Donald Brashear

[RayzorEdge]

Originally Posted by RetardedChimp

Andrew_Peters76 in full on troll mode lately. What's wrong guy, bad holiday?

You can fuck off with FilthyPhila if you've got nothing more to add.

[RayzorEdge]

Originally Posted by pingpang69

Brashear beating up Andrew Peters and flooring Boulton are a couple more good Brashear fights. You mean the nothing fight he had against Thornton in Jan. 2010? That fight was a $hit draw. The two fights he had against Thornton in 2008 were good ones, and Brashear won both.

Yeah the one in 2010 and Thornton won that one. Nothing spectacular like Belak's KO, but he still scored a clear victory. The Peters fight was a classic hang on for dear life and throw noggies match. That Boulton fight was pretty good for last three seconds.

Brashear did get the home crowd going and his teammates in the game. When he was with the Flyers he did that countless times. If you want to watch a boring fighter, then you should get a Darren Langdon DVD. With that you'll have an endless amount of fights with nothing more than grappling and pillow punches.

They both have the same style. Look, if that gets you going, fine. Personally, I'd rather see a slugfest. Even most who have defended Brashear here will admit his style wasn't much fun to watch. You can tell who the homer is when they point out a typical Brashear fight and say it was great.

I'm just speaking the truth man. What's most annoying are the Brashear haters. You can be a very intelligent hockey fight fan, but when one is an intelligent fight fan and a Brashear hater, all the sudden what that person says is equivalent to Youtube comments.

A homer statement if ever I saw one.

[acdcrocksno1]

Originally Posted by RayzorEdge

You can fuck off with FilthyPhila if you've got nothing more to add.

Such foul language from one so mild it must have been a really bad holiday

[smashem]

Originally Posted by RetardedChimp

^ Pretending you were sober enough to remember. Classic!

After he tuned McSorley up 6 times, one of which was so bad that McSorley got dropped. It was the last resort of one of Brashear's biggest punching bags.

All drunken homering aside, I think it would be extremely interesting to see what Brashear would have done to McSorley if he ever played against him again. With Brashear's track record of goonery, I think it's safe to say it would not have been pretty.

Yeah he must have really hurt Marty, seeing Marty was chasing him down the ice to fight. Go watch it FACT. Bottom line he did catch his attention didn't he, Oh wait a minute maybe he didn't he was out cold , Top 5 hugger behind Stortini, Torrie Robertson and i am sure we can think of 2 others. I mean my god what was his NICK NAME

[cookie monster]

Originally Posted by smashem

Yeah he must have really hurt Marty, seeing Marty was chasing him down the ice to fight. Go watch it FACT. Bottom line he did catch his attention didn't he, Oh wait a minute maybe he didn't he was out cold , Top 5 hugger behind Stortini, Torrie Robertson and i am sure we can think of 2 others. I mean my god what was his NICK NAME

Do you not remember they fight earlier in the game and Marty got dusted?

Marty clubbed him because earlier in the game Brashear took out Byron Dafoe, ending his season.

Again, I've never heard anyone outside of here call him "huggy bear", but I have heard Lucic called "Lu- chicken" in many conversations for pissing himself when Mr Friendly came calling, so by your logic, nicknames mean something, eh?

Enforcer of the Decade 2000-2010 by the hockey news...nuff said.

Oh, he also played in TWO World Championships, scoring 5 points in 8 games in 1997.

[mikebflorida]

Brashear threads suck. Here is yet another one.

The only thing it proves is that he was one of the most polarizing figures to ever lace up skates in the NHL.

I've beaten this dead horse too much but just to add my .02 to yet another Brashear sucks/Brasher was god thread, he had very good skills, a very good fight card, a very good record thanks to a lot of cheap victories(hug, noogie, noogie, noogie, hug, bail)some very dominating victories, and some horrendous losses.

He was a spot picker, a thug/bully, a fake glove dropper, a cheap shot artist, a bailer, a seat belter, and a very good fighter. That's it, that's all.

He could have been the best of all time but he wasn't, it's that bloody simple. His style afforded him a very long career in the NHL, he rarely got hurt and didn't like to get hit so he tied up as well as anyone ever has so he wouldn't get hit. When he was getting hit, he'd often bail out to avoid further abuse.

That doesn't make me a Brashear hater, it makes me an objective fight fan who hated his style, hated watching 95% of his fights because they were boring as fockall, and hated listening to the handful of fans polish his knob at every opportunity when they'd say he "beat the living sh1t out his opponent" when in fact all he did was throw 6 or 7 shots to the back of his head and then wrestle him to the ice or call the linesmen in to add another notch to his belt.

His antics, the palm washing, the trash talking, the cheap shots, the piano playing retardedness during a square off, that's what makes me loathe the guy, he was begging to be hated the minute he got called up to the NHL but some people like that non-sense. Some people like Sean Avery and Matt Cooke too, it is what it is but I know this, he's got a hell of a lot more haters than lovers and the lovers are so friggin adamant, spiteful, and hateful of the haters, it's very obvious but I suppose if I liked a guy like Brashear who has so many more fans that hate him, I'd kind of feel like an idiot and take it out on others. I'm glad I'm not one of those people.

