Hell yeah it was! I played in the 90's cause of the late 80's and Early 90's players and fighter goons like Bob Probert hell all the wings for that matter way better games! 🇺🇲🇨🇦🥁😉👍🥂🍾🍻😢
@@koensworski7499 what are you taking about ? No , todays game doesn’t hold a candle to the game back then and the amount of Hall of Famers ( found in abundance and in the apex of their careers through so many of the NHL teams . Can you count how many were present in just these two teams alone in the video ? ) . Then compare that to today where you’re lucky if there is maybe one or two hall of famers present in any given team . Who STILL in comparison to the HOF players of the 80s , 90s and early 2000s HOF STILL pale in comparison to the legends - found in abundance - who played back then . Their numbers and the battles those guys fought on the ice with the scars to boot prove it. Todays game is a generic collective bargaining agreement league with too much revenue sharing creating a league with waaaay too much parity giving you a watered down and bloated mundane generic product . A “ pussified “ product at that with a culture of little boys who care more about their hair then they do about any hard nosed playing and fighting to administer the “ former “ laws in the ice. This was made readily convenient to such pussy players of today with the amount of rule changes to accommodate the Nancy boy players of today who would never lasted 3 min the NHL of the 70s to early 2000s . Shit up kid you don’t know shit and I am not even in my mid 40s yet.
My old buddy Jay Sharres! Handled Hunter like a boss. What a body he had. Remember once at an after softball tourney pool party the ladies couldn't keep their eyes off of him. Even the two open lesbian players! Did about 50 pullups under the diving board, only time in my life i ever wished i was gay.
Kevin Gunnery i dunno, John D'Amico was one tough mofo. Not big like Jay physically but larger in attitude! Wasn't afraid to toss a player on his keister with as much force he deemed enjoyable. Although the best linesman moment i've seen is Ron Asselstine's! Here's a link to that one! www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/2pnqmb/bruins_fan_jumps_the_glass_jogs_towards_referee/
Momesso was one of the dirtiest SOBs I've ever seen, especially in the 1994 Stanley Cup finals. But he was only one part of a really dirty team which was a reflection of their Neanderthal of a coach. Pat Quinn was a disgrace--PERIOD.
Rangers fighters jump a bunch of non-fighters for Vancouver. Next shift, Hunter goes after Graves. John Davidson " I dont understand what Vancouver is doing here". Really, John
That Canucks team in 93/94 was a fun one to watch. Tough and high powered offense it was hard to be more entertaining than them. Imagine a lineup facing Gino Odjick, Shawn Antoski, Tim Hunter, Sergio Momesso...even their defensemen were tough with Murzyn, Dirk and Diduck. And then when an opposition player thought they were going after some low-hanging fruit and pick on Pavel Bure they'd find out real quick and the hard way that he was not someone to be messed with either.
@KoivuTheHab I'm late to this party but am I right in assuming that "Pow!! Right in the kisser" was a fella that deleted his own comments? If I'm wrong, and you have a nervous tick that makes you say "Pow!! Right in the Kisser", well, that would be pretty fantastic too!
@@herbjergens6350 LOL Nikita Zadorov, Nazem Kadri and Gabe Landeskog would match up just fine in a fight but also be able to skate circles around them. Hockey has changed for the better
@@herbjergens6350 Fine, you want a response? You're the one that's delusional for thinking that players were "bigger and stronger" back then. They're actually stronger, faster and smarter these days. Also, I'm not the only one who thinks hockey has changed for the better. Players aren't getting hurt as often, elongating careers, and the focus is more on skill and finesse rather than just pure strength and size. If you're into the needless fighting and bench clearing brawls, than you're the same as the "goons" back then. A dying breed, and most people are happy to see it leave the game
@Herb Jergens That is exactly why I chose to reply with no comment at first. There was no need to converse with you because you wouldn't have anything sensible to say
@@saiyansatan I think is the one that's delusional the good old days was excllent hockey to watch Nowadays it's water down bullshit with too many teams and over paid players with no heart and soul for the game and now they're all politicians to boot I take the seventies eighties and nineties over now a days hockey totally sucks💩💩💩
I was at that game. It was a night to remember as a very attractive girl took me to the game. Didn't know it at the time but it was a preview of the Stanley Cup Finals that year.
