Psychos: Gino Odjick vs Steve Durbano, RD3

[Humpzilla]

Steve Durbano vs Gino Odjick

vs.

Crazy vs F'n Nutz. Both guys probably made refs & linesmen re-think their professions on a nightly basis.

Now remember -- this is which guy could out-crazy, get out-fined, out-suspended. This has nothing to do with how good a fighter a person was. This was, if pushed hard enough, which one would SNAP and go the farthest?

[acd1]

Stevie D wins it with his good looks.

[Juha82]

Odjick is friendly looking to me BUT
hes just so crazy hockye player.
I picked him.

[Sputnik]

Gino Odjick, no question. He's a lock for the final with Gaetz.

[staal4pm]

After seeing that OTR interview with Gino my opinion of him changed. I'm not sure if he's so much crazy as just dumb as a brick and doesn't know any better. Don't sell Steve Durbano short that guy was an absolute maniac....

[nasty]

I;ll go with Steve ( may he rest in peace).. met him many moons ago when he played junior with the Toronto Marlboros.. Have seen some pretty wild stuff of Durby when he played junior. but he always took the time to stop & chat with me & my buddy,, R.I..P big Steve !

[Odjick29]

Gino on the sauce was a crazy as they come - Gino off the sauce, totally different guy and fighter

[Blouin]

Gino

[Mike Kole]

Went with Durbano. The guy would go ape crap unpredictably. Gino always seemed to have a reason, which was bolstered by the interview.

Plus, Gino never mooned anyone to my knowledge. If you think mooning the crowd, as Durbano did, is a good idea, you probably were certifiable.

[peacemaker]

Gino's the all time greatest Canuck, but Durbano was off his rocker, can't function in the world we live in type of crazy.
As stated above, Gino's craziness was more calculated.

Durbano could be set off by a mosquito bite, the sun coming up too eraly in the day etc...

This was a no brainer for me. Durbano is much crazier than Gino or Link.

[Mike Kole]

Narrow win for Gino. Gotta think that not enough folks remember just how nuts Durbano was. Played a long time ago, isn't a huge amount of footage, etc.

[Wendel_Clark_17]

Durbano. He was arrested for cocaine trafficking, running an escort service, and a few other things after hockey. He moved to the Northwest Territories to get some peace as he was dying of Liver cancer (might have been Cirrosis of the Liver).

[nasty]

Steve Durbano
They called him "Demolition Durby" and "Mental Case Durbano." He is perhaps hockey's baddest man - both on and off the ice.

Durbano was a journeyman defenseman for parts of 6 NHL seasons. His toughness was legendary, and also the reason he was so highly touted when he came out of junior. He was drafted 13th overall in the 1971 Entry Draft by the New York Rangers. The Rangers passed on names like Terry O'Reilly and Larry Robinson to get Durbano.

The Rangers, however, traded Steve before he even played a game in the NHL. He ended up in St. Louis where he made his NHL debut in the 1972-73 season. He would go on to play with Pittsburgh, Kansas City/Colorado before returning to St. Louis in 1978 to finish his career. Durbano scored 13 goals and 73 points in 220 NHL games.

Durbano sat out 1127 PIM in his 220 NHL games, a average of over 5 minutes a game! The 5.1 PIM per game is the highest mark for anyone with more than 1000 minutes. When the Broad Street Bullies were brawling their way through the mid-seventies, Durbano led the league in penalty minutes with 370. When asked who was the toughest player of his day was, he'd always answer "I was. I still have all my teeth, and I'm proud of that."

Many of Durbano's fights didn't happen on the ice. He was an alcoholic and routinely was in bar room brawls wherever he went. But the bar room brawls almost seem saintly compared to some of the other stuff Durbano has done in his life. In 1983 he was convicted for drug trafficking and in 1998 he was found guilty of running a prostitution ring.

In December 1998, The Hockey News ran an article on hockey's baddest player. Durbano has moved to Yellowknife, Northwest Territories. He moved to the "Gateway to the Arctic" to escape his past and start over. The article said that Durbano was cleaning up his act somewhat - he worked hard as an Electrolux salesman and claimed to have given up cocaine.