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Originally Posted by Johnny Pie
Couple of others I remember involve a player who is always
talked about for the fights he lost. Keith Magnuson.
Well he Ko'd Earl Heiskala of the Flyers who was supposed
to be a tough guy and of course his one punch on Carol Vadnais. Keith did have his moments.
Both of these are on video.
Here is a pic of the Earl Heiskala KO. Earl was busted up pretty good.
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Earl Heiskala, the original Broad Street Bully, lol.
That Magnuson KO was kind of funny because the Flyers brought up Heiskala as a result of the beating they took from the Blues in the 68 playoffs. During that series, the Blues hammered the Flyers with the Plagers and
Noel Picard running roughshod over them. It all culminated with the Picard suckerpunch on
Claude LaForge. That was when Ed Snider had seen enough and determined that he was going to build a team that would never be intimidated again.
It was shortly after those playoffs that they brought in their first goon,
Earl Heiskala. He then proceeded to get knocked out by Magnuson, lol.
Obvisouly, the Flyers got a lot better in choosing their goons after Heiskala.
There was an interesting rookie game back in 1978 between the
Washington Capitals and
Philadelphia Flyers in Hershey that featured 9 fights. It is also an interesting side story to the Fotiu/Cunningham brawl.
While this was billed as a rookie game, there was some bad blood between these teams and everyone knew this game would be fight filled so Washington sent
Gary Rissling and Brent Tremblay,
Paul Mulvey,
Gord Lane,
Nelson Burton,
Mark Lofthouse and Mark Toffolo down to play in this game. Since this game happened to be on the same day as the Fotiu/Cunningham brawl, both Cunningham and Cochrane weren't in this game as they were called up to play for the big squad that day, otherwise, they'd have been there for that rookie game. There were 9 fights without Cunningham and Cochrane. Imagine if they'd have been there, lol.
The unheralded KO came in the form of
Paul Mulvey vs a guy named Mike Simurda. Now Mulvey had a huge rep and Simurda was not regarded as much of a fighter. It was comical actually as Mulvey kept goading Simurda into dropping the gloves, but Simurda was very reluctant. When he finally did, he nailed Mulvey with a wicked right and down goes Mulvey, lol. As far as I'm concerned, couldn't have happened to a better guy as we now know that Mulvey would later become the poster child for the anti-fighting movement.