Joe Loos huh let Messier settle it. Are you serious? Mess couldn’t fight for shit. Look up his fights. You won’t find many and zero with true fighters. Pussy grabs onto the weakest player during big scrums. That C on his sweater stands for Coward when it came time to rumble. No joke.
You should see his side swing, Croager, and inverse toad! It's double dutch to die for! PS i hope you appreciate the effort and research that went into this comment.
Crosschecks and slashes are dirty, but a two-handed baseball swing is far more dangerous, and has no place in the game, acceptable under zero circumstances. Drop 'em and invite him to center ice. Chances are a linemate will intervene if you're a Lady Byng type.
I can't imagine what it was like to be an NHL ref or linesman in the 80's and 90's. Just insane that 3 guys were responsible for controlling 10 professional face punchers.
Alexander Gustafsson Win it through your system not through the Oilers and Hawks system. 1994 cup is a cheap win. Rags dumped 95% of their team from 92 to 94 to get 8 Oilers + 6 Hawks to win it. So that!
@@qdog568 Hunter had no issue ever handling Kocur. Joey KO’d guys like Eagles and KO’d deaf Kyte. His over glorified knockdowns were as credible as Coxes knockdown over him. And if Kocur was so fucking tough, why Sergio?
80's and 90's hockey on the big C- Band Satellite Dish, usually on free wild feed channels 😂 The absolute best Hockey in my life. Afterwards some good drop in hockey at the rink, or even some in-line out in the street.
I doubt it. Look a keenan's eyes, there's a crazy man behind them. As the big bear Quinn went to grab him the little weasel keenan would drop down, scoot around and behind quinn, sink his teeth into Quinn's achilles tendon, and dart back out of the way. Down the one legged Quinn would go with the drooling keenan circling this way and that, pausing only to nonchalantly look away, nice day today don't you think, before striking lightning quick at the other ankle. And once both legs of the mighty Quinn are irreparably damaged, it's only a matter of time before the sneaky keenan goes for the jugular. Yup, my money would be on keenan.
Oh ya the Rangers with that line up were a bunch of angels. I remember this game and the Rangers early in the game ran a couple of Canucks so Pat Quinn replied with the same tactics and beat the Rangers at their own game. Lol the announcers saying there was no need for this to happen.
Give me a break. Shawn Antoski was a career goon who had just fought Craig MacTavish of all people. What did the Canucks think was going to happen? Graves alone had more talent than every guy Vancouver had out there.
@@donziperk Bure wasn't on the ice during any of that. Antoski - a nothing player whose only NHL caliber skill was fighting - fought a 35-year old Craig MacTavish, *after* high-sticking him. Unsurprisingly, the Rangers took exception. So yeah, they sent out Kocur and Kypreos and Beukeboom. Because what were they supposed to do, send out their skill guys to get jumped because Vancouver had the second change? As it was, even *with* the second change, Momesso was such a tool, he didn't even just drop the gloves and fight Kocur. Kocur dropped his, Momesso swung his stick at him, (and missed LOL), and only dropped his gloves as the linesmen moved in so he wouldn't get worked
Those were the good old days!!! I hated both teams but, man that was fun to watch. Hunter, Odjick and Antoski in the same lineup!!! Kocur, Wells and Kypreos!! These days we have a bunch of social justice warrior millennial soy boys twirling around with zero body contact to speak of. Sad. Just glad we got to watch the game when it was played by real men....
Those social justice warriors was the players who got concussions and had their hockey career ended by it. Fucking idiot. No fans made hockey change. It was the players you dumbass.
@@tricky92x please. don't be dumb. so you are saying Eric Lindros is a Marxist and most of the fighting players wanted head shots out cause their careers got ended fast by headshots....... yea marxists wanted the game changed so much. that russians and canadian series was most brutal games ever . and Russians love violence. and that's where Marxism came from. Your reasons are so terrible.
Seeing as the clip was 'only of' the last minute or so, that was a marvelous assertation. Metaphilosophy major, are we? {With 38 total letters used, for 10 words...how did 'fucking' associate with anything? Was it an adjective, or adverb? Makes a difference}
I don’t understand why Hunter or Odjick didn’t just clock Messier when he was on the ice at the end since he was such a tough guy flapping his gums on the bench
@@BIGDROC99 Thorne is another favorite of mine! The man was pure talent able to call almost any sport. He was calling the Devils games on sports channel for awhile. He left and Emrick took over. I was spoiled by both.
