Single Season Domination!

[spiderarms]

We have all been fortunate enough to see many of the NHL's greatest fighters.

Each one of these guys had a season or a few seasons that were "special" because they absolutely dominated their competition despite a tough fight card and various circumstances that existed.

With this in mind, what fighter and what specific season would you rate as the All-Time greatest individual single season performance by an NHL Fighter?

Was it Behn Wilson? Joey Kocur? Clark Gillies? George Laraque? Dave Brown? Bob Probert? Donald Brashear? Tony Twist? Larry Playfair? Bob Nystrom? John Kordic?

Or maybe someone else?

What year was it and why was it the GREATEST SEASON ever?

Let's hear your choice!!!

[Broons66]

For me it would be Bob Probert, 87-88. 398 pims, 62 points. At the time, the league had a tv contract with ESPN, and I'd make sure to catch any of those great Norris Division matchups. Probably the greatest time for physical hockey, every team had 3-4 guys who could fight on their rosters.

[spiderarms]

Originally Posted by Broons66

For me it would be Bob Probert, 87-88. 398 pims, 62 points. At the time, the league had a tv contract with ESPN, and I'd make sure to catch any of those great Norris Division matchups. Probably the greatest time for physical hockey, every team had 3-4 guys who could fight on their rosters.

Probert had several that I thought he was very dominant. The amazing thing about him though was that he could play hockey and was a top notch player as well. Image spending 300-400 minutes in the box and still producing first line points! That's one of the things that made him unique!

[mikebflorida]

Dave Schultz 1974-75

Played 76 games, had 26 points and 472 penalty minutes, played 17 more games in the playoffs adding 5 points and another 83 penalty minutes and won the Stanley Cup.

He had 25 fights in the regular season and 8 more in the playoffs for a total of 33 fights. He fought O'Reilly, Gillies, Irvine, Snepsts, Magnuson, and Unger among many others and thus fought many of the top heavyweights of the year.

He almost singlehandedly changed the way the game was played, requiring teams to stock their rosters with tough players and/or goons to deal with The Hammer. He went about his job like no one else before him. Sure, there were guys who were tough and fought but no one did it like him, the art of intimidation was taken to a whole new level and forced the NHL to change the rules of the game.

No one until maybe Rob Ray and Bob Probert forced the NHL to change how the game was played(the tie down rules).

[srehm1]

I have always felt that Probert's 90-91 season is the greatest of all-time. He had that awesome trilogy of fights against Troy Crowder, the miller fight, the big "all-time" win over Brown, he absolutely destroyd Bob McGill, Darin Kimble, Grimson etc. Just an amazing season full of dominant wins as well as H/L style fights-the only time you saw Probert showboat after a fight with the #1 gesture after sending McGill flying. It also featured one of the most hyped rematch fights of them all. He also beat Maguire, Twist and Churla. He had a bit of everything with that season.

A close second would be Dave brown's 89-90 season.

[vamp09112]

Tony Twist's 95-96 season. Guy was on a path of destruction that season and put multiple guys on the IR with broken bones and other injuries.

[Dark Light]

I always thought the Troy Crowder 1990-1991 was one of the most amazing one season runs ever. Just the way he demolished people that season was just scary.

Unfortunately when he met Kimble and took him for granted that certainly brought Crowder back to earth. But he still ended out the season strong imo.

Link Gaetz 1991-1992 was also another great run. Unfortunately he ended his short stint in the NHL with that accident. I really believe he could of been a champ, it's too bad we never really got to see his full potential.

Even Crowder as well, without his back problems could of reigned supreme for awhile.

[diesel]

As a young kid every Christmas i would get about 10 vhs tapes of the previous seasons hockey fights. Being a Ranger fan in Queens, I didn't get a chance to see a lot of the Western Division during the season. That being said, i remember being VERY impressed with Sandy McCarthy's rookie year in a very tough Western division. He had quite the impressive fight card that 93-94 season and had some pretty impressive victories over Probert, Debrusk 2x, Domi 2x, Baumgartner 2x, Huard, Leroux 2x, Peluso, Severyn and the start of his multiple battles with Jim McKenzie, arguably his only loss that year in a bloody slugfest.

[Blues 34]

Originally Posted by Broons66

For me it would be Bob Probert, 87-88. 398 pims, 62 points. At the time, the league had a tv contract with ESPN, and I'd make sure to catch any of those great Norris Division matchups. Probably the greatest time for physical hockey, every team had 3-4 guys who could fight on their rosters.

That would be my pick

[Merlin401]

Here was my top 25 single seasons of all time. It includes Boogaard's 2005-06 which to me was the last single season of domination by a fighter. So I pretty much stand by this list:

25 Greatest Seasons Ever

[Blues 34]

Heck of a list Merlin

[ThrowdownSJ408]

Originally Posted by Merlin401

Here was my top 25 single seasons of all time. It includes Boogaard's 2005-06 which to me was the last single season of domination by a fighter. So I pretty much stand by this list:

25 Greatest Seasons Ever

great read man, thanks you.