Tough Guy Encounters

[NameyMD]

Originally Posted by GassiusClay

Kruse ended up being one of the nicest, most humble people I have ever had the privilege to meet. Outstanding human being.

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Myhres vs Kruse 1/9/99 - YouTube

[mikebflorida]

Originally Posted by NameyMD

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Myhres vs Kruse 1/9/99 - YouTube

Yeah, totally uncool of Kruse, what a douche thing to do.

I've met Myhers and he was a quiet, nice kid who really struggled with being an NHL player. He got a lot of chances because the hockey community is a close knit community and he had the skills to be a top NHL heavyweight but seriously struggled with substance abuse. You don't make fun of that. Ever.

Would Kruse make fun of a crippled person? It's the same thing, real low brow and Brantt reamed him in that fight by the way.

[GOON 21]

Originally Posted by mikebflorida

Yeah, totally uncool of Kruse, what a douche thing to do.

I've met Myhers and he was a quiet, nice kid who really struggled with being an NHL player. He got a lot of chances because the hockey community is a close knit community and he had the skills to be a top NHL heavyweight but seriously struggled with substance abuse. You don't make fun of that. Ever.

Would Kruse make fun of a crippled person? It's the same thing, real low brow and Brantt reamed him in that fight by the way.

I wouldnt quite equate it with a crippled person, thats not a fair comparison


Is it classless? silly and does he deserve another beatdown? -- yea sure, but i wouldnt equate that that gesture to making fun of a crippled person, not the same thing imo


Funny to hear who else mocked him in that audio, Mr Stevens, Scott was another very emotional player who was capable of being a jerk-idiot on ice. Its a looong season with lots of hitting and emotion, sometimes stupid shyt happens

[BaddaBing Badda Boom]

...I think this is my favorite thread ever...If I might suggest giving this topic/thread permanent status in the mold of top 10, Old Farts - so people can add to it as we go along.

[FistofFury]

I was walking behind Gaetz outside the rink after he didn't do well in the infamous Hockey Gladiators tournament. I wanted to talk to him but my common sense screamed to leave him be. He was one of my favorite fighters back in the day but all I could picture was this monster getting pissed and pummeling me in the parking lot. I've got a couple cool pics as well. One with Odjick pretending we are going to fight and the other pretending I was about to go with Jim Mckenzie! Super nice guys. Funny thing is my heart started pounding both times even though we were just taking playful pictures. The first pic was with Gino and when he cocked his left way back that's when I fully understood just how tough these guys truly are.

[fansince65]

If any of you guys ever get the chance to play in an alumni game against the NHL old timers do so , you will never regret it .
I have played in a few of them , some of the NHL teams include some of the old time tough guys , I played in one that had Tiger Williams on their team , he is a riot when he played for the old timers , him and I got in a little jostling match , when we served our penalties he came over to my bench with me and sat beside me , when the Ref asked what the he!! he was doing his answer was "I am playing with this guy for the rest of the game , he is the only one in this game that has shown me any balls" ..

[bigtoughguy]

LOL at Tiger Williams.

When I was a kid we used to cut school and go watch the Devils and visiting teams practice at Ice World in Totowa NJ. One day we saw the Winnipeg Jets were there. Remember seeing Jim Kyte, Laurie Boschman, Andy McBain, who was a rookie hot shot, and i forget the other Jet vet forward, kind of a smaller guy with a mustache, but he wasn't nice to us at all. But the guy who was most intriguing to me was their tough guy Jimmy Mann, who was infamous at that time for the Paul Gardner assault. I practically begged for his Sherwood and finally one of the teammates said if you get him a bagel from the snack bar you can have the stick. So you know how that turned out and I had an authentic Jimmy Mann Sherwood. I think that same day I spotted Devils coach Tom McVie and started shouting to my friends, "Look it's McVie, McVie!" McVie turned and looked at me and said, "It's MISTER McVie to you kid."

Not long after that we used to play street hockey in Wayne NJ behind a church in a parking lot. And one day Yvan Vautour and Dave Cameron, who resided in the same neighborhood (to our surprise) came out and played with us and talked with us. Talk about being on cloud nine.

[I like Boobs]

Dave Cameron is a really good guy! I worked at his hockey school for a couple years, and he's one of the nicest guys you'll ever meet. Over the Xmas break he took the time to run practices for Minor hockey kids while on his holidays, and was happy to be there.