Watch the clip again, with no sound, no announcer bias. Its clear now as it was then, the Rangers were thugs. Keenan is a joke. Quinn was having none of it and the Canucks surely would not sit back and allow it. Anyone who watched hockey back then knows what a cheap player Messier was. He was as cheap as he was good. If there was a HoF for cheap players, Messier would be 1st player in both HoFs.
Flip this scenario and the Rangers announcers would be talking about how the "Rangers have to send a message" and "I don't blame the Rangers here". Hypocrite announcers drive me nuts.
Messier tough?!?!?! He couldn’t fight for shit! What are you smoking dude? Look up Messier fights and see for yourself. He was known for his cheap elbowing to the head shots and grabbing onto the smallest player on the other team during scrums. You gotta be high if you believe Messier was a tough guy.
He jumps over his stick swing?! That was hilarious.
Mr. Pants I had to rewatch that because it looked like it went through him haha
Looked like something out of Bugs Bunny!
Mr. Pants all those jumping drills we did in minor hockey now make sense
He did not want any part of Kocur's right hand
@@BBBYpsi Talk about balance!-Right hook and was good on his feet,OUCH
Good ol days of ccm tacks...takes me back
Canadian Cycle and Motor Co. George Tackaberry bookmaker.
Still have mine. Don't dare use them anymore. Lol. I tried, but they're nothing like today's skate.
@@kuan720 they will look great hanging on the door to the garage.
Messier spits non stop
My favorite pair of skates.
What a great stick jump by Kocur!
I saw this game live, many of the fans had left and we came down to the seats close up and I remember this with Momesso and also a bunch of fights.
The 90s was the best for hockey, skill and toughness.
Absolutely
Lots of scrubs and dirty hits but some great hockey
No q
Hell yeah it was! I played in the 90's cause of the late 80's and Early 90's players and fighter goons like Bob Probert hell all the wings for that matter way better games! 🇺🇲🇨🇦🥁😉👍🥂🍾🍻😢
@@koensworski7499 what are you taking about ? No , todays game doesn’t hold a candle to the game back then and the amount of Hall of Famers ( found in abundance and in the apex of their careers through so many of the NHL teams . Can you count how many were present in just these two teams alone in the video ? ) . Then compare that to today where you’re lucky if there is maybe one or two hall of famers present in any given team . Who STILL in comparison to the HOF players of the 80s , 90s and early 2000s HOF STILL pale in comparison to the legends - found in abundance - who played back then . Their numbers and the battles those guys fought on the ice with the scars to boot prove it.
Todays game is a generic collective bargaining agreement league with too much revenue sharing creating a league with waaaay too much parity giving you a watered down and bloated mundane generic product . A “ pussified “ product at that with a culture of little boys who care more about their hair then they do about any hard nosed playing and fighting to administer the “ former “ laws in the ice. This was made readily convenient to such pussy players of today with the amount of rule changes to accommodate the Nancy boy players of today who would never lasted 3 min the NHL of the 70s to early 2000s .
Shit up kid you don’t know shit and I am not even in my mid 40s yet.
How strong is the linesman Sharrers? He kept Hunter under control like he was 170 pounds.
My old buddy Jay Sharres! Handled Hunter like a boss. What a body he had. Remember once at an after softball tourney pool party the ladies couldn't keep their eyes off of him. Even the two open lesbian players! Did about 50 pullups under the diving board, only time in my life i ever wished i was gay.
Easily the strongest linesman ever 💪🤴
Kevin Gunnery i dunno, John D'Amico was one tough mofo. Not big like Jay physically but larger in attitude! Wasn't afraid to toss a player on his keister with as much force he deemed enjoyable. Although the best linesman moment i've seen is Ron Asselstine's! Here's a link to that one! www.reddit.com/r/hockey/comments/2pnqmb/bruins_fan_jumps_the_glass_jogs_towards_referee/
@@stupidas9466 😂😂😂
Momesso was one of the dirtiest SOBs I've ever seen, especially in the 1994 Stanley Cup finals. But he was only one part of a really dirty team which was a reflection of their Neanderthal of a coach. Pat Quinn was a disgrace--PERIOD.
There was a lotta love on the ice. That's why they were hugging so much.
when these two teams met in the finals a couple months later it was epic
God I wish I could relive that.
@@anthonyi784 Thankfully I was only an infant. Didn't get to feel the disappointment first hand.
