Cheap Shots on Cheapshot Artists

[PastorJ]

Reading the Ulf Samualsson thread got me thinking about this one. Cheap shot artists. Everyone hates them, unless they're on your team. Then, you've got to like them at least a little. You know the guys I'm talking about. They're always clutching, grabbing, hacking, whacking, punching, elbowing, slashing, cross-checking away from the play or long after the play is over, like some English pig. They're the guys making the dirty hits and then skating away like nothing happened. They're the guys that make you fear for the safety of your favorite player.

The one thing people can usually agree on is that they'd like to see these guys get a taste of they're own medicine. And every once in a while, it actually happens. Someone actually puts a heck of a powerful cheap shot on them. Justice is served. You, sir, have received your comeuppance.

A couple come to mind:

1) Tie Domi knocks out Ulf Samuelsson. (See the Ulf Samuelsson thread for video).

2) Decemeber 21, 2005 Jordin Tootoo is up to his usual tricks in a game at Chicago. Now, with a first name of questionable gender and a last name phonetically equivalent to the skirt a ballerina wears, I'd imagine you'd have to learn to get in your shots when you can. Anyway, midway through the third period, Tootoo starts hacking away at Todd Simpson behind the play as they skate down the ice. Finally, Simpson has had enough. Without issuing a challenge, he proceeds to drop the gloves and pound Tootoo with 6 or 7 good punches that splatter his nose and leaves him losing more blood than my sister the first time she shaved her legs. The crowd went crazy. Simpson picked up 27 minutes of penalties. Judging by the smile on his face as he skated off, I'm guessing it was worth it.

3) Stanley Cup Playoffs, 1995. The series between the Quebec Nordiques and the New York Rangers. Jeff Beukeboom, the Rangers resident cheapshot man at the time, has had his usual game. At some point during the game, He lines up Owen Nolan, who is charging down the ice with the puck, for an open-ice, flip-over-the-shoulder hit right at center ice. However, Nolan sees Beukeboom put his head down. Nolan sidesteps the hit and catches Beukeboom in the melon with an elbow on the way by, laying Beukeboom out like a corpse. In the confusion that follows, Nolan doesn't even get called for a penalty. There's a faceoff and play continues. Beukeboom missed the rest of the series with a concussion.

These are some of my favorites. If anyone has video of the last two, please post it. I couldn't find it anywhere. Anybody else got any?

[battleship25]

Howat's sucker punch on Cashman.

[PastorJ]

Originally Posted by battleship25

Howat's sucker punch on Cashman.

I believe this is the incident you're referring to. The punch in question comes at about the 4:30 mark of this video.

YouTube - Islanders vs Bruins, 1980 Playoffs Game...

[Blouin]

Nilan cheapshot on Bruin player and Miller trying to get at him

[NJDevils17]

Darren McCarty throwing somewhat of a suckerpunch then kneeing Claude Lemieux in that brawl in 97.

[MrFrost]

Here ya go PastorJ

YouTube - Rangers - Nordiques (my highlights)...

YouTube - Tootoo vs Simpson

[PastorJ]

Originally Posted by MrFrost

Here ya go PastorJ

Mr. Frost, you're my hero...

[MrFrost]

ahhhhhhhh you say that to all the boys

[canuckfan]

Matt Cooke has had a dose of his own medicine on a few occasions - the ugly stick swinging incident with Matt Johnson back in 2002 rings a bell...I was surprised at first that Johnson stooped to that level, but then you remember the cheapshot on Beaukeboom, and you realize Johnson wasn't beneath anything....

[Brawler42]

Dec 1999 Odjick on Kasparaitis.

[Juha82]

Simon to Hollweg(famous cross-check to the face)
Tucker to Kovalev
Kovalev to Tucker(bad elbows)

[chrisuplscrblnk]

YouTube - Matt Johnson Ends

[2,5,10GameMatch]

Domi on Ulf was #1, no question BUT

I couldnt have been more pleased when that "number humper" Jimmy Korn grabbed the much smaller Dale Hunter and throttling him with a vicious mugging in the '88 playoffs, I think if it had of been anyone else 'Cracked' Korn may have been suspended but since it was the ass biter Hunter, it was overlooked....

Not sure if they were dirty players or not but Bob McMillan(NJ) tuned up Korn's(Tor) mug with his stick in New Jersey and I also saw Mark Napier appearing to try and relieve Korn of one of his eyes with the blade of his Titan in a pre-season game in Toronto....

Paul Gardner was never a willing fighter but I had heard he was pretty adept with his stick, which probably led to his jaw malfunction from the left hand of Jimmy Mann....

[PastorJ]

I was reluctant to put the Matt Johnson suckerpunch on Jeff Beukeboom in here, because while everyone likes to see a cheapshot guy get his due, no one wants to see his career ended like that.

[StealinUrCar06]

Simon on Hollweg