[Loosey]

I met German Titov in a zellars in Calgary once - he was buying shoes for his kids. I didn't recognize him (my dad did) but I remember wondering why he was in zellars lol.

I also fitted Theron Fleury in a tuxedo for a wedding he was in a year or two ago, I was surprised at how much taller I was then him. This was right around when his book was coming out and he did not seem happy at all. My manager was a diehard Oilers fan and kept "dropping" his tuxedo - he chuckled at that.

I also met a very, very quiet Kiprusoff in a liquor store I worked in. He was with his wife and buying bud light for his birthday. We were doing a NHL hat promotion at the time with the bud light, I asked him what his team was but he didn't take the hat lol.

[smashem]

Originally Posted by Broons66

. Met ultimate B's homer also, the great Derek Sanderson, never looked up at me, just signed.

Left this out awhile back I used to date a girl that was a bartender and Sanderson did a signing there one night, She said he was an jerk, all she did was serve him ginger ale's and he never tipped her. I laugh at it now dating the Biitch, but from what I got from it very arrogant.

[Broons66]

Originally Posted by smashem

Left this out awhile back I used to date a girl that was a bartender and Sanderson did a signing there one night, She said he was an jerk, all she did was serve him ginger ale's and he never tipped her. I laugh at it now dating the Biitch, but from what I got from it very arrogant.

Believe you told me that one time . You must have run into Amonte before who's from Hingham and Kevin Stevens who's from Brockton, no? I remember Stevens did a signing once when he was at the height of his career during his Pittsburgh days. Missed that one. His career fell fast and hard though. Horrible in his short time as a Bruin.

[smashem]

Originally Posted by Broons66

Believe you told me that one time . You must have run into Amonte before who's from Hingham and Kevin Stevens who's from Brockton, no? I remember Stevens did a signing once when he was at the height of his career during his Pittsburgh days. Missed that one. His career fell fast and hard though. Horrible in his short time as a Bruin.

When I ran a club in Norwell the owner Steve Trapelo who played football at BC and the NFL was friends with Stevens seeing he played at BC also. He gave him a free membership. Stevens was one of the biggest dirtbags I have ever met. Stuck up. Never Amonte nor Boyle nor JR though. And they live near me or did.

[Boom Boom Belak]

Doug Gilmour

I was about 12. The Leafs the night before beat Dallas. Wendal Clark scored a hat trick with the game winner in OT and Toronto came back from 5-1to win 6-5 in OT. Anyways,Gilmour had broken his nose and the team was headed out on a road trip the next day. Back in those days of the Gardens the morning after a game we'd go hang outside the Gardens and get autographs of injured players, players not going on road trips and ****. Bob Rouse actually invited my dad and I inside to watch practice before, but anyways. We are about to call it a morning when I see Doug Gilmour standing all by himself by his car beside the Gardens. I ran down to get his autograph and he tells me "Yeah, only if help me move some boxes to my car for me." So I helped move some boxes for him and he signed my jacket and card.

Jeremy Roenick once signed my card and threw my pen in the middle of Younge Street. I was 11 years old. That was the end of getting autographs that day.

[bustoff]

I saw Gilmour at a shopping mall in the St. Louis area just sitting waiting for his Wife to shop I guess. My ex was taking too long to find a pen in her rat nest purse and we got into it. He signed my ticket stub from the night before. Pretty nice guy.

[OLLBLUEEYZ]

Watched the Winter Classic from the Wrigley Roof Tops here in Chicago with Reid Simpson (we have a mutual friend) drank till the wee hours with him after.

Had VIP tickets to the Blackhawks convention and shared a table with Bob Probert and Mikita. Talked for hours with Bob just about everything except Hockey.

two funny stories...
1. While talking to Bob, Stan steals my kid and is showing him off to the other Blackhawks alumni until we noticed him missing.. woops.
2. After that Bob tells my son (2 yrs old at the time) to run over to that weird looking guys table (Bobby Hull) and bring me all the cashews from the mixed nuts bowl. He had to show him what a cashew looked like, but for about an hour... thats what my son was doing for Bob Probert.

Meet Kip Brennen at a Chicago Wolves Game (he was a healthy scratch)