'94, the lead up to one of the best cup series ever..
The New York Oilers, you mean?
Lol, yup
Right after the St Louis Oilers
Wasn’t this the year that the whole city of Vancouver rioted because they lost? Lmfao
@@tehsnipatres208not lmao
5:20 the usher manhandles a couple girls in the crowd!
Lmfao
And then falls down. Karma.
@@joshs4594 usher was doing his job, they were reaching over the glass rubbing Hunter's head
Damn, this was two months before they met up in the finals that year!
The rivalry was heating up!
Ugh! 94! As a Devils fan I was crushed. Messier "we will win tonight"... smh.. stephane Matteau wrap around... can't stand the Rangers!
@@kat6789 Tough shit. We don't like you either.
@@11DNA11 Lol..next season Devils won half a cup hahaha
@@kat6789 This Isles fan can feel your pain. Swept in three in the then-best of five. I think the Isles only scored two goals in three games.
@@zzzombie888 than they won 2000 and 2003! Lol 3 cups.. 😂😂😁
Rangers fighters jump a bunch of non-fighters for Vancouver. Next shift, Hunter goes after Graves. John Davidson " I dont understand what Vancouver is doing here". Really, John
Davidson is an idiot.
That Canucks team in 93/94 was a fun one to watch. Tough and high powered offense it was hard to be more entertaining than them. Imagine a lineup facing Gino Odjick, Shawn Antoski, Tim Hunter, Sergio Momesso...even their defensemen were tough with Murzyn, Dirk and Diduck. And then when an opposition player thought they were going after some low-hanging fruit and pick on Pavel Bure they'd find out real quick and the hard way that he was not someone to be messed with either.
Ни одного элитного бойца(уровня Проберта, Твиста, МакСорли, Ларака,) в Ванкувере не было.
I agree completely. That was a great team - definitely outclassed the Rangers - no surprise there, though.
The guy in burgundy at 4:30 is so over it 😂😂
That ref on Hunter is a beast lol
So interesting to see a precursor to the SCF later that year which was one of the best championship showdowns in the history of sports
Back when hockey was more rough of a game and enforcers enforced that game.
The fighters were awesome. But some idiots swinging sticks.
That's not cool.
Now we get Daycare On Ice
Back when hockey games broke out at fights.
yea because swinging a stick like that is great for the game.
Yeah and today we have only tackles to head and no way to stop those rat players. Just like in society with PC culture will destroy west culture.
Messier’s helmet covering his eyebrows was the best!
This is the hockey I miss the most.
I definitely would like to see more fights in modern hockey but I don't miss the scrums after every whistle.
@KoivuTheHab pow. right in the kisser
@KoivuTheHab I'm late to this party but am I right in assuming that "Pow!! Right in the kisser" was a fella that deleted his own comments?
If I'm wrong, and you have a nervous tick that makes you say "Pow!! Right in the Kisser", well, that would be pretty fantastic too!
@KoivuTheHab haha good work sir or ma'am!
"This looks like it may get very ugly out here". Oh how I miss those days.
@@herbjergens6350 LOL Nikita Zadorov, Nazem Kadri and Gabe Landeskog would match up just fine in a fight but also be able to skate circles around them. Hockey has changed for the better
@@herbjergens6350 lol no comment 🤣
@@herbjergens6350 Fine, you want a response? You're the one that's delusional for thinking that players were "bigger and stronger" back then. They're actually stronger, faster and smarter these days.
Also, I'm not the only one who thinks hockey has changed for the better. Players aren't getting hurt as often, elongating careers, and the focus is more on skill and finesse rather than just pure strength and size. If you're into the needless fighting and bench clearing brawls, than you're the same as the "goons" back then. A dying breed, and most people are happy to see it leave the game
@Herb Jergens That is exactly why I chose to reply with no comment at first. There was no need to converse with you because you wouldn't have anything sensible to say
@@saiyansatan I think is the one that's delusional the good old days was excllent hockey to watch
Nowadays it's water down bullshit with too many teams and over paid players with no heart and soul for the game and now they're all politicians to boot
I take the seventies eighties and nineties over now a days hockey totally sucks💩💩💩
5:18 fan lovingly rubbing Hunter's head
1:38 Graves is 3rd man in on a fight no penalty, next face-off 4:25 Graves is still on the ice now in another fight...
