pimpcurtly Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Billy or Ulf. Dishonorable mention: Messier and ratface. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strawberries Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 simon for sure Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonfruits Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Chris Simon has to take the crown for dirtiest player ever the 2 incidents plus his other suspensions its surprising he didn't injure more players the way he lost it from wiki his other incidents On November 8, 1997, during a game against the Edmonton Oilers, Simon was suspended three games after calling Edmonton forward Mike Grier (racial slur) [3] Simon flew to Toronto to apologize to Grier.[4] Grier and Simon were later teammates for a brief time in 2002 with the Washington Capitals. Simon was suspended for one game in a 2000 playoff series against Pittsburgh for cross checking Peter Popovic across the throat on April 13, 2000. He was given two-game suspensions once on April 5, 2001 for elbowing Anders Eriksson, and twice in 2004 for cross checking Tampa Bay's Ruslan Fedotenko and then jumping on and punching him, and for kneeing Dallas's Sergei Zubov.[2] guy had more than a couple screws loose in the head Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkeeterHansen Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Chris Simon. The guy was completely loony. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brewdog Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 "Marchment has been suspended for deliberate attempts to injure other players numerous times throughout his playing career. He was suspended 13 times by the league in his first 12 NHL seasons and his hits were blamed for injuries suffered by Mike Modano, Joe Nieuwendyk, Greg Adams, Mike Gartner, Kevin Dineen, Peter Zezel, Pavel Bure, Sami Salo, Paul Kariya, Wendel Clark and Martin Ručínský. On February 3, 1995, while the Toronto Maple Leafs were visiting Marchment's Oilers, a hit by Marchment partially collapsed one of Gartner's lungs; the severely injured Gartner had to return to Toronto by train. Marchment always stuck in my mind as someone who was out to injure the other team's best players. Just look at the list of names mentioned above. His hits were always like a high-speed stealth attack. His victims rarely even knew he was coming. Simon was certainly dirty, but his deeds seemed to be more of a retaliatory nature. He gets checked hard, so he swings back etc. Carcillo has potential. I think it's just a matter of time before he ends someone's career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 "Marchment has been suspended for deliberate attempts to injure other players numerous times throughout his playing career. He was suspended 13 times by the league in his first 12 NHL seasons and his hits were blamed for injuries suffered by Mike Modano, Joe Nieuwendyk, Greg Adams, Mike Gartner, Kevin Dineen, Peter Zezel, Pavel Bure, Sami Salo, Paul Kariya, Wendel Clark and Martin Ručínský. On February 3, 1995, while the Toronto Maple Leafs were visiting Marchment's Oilers, a hit by Marchment partially collapsed one of Gartner's lungs; the severely injured Gartner had to return to Toronto by train. Marchment always stuck in my mind as someone who was out to injure the other team's best players. Just look at the list of names mentioned above. His hits were always like a high-speed stealth attack. His victims rarely even knew he was coming. Simon was certainly dirty, but his deeds seemed to be more of a retaliatory nature. He gets checked hard, so he swings back etc. Carcillo has potential. I think it's just a matter of time before he ends someone's career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldnews Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 and who could forget Bobby Clarke? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canucks.brad Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 while acceptable back then, im going to go with scott stevens. he destroyed a few careers including vancouver's own paul kariya scott stevens would have a permanent chair in shanahans office Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bure fan Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 while acceptable back then, im going to go with scott stevens. he destroyed a few careers including vancouver's own paul kariya scott stevens would have a permanent chair in shanahans office Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brenbowa Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 STEVE MOORE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RUPERTKBD Posted November 23, 2012 Author Share Posted November 23, 2012 STEVE MOORE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TimberWolf Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 It's funny that you bring up Moore since there are so many posts naming Marty McSorely, essentially for a single dirty play, yet no-one has mentioned Todd Bertuzzi.... Also, it's true that Mark Messier played a dirty game, however, it's also true that his game was similar to Gordie Howe's. I see the prevailing CDC Anti-Messier sentiment as a contributing factor to his being mentioned so often. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nuckin_futz Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Scott Stevens wasn't dirty. Haha Scott Stevens was just a tank of a man. He just devestated players that got in his way, Nothing dirty about it . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snake Doctor Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Chris Simon, Sean Avery, and Matt Cooke are my choices. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bure fan Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Stevens deliberately targeted his opponents heads on many occasions. Their heads may have been lowered but that's no excuse. He'd be facing multiple suspensions if he was playing in today's game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
250Integra Posted November 23, 2012 Share Posted November 23, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pimpcurtly Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 Actually Steve Moore was a Cooke type of player. Keep in mind he had run St. Louis (who was then the leagues leading scorer) from behind a few games previous to his headhunt on Nasland. He was trying to earn a permanent roster spot from tony "tomahawk" Granato and headhunting seemed his way to do it. He is not the dirtiest player on this list because his career was cut short but it looked like he was working at it. Bert belongs on the list if McSorely does and both do not as I stated earlier it's not right to define their full careers on a single incident. As for Messier? 1 week after the NHL was purged of goonery forever buy making an example of Bertuzzi, Messier speared a younger player in the groin to which it was stated by the NHL "That's a vet showing a rookie who he can and cannot hit in this league" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Wizard of AZ Posted November 24, 2012 Share Posted November 24, 2012 Sprague Cleghorn: Sprague was never popular in Ottawa, even when he played there. In one game against Montreal Cleghorn viciously attacked Newsy Lalonde with his stick, reportedly drawing the ire of police although no charges were ever drawn. Whenever he played against former Ottawa teammates, Cleghonr often instigated brawls and cheap shots as if he seemed to have a personal vendetta against certain players. In fact, in one playoff game, after Cleghorn viciously cross checked Lionel Hitchmen, his own team fined and suspended him for the rest of the playoffs. The decision was even handed down before the NHL had time to rule on it. Tired of Cleghorn's ruthlessness and undisciplined play, the Senators decided on releasing the most feared man in hockey in 1921. The league assigned him to the Hamilton Tigers but the Montreal Canadiens desperately wanted the local native as a drawing card for home games. They executed one of the first trades in league history, as Montreal sent Harry Mummery, Cully Wilson and Amos Arbour for Cleghorn and defenseman Bill Couture. Cleghorn was very upset with Ottawa for letting him go, and was determined to get revenge the only way he knew how. In one of the first clashes between Cleghorn's new team versus his old, reports claimed prior to the game that Sprague would settle the score once and for all with Ottawa for dropping him after he helped them win the 1920 Stanley Cup. He would go on to viciously injure 4 Senator players - Cy Denneny, Frank Nighbor, Tommy Gorman and Eddie Gerard. Cleghorn's disgraceful conduct in resulted police action and even league movement to ban him from the NHL for life. Reportedly two teams would not agree to the ban. Despite such actions, Cleghorn continually produced results, including helping the Habs win their first Stanley Cup as a member of the National Hockey League. After a stint with the Boston Bruins, Cleghorn, once described by an NHL official as "a disgrace," retired in 1928. His numbers were unarguably great - 84 goals and 123 points in 256 games as a defenseman. His PIMs total was 489. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Russ Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 Bobby Clarke probably. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullMetalOilDrum Posted November 25, 2012 Share Posted November 25, 2012 If you want to go far back enough, I would probably say Eddie Shore. Claude Lemieux comes pretty close too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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