NHL's Most Notorious Cheap Shot Artists

[Coffee]

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

There’s a difference between dirty player and a cheap shot artist

 

[dirtydanglez]

What's the first unit powerplay ?

powerplay? that team is down 2 men at all times.

 

[potatowejj]

Separating this out with others vs. star/HOF players.

Others
Matt Cooke
Bryan Marchment
Raffi Torres
Dale Hunter
Claude Lemieux
Chris Simon
Steve Downie
Matt Johnson (his sucker punch on Beukeboom is one of the worst)
Ulf Samuelsson
Nazem Kadri
Marty McSorley
Tom Wilson
Derian Hatcher
Gary Suter
Todd Bertuzzi
Tie Domi
Zac Rinaldo
Ryan Hartman

Stars
Bobby Clarke
Ted Lindsey
Mark Messier
Chris Pronger
Brad Marchand
Nikita Kucherov
Duncan Keith
Chris Chelios

 

[cowboy82nd]

When I look at all the other names in this thread, this post confirms (if it ever was in doubt) that Boston irreparably broke Vancouver in 2011.

The thread is about cheap shot artists, so why wouldn’t Brad Marchand be listed? It has nothing to do with the Stanley Cup.

 

[Coffee]

Separating this out with others vs. star/HOF players.

Others
Matt Cooke
Bryan Marchment
Raffi Torres
Dale Hunter
Claude Lemieux
Chris Simon
Steve Downie
Matt Johnson (his sucker punch on Beukeboom is one of the worst)
Ulf Samuelsson
Nazem Kadri
Marty McSorley
Tom Wilson
Derian Hatcher
Gary Suter
Todd Bertuzzi
Tie Domi
Zac Rinaldo
Ryan Hartman

Stars
Bobby Clarke
Ted Lindsey
Mark Messier
Chris Pronger
Brad Marchand
Nikita Kucherov
Duncan Keith
Chris Chelios

WHAT A POST

 

[Bandit]

Matt Cooke?

My sweet summer child…

 

[potatowejj]

WHAT A POST

Corey Perry, Jamie Benn, Daniel Carcillo, and Milan Lucic should also probably be here.

 

[Hasbro]

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.

After the head, the knee has to be the biggest no go and he did it regularly. He was an Avs rental and it was a relief for me he didn't crippled anyone.

Can't blame Doug Weight.

 

[LaCarriere]

I'd say Scott Stevens was worse........

.........he wanted to end your career.

He'd go out of his way to hurt you.

Pure trash.

Yet those hits weren't illegal or suspendable at the time. He wasn't doing anything "wrong" within the rules of the game, which is something the NHL has to live with.

As an Avs fan I wasn't a big Stevens fan, going back to the 2001 cup, but what can you say? If the league said he wasn't doing anything wrong, why would he stop doing what he's doing, if its helping his team win games, and he's being offered big time contracts (at the time) to do what he's doing?

It's amazing how 20-25 years ago seeing guys getting concussed on ice was acceptable, to today talking about CTE/mental heath/drug & painkiller addiction, etc. Those days weren't that long ago.

Who in their right mind thought concusions were fine, and didn't have any long term negative effects? Was the medical community that uneducated? I don't think so. I saw a buddy of mine when I was probably 12-14 wipe out snowboarding and get a conucssion on a starter hill at a small little ski hill, puking his guts out and stumbling around like he was drunk. It was scary. But the NHL was allowing players to skate into each other with headshots at 25+kmh like it was nothing, and pretend they didn't know better at the time.

 

[pi314]

Happy Gilmore took off his skate and tried to stab someone.