@Scotland1908 oh bs, Vancouver was out matched that entire series. They knew the only way to compete was trying to get physical, almost worked too
I love the head rub at 5:20 😝
Glad to see these oldie clips, thanks buddy
Life long Wings fan. We’ve had a lot of talent over the years, Kocur and Martin Lapointe will always be two of my favorite players. Thanks guys!
Brandon Keyes Loved both
Joey is a wonderful person in general,met him,not realizing how BIG he is, and he told me a nasty funny joke as we stood in line at the hardwood store
You forgot my man Probert he was a beast
Lapointe was a bum. Fake tough guy too.
@@IntoTheWildFlyFishing take about 10% off there, bud
Man it got Messier than I thought.
Hunter wanted to put the Rangers In their Graves
That joke wasn't Kocur.
Better than Ronning away from a fight.
@@matthewsmith5374 last time I did that, I stubbed Matteau.
@@CoachTabe only a Morin would do that.
John Davidson watching a hockey game for the first time: “they’re fighting. I don’t understand it. why are they doing that?”
if you think thats what he said , your clueless
For a guy that played in the 70s, he really is either truly clueless or he’s trolling.
Still cool that Scotty bowman brought in Joey kocur after Xmas from his beer league to play 4th line enforcer status on DETRoIT in 1997
when hockey was hockey. in kocur they had the nr1 enforcer.
Lol @ number 1 enforcer. Kocur was a bitch.
@@AgentFour2Zero proberts bitch
Thats so far from hockey, its kinda laughable how ridiculous these guys were. Bunch of jabronis who wouldn't stand 10 sec in a real UFC fight.
I was at that game. It was a night to remember as a very attractive girl took me to the game. Didn't know it at the time but it was a preview of the Stanley Cup Finals that year.
Those were the days.
Totally forgot how great hockey was in the day
Rudy Poeschek got into it with Adam Graves once. He said Graves was one of the hardest punches he ever felt.
But Average Adam Graves couldn’t fight and got beat up a lot. Very much like Messier.
ghytgb What are you talking about? By who?
Wow really? Interesting
Im curious where I could find that article or clip
@@ghytgbmessier just puts you to sleep with his blind elbows,😊no need to fight.
Весёлые были времена. Я по ним скучаю.
Я тоже скучаю по ним 👍
Die hard Isles fan here. Born and raised to hate the Rangers but I have to admit I was on their side during this.
Seen Kocur smoke many self proclaimed tough guys.
Three things held him back. 1. He had no stamina. 2. He only had a right. 3. He actually punched too hard. Messed up his hand pretty good.
@@rulinghabs No stamina? Lmao!
Nothing held him back.
Once Hunter turned toward Messier I would have let him go.
I agree. Let Messier settle it.
Joe Loos huh let Messier settle it. Are you serious? Mess couldn’t fight for shit. Look up his fights. You won’t find many and zero with true fighters. Pussy grabs onto the weakest player during big scrums. That C on his sweater stands for Coward when it came time to rumble. No joke.
ghytgb GFY, go take on those he fought. Coward.
ghytgb Mess fought McSorley twice, real pussy right
You mean the same messier that got owned by McSorley both time’s he fought him? Messier is only scary when he is cheap shorting people with his elbows
As a Canuck fan that lived thru that series its hard to watch this all over again. The riots it ensued were not the finest moment...
Reminds me of when the Red Wings and avalanche nearly had a brawl on the bench and the coaches were yelling at each other. Old time hockey!!!
As much as I love today's speed and skill I miss this stuff.
Most of us dont though. Their fighting techniques are laughable and they wouldn't stand more than 10 sec in a real octagon.
That jump dodge was unbelievable
You should see his side swing, Croager, and inverse toad! It's double dutch to die for! PS i hope you appreciate the effort and research that went into this comment.
@@stupidas9466 Thank youuu Stu P du be Stu!
Aghhh the good ole days..What a game
Everyone missed Kocur's slash after the faceoff.
Crosschecks and slashes are dirty, but a two-handed baseball swing is far more dangerous, and has no place in the game, acceptable under zero circumstances. Drop 'em and invite him to center ice. Chances are a linemate will intervene if you're a Lady Byng type.
@@raypowers8083 Momesso vs Kocur? A mis-match only made close to even with a stick.
