Tim Kerr

[Habs # 1]

Do you guys have any Tim Kerr video clips? goals, fights, anything?


Thanks in advance.

Guy was ****ing mint!!!

Tim Kerr scores four goals in 8:16 against the...

Looking for rare video but any will do guys thanks in advance!

[Kid Roberts]

I never realized that is the guy who owns my SPHL team. O_O

[Flyer_Frank]

Didn't fight much but could do pretty well when he did. Was on his way to a HOF career when injuries stopped him. As quick a release and as good a wrist shot as anyone had in the league in his day and he could beat goalies from the perimeter with it. Probably in my top 10 all time favorite wrist shots. He didn't just score from the crease although he got his share there. One of the strongest guys in the league on the puck, good skater for his size, good both ways and a decent stickhandler. He was probably my first favorite Flyer.

[BENNETTWOLF]

Just an absolute horse of a man. Nearly impossible to dislodge from in front of the net on the PP even for guys like Rod Langway and Scott Stevens. Outstanding player, who i actually liked, but for only a limited run. What was it, 4 straight 50 goal seasons? In my limited memory, one of the very best guys i've ever seen in front of the net.

Not a guy you wanted to get riled up but he had a long fuse. I'm only aware of him losing one fight to Randy Holt who did get an early jump but dominated the scrap. Enough that it probably shouldn't be tainted.

One of the few flyers (a hated rival) that i did really like. Not only respected but liked. Up there with Howe, Marsh and Poulin from that era.

[Schultz]

I'm watching a Philadelphia 1979-80's DVD and Kerr just hammered and bloodied a young Hardy of LA.

[flyersvikes]

Funny that I just realized that him and another goaltenders worst nightmare Garry Dornhoeffer both wore the #12. I remember when his wife died tragically at the age of thirty ten days after giving birth, so sad.

Shattered limb Sturdy oak, Kerr finds life's tree suddenly bare with wife's death
October 17, 1990|By Bill Lyon | Bill Lyon,Philadelphia Inquirer

PHILADELPHIA -- He was an oak, and she was a willow.

He plants himself in front of the net on the hockey rink, tall and strong and unyielding, and defensemen pry and prod and poke at him. But that is like trying to uproot a stump that has been in the ground a long, long time. Tim Kerr will not be budged. They slash and whack at him -- men with no teeth and mean intentions -- but they cannot move him.
Naturally, then, when bulldozers are used in vain, when dynamite won't work, what is called for is a woman.

Naturally, he was a sucker for her.

Naturally, the oak who cannot be dislodged by the toothless muggers turned to helpless mush whenever he was around her.

It is the way of the world.

Kathy Kerr was petite and sinewy, and Tim Kerr planned to spend forever with her.

Except, abruptly, with no regard for anyone's wishes, forever has ended a lot sooner than either one of them planned.

Kathy Kerr, 30, who had given birth to a daughter only days before, died yesterday morning.

It makes no sense. But, then, tragedy hardly ever does.

What happened is one more wrenching reminder that, while life can be so very, very sweet for our sporting heroes, it also can be so very, very cruel.

From the outside, Tim Kerr would seem to have lucked into all that we envy. One day, he was a 17-year-old kid from Windsor, Ontario, just across the river from Detroit, making $18 a week playing junior hockey, and the next, he was a professional athlete, the Philadelphia Flyers' top gun, with a paycheck swollen with zeroes and commas, with a summer home at the shore and a speedboat, with idolaters craving his autograph, with worshipers craving to cater to his every whim.

What was not to like?

There was, of course, a price. There is always a price. And, usually, the greater the reward, the higher the price. Tim Kerr's bills took the form of shoulder surgery. Over and over, so many operations. They went into his shoulder so many times, it would have been more convenient just to put a zipper in, rather than stitches. And, always, there were the drudgery and the pain and the boredom of rehabilitation.

And, always, there was his wife. For reassurance. For support. For comfort. Always, the oak had the willow.

Tim Kerr, also 30, knew he was playing on borrowed time. His shoulder reminded him. So he was never as blinded by being a celebrity, as some of them are.

Three summers ago, when the metal screw that had been put in after yet another operation came loose -- they told him the reason was that his shoulders were too big! -- he said:

"This isn't something I'm happy about, but I'm not going to ruin my life over missing a couple of hockey games when all you have to do is look around a little bit to see what life is all about."

He showed a nice sense of balance, a nice perspective.

And they lived it, too -- the oak and the willow.

They gave back.

Tim Kerr runs a hockey school every summer. He has organized an annual summer run in Avalon, N.J., that raises thousands for the blind. Kathy Kerr was chairwoman of the annual Flyers' Wives Fight for Lives Carnival last winter. It raised $760,000 to fight leukemia.

Yes, the oak and the willow had it together. They had each other. They had their dogs. They had a stepdaughter, and after Kathy Kerr suffered miscarriages, they adopted a little girl.

And, as is so often the case, not long after they adopted, Kathy Kerr learned that she was pregnant.

When the Flyers opened their 1990-91 home season 10 days ago, the message board above center ice flashed congratulations to Tim and Kathy Kerr on the birth of daughter Kimberly.

The Flyers won.