Onward

[smashem]

Originally Posted by cookie monster

Do you not remember they fight earlier in the game and Marty got dusted?

Marty clubbed him because earlier in the game Brashear took out Byron Dafoe, ending his season.

Again, I've never heard anyone outside of here call him "huggy bear", but I have heard Lucic called "Lu- chicken" in many conversations for pissing himself when Mr Friendly came calling, so by your logic, nicknames mean something, eh?

Enforcer of the Decade 2000-2010 by the hockey news...nuff said.

Oh, he also played in TWO World Championships, scoring 5 points in 8 games in 1997.

To answer your first question, yes he did beat Marty. But question is why did he turn him down the same game, I know, I know he had nothing to prove right. Question number #2 i cannot re-call Looch holding on. And as far as Mr Friendly came calling if you are referring to BGL. Looch joked and said i do not kick old mens asses

[29th_Candidate]

Originally Posted by cookie monster

Do you not remember they fight earlier in the game and Marty got dusted?

Marty clubbed him because earlier in the game Brashear took out Byron Dafoe, ending his season.

Again, I've never heard anyone outside of here call him "huggy bear", but I have heard Lucic called "Lu- chicken" in many conversations for pissing himself when Mr Friendly came calling, so by your logic, nicknames mean something, eh?

Enforcer of the Decade 2000-2010 by the hockey news...nuff said.

Oh, he also played in TWO World Championships, scoring 5 points in 8 games in 1997.

Thanks for the reminder. I often forget Huggy Bear's real name is Donald Brashear.

[RetardedChimp]

Mikeb, the haters outnumber the 'lovers' by a wide margin. It has only been recently that people have been putting their bias aside and Brashear has been starting to get the props he deserves for being such a monster throughout his career. People still have issues seeing him objectively, and that's fine, but threads like his usually turn to sh*t due to the blind hatred a lot of people have for him.

I'm hopeful that 10 years from now your outlook on Brashear might be completely different.

PS- AP76, I'm sorry you had a bad holiday. Things will get better.

PPS- There are other threads where people can discuss Lucic p*ssing out from Laraque. This one is about Donald Brashear.

[Phila26Flyers]

Originally Posted by RayzorEdge

You can fuck off with FilthyPhila if you've got nothing more to add.

Speaking of which, what are you still doing here, Brashear hater with more posts in this thread than I do?

[cookie monster]

Originally Posted by 29th_Candidate

Thanks for the reminder. I often forget Huggy Bear's real name is Donald Brashear.

Actually, Huggy Bears real name is Antonio Vargas. As usual you couldn't be more wrong.

[cookie monster]

Originally Posted by smashem

To answer your first question, yes he did beat Marty. But question is why did he turn him down the same game, I know, I know he had nothing to prove right. Question number #2 i cannot re-call Looch holding on. And as far as Mr Friendly came calling if you are referring to BGL. Looch joked and said i do not kick old mens asses

#1 It had nothing to do with "proving anything" lok. He didn't want to. Brashear was also a master at getting under the skin if other enforcers.

#2 No he didn't. Lucic May have pussed out, but I don't think he would be that disrespectful.

[smashem]

Seems to me like the ones that like him, are Huggynuts. How many teams did he play for just curious off the top of my head 4-5.

[RayzorEdge]

Originally Posted by pingpang69

That fight with Thornton was a draw, nothing more, they both fell to the ice right away. Brashear beat Peters' ass in the second fight and dropped Boulton like a sack of bricks during the 2003 scrap.




Everyone loves slugfests, but people also love beatdowns. Brashear and Langdon DO NOT have the same style. Langdon's style was to hold on forever and throw weak pillow punches at the end of the fight. Brashear on the other hand would demolish his opponents with his sledgehammer lefts.



Just take a look at your comments man!

We're going around in circles here. You can argue whether or not his fight style was acceptable for you, but you can't escape from the fact that he hugged and noogied his way to most victories. Put that together with all of his showboating, and you have in my mind the most overrated fighter on this site.

On another note, it's obvious that Flyers fans have once again taken the titles of biggest trolls and homers from Bruin fans.

[mikebflorida]

Originally Posted by RetardedChimp

Mikeb, the haters outnumber the 'lovers' by a wide margin. It has only been recently that people have been putting their bias aside and Brashear has been starting to get the props he deserves for being such a monster throughout his career. People still have issues seeing him objectively, and that's fine, but threads like his usually turn to sh*t due to the blind hatred a lot of people have for him.

He's in my top 10, I've given him every bit of credit he deserves, no more and no less. What else do you want me to do?

I didn't like him as a player most of the time but was objective enough to rank him among the top 10 greatest fighters ever. That's a pretty huge accolade and shows I'm not biased when ranking fighters.

When Belak Ko'd him, I was one of the happiest guys around, couldn't have happened to a nicer guy until Matt Cooke got KO'd by Evander Kane.