I can't imagine what it was like to be an NHL ref or linesman in the 80's and 90's. Just insane that 3 guys were responsible for controlling 10 professional face punchers.
Should of seen the 70's 80's. 🤕🤕
I’m so ecstatic that JD is back with the Rangers. Long time coming.
PoS homer.
This aged well....
The good old days of Ranger hockey!!!
Was there such a thing
@@paullagasse5504 yeah it was...
The NY Oilers
@@BRuane-pw6xq yes, I understand that there where a lot of ex Oilers on that team. But so what? What is really wrong in that?
Alexander Gustafsson Win it through your system not through the Oilers and Hawks system. 1994 cup is a cheap win. Rags dumped 95% of their team from 92 to 94 to get 8 Oilers + 6 Hawks to win it. So that!
Odjick,Hunter,Antoski and Diduck.wow.Canucks were loaded.
bigbadbruins1 AND they went to the finals!
And not one of them dared to tangle with Kocur.
Momesso also
@@qdog568 Wooooo.
@@qdog568 Hunter had no issue ever handling Kocur. Joey KO’d guys like Eagles and KO’d deaf Kyte. His over glorified knockdowns were as credible as Coxes knockdown over him.
And if Kocur was so fucking tough, why Sergio?
This was an early-season skirmish between two teams that would later meet in perhaps the most epic Stanley Cup Final ever, in 1994. :-)
80's and 90's hockey on the big C- Band Satellite Dish, usually on free wild feed channels 😂
The absolute best Hockey in my life.
Afterwards some good drop in hockey at the rink, or even some in-line out in the street.
"probably got a concussion after taking an elbow from a 235 pounder who's never been on the power-play probably in his career"....LMFAO!!
haha
The game has changed so so much..
And thank god it did !
I love Keenan in this. Just check some of the stuff his teams in Vancouver did when he coached them. Such a hypocrite i.e. buffalo vs Vancouver fights
drew130 What about the stuff with Philadelphia and Chicago before NY.
Sometimes just swinging like that at the guy is the best route. You could see how shocked and scared Kocur was after he luckily escaped that swing
dude....I don't think Kocur was afraid of anybody on earth
@@RobRochon look at how scared he was after his stick broke from the crosscheck and was a sitting duck
Kocur and fear don't go together.
Kocur wasn't scared. Momesso was. That's why he swung the stick. Kocur dropped the gloves and Serge got scared.
@@dallasnisbet9235Kocur broke his stick over Momesso’s back with a crosscheck. Momesso responded by trying to break Kocur’s ankle with the golf swing.
Good ol hockey
Miss this era so much.
swing at 4:10
Now you're lucky to have one guy who can throw ...Kocur Beukeboom Kypreos and then you've got Momesso Odjick Antoski Hunter on other side lol
That could have been a Golden Gloves card match up 😅
JiM Robsons commentary would be totally different. Pft, Rangers announcers are ALMOST as bad as Bostons.
Bullshit
@@jpwjr1199 So Rangers announcers ARE as bad as Boston's? I can live with that.
@@Roof_Pizza huh huh huh Beavis
@@jpwjr1199 don't bring much to the table do you?
@@Roof_Pizza huh huh huh Beavis
The days of tough hockey
All set up by the coach that takes Odjick and Hunter off the ice...unless Quinn was saving them for a potential follow up.
I miss these days
We dont
Davidson says "I don't understand it" roughly 14 times. Apparently he doesn't understand it.
Pat and Mike were talking about the next few years when messier would be in Vancouver.
Pat would have dropped Keenan in 2 seconds
@@dougpatterson4221 i duno man ..Keenan looks feisty! Lol ...but I gotta go with the big Irish man!
milbury commenting that he doesn't understand hockey violence ? that's a classic !
That's not Mike milbury commentating
Quinn could destroy Keenan in less than 10 seconds.
Too bad he didn't.
I doubt it. Look a keenan's eyes, there's a crazy man behind them. As the big bear Quinn went to grab him the little weasel keenan would drop down, scoot around and behind quinn, sink his teeth into Quinn's achilles tendon, and dart back out of the way. Down the one legged Quinn would go with the drooling keenan circling this way and that, pausing only to nonchalantly look away, nice day today don't you think, before striking lightning quick at the other ankle. And once both legs of the mighty Quinn are irreparably damaged, it's only a matter of time before the sneaky keenan goes for the jugular. Yup, my money would be on keenan.