Their first goal was scored by Tim Kerr.

On a rebound.

From right in front of the net.

Right where the oak always takes root.

Now the oak has lost the willow.

In all that he has endured, Tim Kerr has adhered to the athlete's credo of striving for equilibrium.

"I don't get too high in good times," he said in an interview last winter, "and I don't get too low in bad times. Listen, if you're looking for real troubles, you don't have to look too far in this world."

When all of the tears have finally been cried, there will be one comfort for Tim Kerr in his agony, one source of solace, and that is that the willow has left behind for the oak a living reminder of herself and of what they had together.
http://articles.baltimoresun.com/199...hy-kerr-willow

[NameyMD]

I've always or at least ever since I learned about him thought it kinda weird such a powerhouse scorer isn't better known or higher ranked among alltime NHL forwards -

[darius]

Originally Posted by Flyer_Frank

Didn't fight much but could do pretty well when he did. Was on his way to a HOF career when injuries stopped him. As quick a release and as good a wrist shot as anyone had in the league in his day and he could beat goalies from the perimeter with it. Probably in my top 10 all time favorite wrist shots. He didn't just score from the crease although he got his share there. One of the strongest guys in the league on the puck, good skater for his size, good both ways and a decent stickhandler. He was probably my first favorite Flyer.

Ah, he fought more then you think. He was by no means a "fighter" but he held his own when the time called. He had more then the average for a non-fighter. He was big, strong and had a tremendous left. I would equate Tim Kerr to Eric Lindros during his time.

[Flyer_Frank]

Originally Posted by darius

Ah, he fought more then you think. He was by no means a "fighter" but he held his own when the time called. He had more then the average for a non-fighter. He was big, strong and had a tremendous left. I would equate Tim Kerr to Eric Lindros during his time.

Early on he did, his first couple years but after he established himself nobody really looked to fight him and he didn't play with much of a mean streak, just stuck to the game. As much as a Kerr fan as I was, I wouldn't equate him with Lindros in any aspect of the game. Kerr was a top right wing in his day where Lindros was the best player in the world in his.

[darius]

I'm not "equating" him in comparison to Lindros' overall game. I'm equating him to Lindros' strength and capacity to beat guys down when he did fight. Which in and of itself is what gave Tim Kerr that uncanny ability to find himself virtually untouchable in front of the net.

They played the same amount of years and Kerr had a little over half the amount of fights Eric had. So ya, they're kinda the same in that "willing to go" department.

[GOON 21]

I kinda remember that Kerr story about his wife, that was very sad


Its funny when we were kids back then we would laugh (Flayer fans and haters) that Kerr would score 'cheap goals' as we would say ooo thats a Tim Ker goal lol, he would just stand 5-10 feet out the crease and be a pain the azz to move


Physical wise, he was 'capable' of scrapping when he wanted to go, but Tim had a loooong fuse. I dont think he could hitpeople or check people like Lindros or skate like Lindros, (Eric better skater) so while there maybe some simularities --- I do think there was some differences among them and Lindros was more willing to get engaged physically and also had 'more physcical tools' in his shed than Kerr imo

[darius]

I guess we'll agree to disagree. Again, I'm not equating anything about Kerr's game as a goal scorer to Lindros. The point seems to be missed there.

I've got about 20 of Kerr's fights on my site and if you watch them, take note the majority are sound beatings handed down by Tim. He had a hammer for a left. And Like Lindros, many of his fights were 'NOT' against top calibre enforcers. Mainly because Kerr, Like Lindros was not a fighter.

Fuse or no fuse, if you're not a fighter to begin with fuse doesn't matter.

[GOON 21]

Originally Posted by darius

I guess we'll agree to disagree. Again, I'm not equating anything about Kerr's game as a goal scorer to Lindros. The point seems to be missed there.

I've got about 20 of Kerr's fights on my site and if you watch them, take note the majority are sound beatings handed down by Tim. He had a hammer for a left. And Like Lindros, many of his fights were 'NOT' against top calibre enforcers. Mainly because Kerr, Like Lindros was not a fighter.

Fuse or no fuse, if you're not a fighter to begin with fuse doesn't matter.

Ooo dont get me wrong, Kerr could scrap when he wanted and was physical 'at times' (Im with ya) but i dont think he had the willingness to mix it up like Eric or the physical tools


Lindros was almost transformational as a player when he came into the league, he could skate circles around Tim, he hit like a freightrain, (He hurt people on checks) drop the gloves more and just generally a bigger 'on ice presence' than Kerr, you couldnt take your eyes off Lindros when he was on ice, you were seeing what he was going to do next!!


He was just a physical freak when he came into the league and on a different level than most guys, man was he fun to watch

[mikebflorida]

I understand the comparison to Lindros, both were very skilled players and if you pissed them off, LOOK OUT!

Kerr was a great player, arguably my favorite in the mid 80's, he was just a beast on the power play and saw him win some fights quite handily and wondered why anyone would ever mess with him, he was just so big and strong.

That story about his wife is just crushing, I couldn't even imagine the pain.

[darius]

To this day he's the only guy I've seen who could wear 2-3 players draped all over him driving to the net and top shelf a one handed wrist shot. I've never seen anybody whip a one hander like he could.