Denis Potvin
Mark Messier
Scott Stevens
Chris Pronger
Eric Lindros
Gordie Howe
Dale Hunter
Yes there are some players some of us love to hate on there and surely at least one of them most known for cheapshots but none of these guys played a soft game and regardless of how they were viewed by the fans you never turned your back on these guys. So go on, rank them and dish out some feedback
Eric Lindros was the most punishing hitter on the fore-check that I ever seen. I would literally cringe watching him play, he was merciless and he used every once of mass that he had at his disposal. It looked like some defense men would become pancakes. I feel bad that he had his career shortened and had to endure so much brain trauma, but violence is always a double edged sword is it not? Those that partake in it, often experience it, and sometimes the worst of it.
Scott Stevens was the most punishing open ice hitter I've ever seen. A fast moving wall of rock solid muscle, and as far as I'm concerned he was the face of hockey for my generation. Which is an odd thing to say, because I don't feel as yet I am willing to stop pretending that this is STILL me generation.
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Pronger is the biggest ****** bag out of all of them, and he's plenty mean and strong, but he's got this kind of God-complex that I find to be so undeserved. He's just so full of himself, and he acts so vindicated. He just doesn't appeal to me at all, in fact I strive to act the OPPOSITE of Pronger whenever possible! And everybody else should as well! lol
Messier has my respect, but in his own way he was quite the whinny crybaby that everybody loves to accuse Crosby of being. Except WAY dirtier.
I'll never forgive Hunter for that cheap shot on LaFontaine, how he wasn't instantly banished from the game and forbidden to be in the HoF is beyond me, there's no justice in the hockey world. He was a good player, he could really pass a puck, but just way too dirty. A psychopath who hide behind the facade of "competitor" while he feasted on the blood of the opposition like a werewolf. In my own little life I've lost it during hockey games too, I know what it feels like to succumb to the animal within us, but it never seemed to bother him like it did me.