I'm a big fan of the old school guys, don't get me wrong, but fighters like Boogaard, MacIntyre, Orr and McGrattan should be on or around this list.
Not to mention old old school guys like Ferguson and Kurtenbach
Absolutely to both of those guys. Ferguson was mean, knew what his job was, and was an excellent, heavy, puncher. Kurtenbach was exceptionally strong, and very tough. I don’t really think of him as a fighter, just more of a really tough guy. Ted Harris was also tough, but I don’t know,that he would be on a list of top 10 fighters.
Eddie Shore was notoriously dirty, and big for his era, but don’t know if he was a really good fighter. Hockey was very tough back then, wit( guys who survived the depression and the war. Some of them literally had experience killing people in war, or saw it done. I would imagine that there wasn’t a lot of posers.