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Old 12-21-2012, 12:18 PM
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IMHO , Probert did this more than anyone. Maybe not always a turtle, but he had so many guys suckered in dropping their gloves :
J.Carlson
Cochrane (at least 2x)
Semenko(jumping)
Maguire (same took the shots- Maguire got the penalty)
Fotiu of course !! (apparently twice)
Grant Jennings
Clark
Nylund
and many others

Why?? Because he became so valuable that he couldn't be fighting every lunkhead that challenged him. This got the Wings a lot of penalties ..and the funny thing is Probie scored a ton of PP goals (I think 20 in his best yr). He still had time to fight over 300+ times..incredible. But he was great at it..making it look like he wanted to fight..but he just wanted to draw the penalty. It was part of his unpredictability .

Now as far as pure turtling ..no one beat Baxter...so hated , everyone wanted to kill him ...but on occasion he could fight(ask Kev. Mac..they had a couple of tremendous t2t bouts).

Once the instigator rule came that's when the fake glove drop exploded...everyone was doing it. Trying to get the other guy to take the penalty.

Brad Smith (TOR) turtled standing up at the STL net when Norwood just suckered him when Smith thought the coast was clear ..LOL. Almost closed his eye shut.
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