goalie. Heck, he could be a shout as an answer to the question.

And let's be real, everybody would love to hate watch this team on a playoff run and they'd have very good chance to go very deep.

He’s the GM with Crawford as the coach,

 

[vaspa]

What's the first unit powerplay ?

There is a lack of right handed shooters, but I think Messier, Malkin, Benn and Pronger could cook something up, maybe have Lemieux in as a righty.

And maybe go with five forwards on the second unit, especially if we are having an old man Stevens in this roster.

 

[Coffee]

There is a lack of right handed shooters, but I think Messier, Malkin, Benn and Pronger could cook something up, maybe have Lemieux in as a righty.

And maybe go with five forwards on the second unit, especially if we are having an old man Stevens in this roster.

This is assuming everyone on the roster is age 29

 

[robertmac43]

Hartman is the new cheap shot guy.

From history - Raffi Torres, Steve Downie, Cooke, Simon, etc

For those who follow the O Mike Liambas

 

[heretik27]

I'll throw another name into the pile that hasn't been mentioned yet, Dustin Brown. Guy threw a lot of stupid hits in his day, elbows everywhere, and a vicious headbutt on Couture...

 

[Sheppy]

Ryan Hartman is starting to "enter the chat" at least for a modern day slime ball.

My all dirtbag team (just guys I’ve seen in my 35 years of watching the NHL)

Benn - Messier - Lemieux
Marchand - Malkin - Wilson
Cooke - Hunter - Tucker
Carcillo - Avery - Downie


Pronger - Stevens
Marchment - Trouba
Samuelsson - Kaspiritis

Belfour
Binnington

Binnington is just a nerd.

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

Yeah, they should change the 'Messier leadership award' trophy to a golden elbow.

Golden elbow is a great name for Jacob Trouba too. It was almost appropriate he got the award

 

[BigDaddyLurch]

Golden elbow is a great name for Jacob Trouba too. It was almost appropriate he got the award

 

[AlwaysSunnyInTampa]

I am shocked to not be seeing Kucherov's name more. He's not a typical dirty player where he does it constantly but more like twice a year he's gonna lose his temper and do some nasty shit that has no place in the game

Every Lightning fan will freely admit to this

 

[Coffee]

I am shocked to not be seeing Kucherov's name more. He's not a typical dirty player where he does it constantly but more like twice a year he's gonna lose his temper and do some nasty shit that has no place in the game

Every Lightning fan will freely admit to this

Yeah he does but not as much as these other guys.

Also even Draisaitl gets pretty dirty when mad, but Kucherov is definitely the bigger hothead lol

Binnington is just a nerd.

Come on Sheppy, the dude just beat Sweden

 

[Silky Johnson]

I hate Messier so much.
For all the 'love' he gets it blows my mind.
Garbage.

It blows your mind that a guy with 1887pts (3rd All time) , 6 Stanley Cups, 2 Hart Trophy's, 2 Pearsons, a Con Smyth, 16 All Star appearances & 295 playoff points (2nd All Time) gets love?

Moose was definitely dirty and a bit of a dick but it is hardly surprising that he gets a bit of "love".

 

[Ghost of Murph]

Some of the players mentioned make borderline hits, but they are not psychopaths wanting to badly injure. Ulf, Cooke, Simon, and Marchment were straight up goofs with screws missing. They were some of the very worst.

 

[onmygameboi]

Trouba

 

[MrNasty]

This one comes to mind. Barehanded sucker punch because he was called ‘dummy’

 

[TageGod]

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

Sidney Crosby.

 

[10YearsHaveGone]

My all dirtbag team (just guys I’ve seen in my 35 years of watching the NHL)

Benn - Messier - Lemieux
Marchand - Malkin - Wilson
Cooke - Hunter - Tucker
Carcillo - Avery - Downie


Pronger - Stevens
Marchment - Trouba
Samuelsson - Kaspiritis

Belfour
Binnington

Good choices all. What a scary team that would be to play against lol. They would be a hated dynasty.

It blows your mind that a guy with 1887pts (3rd All time) , 6 Stanley Cups, 2 Hart Trophy's, 2 Pearsons, a Con Smyth, 16 All Star appearances & 295 playoff points (2nd All Time) gets love?

Moose was definitely dirty and a bit of a dick but it is hardly surprising that he gets a bit of "love".

No kidding. Hes a beloved member of two of the leagues more popular teams. Captained them both to Cups. Of course he gets love.

 

[qc14]

f*** Rene Bourque forever for one of the most blatant intent to injure elbows I've ever seen on Backstrom in 2012.

Another really underrated current player is Kochetkov. Two of the nastiest plays I've seen in the past couple of years with his kick on Carlson and the penalty shot trip on Tkachuk. Cannot believe he wasn't even fined for either of them.

 

[The Hockey Tonk Man]

It blows your mind that a guy with 1887pts (3rd All time) , 6 Stanley Cups, 2 Hart Trophy's, 2 Pearsons, a Con Smyth, 16 All Star appearances & 295 playoff points (2nd All Time) gets love?

Moose was definitely dirty and a bit of a dick but it is hardly surprising that he gets a bit of "love".

That’s fair. I just really dislike him as a person and feel he adds nothing to a broadcast.

I see why he gets love as a former player though

 

[notsocommonsense]

Surprised not to see much mention of Nick Cousins here. Guy is such a coward to boot after his dirty shots. Duncan Keith was dirty as hell at times too

 

[Dennis Reynolds]

Wild how history-agnostic these posts are. If you were to make a list of the dirtiest 100 players in NHL history, no one in the NHL today would be on it.

 

[chris kontos]

Claude and his kid brendan lemieux should be banned and deported. Brendan's a cannibal and claude is a gutless piece of shit that wouldnt even stick up for himself much less teamates