Stu Pidas Quinn is a douche bag.
Except he'd have to go through Messier.
With his buttface only...
Rangers get their revenge about 3 months later when they beat Canucks in the Stanley Cup finals.
I miss old time hockey.
Oh ya the Rangers with that line up were a bunch of angels. I remember this game and the Rangers early in the game ran a couple of Canucks so Pat Quinn replied with the same tactics and beat the Rangers at their own game. Lol the announcers saying there was no need for this to happen.
1994
Give me a break.
Shawn Antoski was a career goon who had just fought Craig MacTavish of all people. What did the Canucks think was going to happen?
Graves alone had more talent than every guy Vancouver had out there.
@@dirtybirdambrose Really, more than Pavel Bure. Lol smoke another one.
@@donziperk Bure wasn't on the ice during any of that.
Antoski - a nothing player whose only NHL caliber skill was fighting - fought a 35-year old Craig MacTavish, *after* high-sticking him. Unsurprisingly, the Rangers took exception.
So yeah, they sent out Kocur and Kypreos and Beukeboom. Because what were they supposed to do, send out their skill guys to get jumped because Vancouver had the second change?
As it was, even *with* the second change, Momesso was such a tool, he didn't even just drop the gloves and fight Kocur. Kocur dropped his, Momesso swung his stick at him, (and missed LOL), and only dropped his gloves as the linesmen moved in so he wouldn't get worked
@@dirtybirdambrose Read my original comment, Rangers started Canucks finished it. What did the Rangers expect was going to happen.
LEGENDARY jump!
I saw it. It was my first Stanley Cup final. I supported Canucks. Bure was very good.
Those were the good old days!!! I hated both teams but, man that was fun to watch. Hunter, Odjick and Antoski in the same lineup!!! Kocur, Wells and Kypreos!!
These days we have a bunch of social justice warrior millennial soy boys twirling around with zero body contact to speak of. Sad. Just glad we got to watch the game when it was played by real men....
Those social justice warriors was the players who got concussions and had their hockey career ended by it. Fucking idiot. No fans made hockey change. It was the players you dumbass.
@@TheBlazersfan22 Actually, it was the Marxists up in Canada who pushed for change, and now the game sucks. It's like watching boring Olympic hockey.
@@tricky92x please. don't be dumb. so you are saying Eric Lindros is a Marxist and most of the fighting players wanted head shots out cause their careers got ended fast by headshots....... yea marxists wanted the game changed so much. that russians and canadian series was most brutal games ever . and Russians love violence. and that's where Marxism came from. Your reasons are so terrible.
bringin back the good ol days with the nucks
Omg the last minute or so is fucking HILARIOUS
Seeing as the clip was 'only of' the last minute or so, that was a marvelous assertation. Metaphilosophy major, are we?
{With 38 total letters used, for 10 words...how did 'fucking' associate with anything? Was it an adjective, or adverb? Makes a difference}
Kocur must have watched a lot of Three Musketeer flicks. That was quite a swashbuckling move by him. LOL
Lol, Momesso only drops his gloves after the linesman step in. Kocur would have murdered him.
That stick jump was dope. The linesman saved momessos life after he missed kocer
Yup!
@@joshuabrunk6672 as I have stated before, Momesso is still sending the zeb, chocolates, from the disaster that Jackhammer could do
Idk why anyone would want to fight Kocur!
Met him once and he was as nice personally off of the ice as he was mean on the ice.
You could tell Momesso didnt. Dont say I blame him either
Insomniac cements fists. Really big hands.
Because they think they have too many teeth.
There are players that would, but its a REAL small list. Probert? Rob Ray? Tony Twist cracked a dudes helmet with a punch once...
I don’t understand why Hunter or Odjick didn’t just clock Messier when he was on the ice at the end since he was such a tough guy flapping his gums on the bench
The toughest person on Vancouver’s bench was Pat Quinn. Everyone else was a Mary Sue.
Not sure which made me laugh more, the actual post itself or Fox Mulder posting it.
I forgot how fired up this stuff got me , its been too long!
Gotta love old school Vancouver hockey.🍻🍻🍻
Back when hockey was good and played by MEN
Up until the dead puck era
Ok boomer
Hell yeeeaaahhh!!!!!
What a memory 👍👍👍
Love the New York Rangers 🇺🇲✝️❤️🏒
Was this the 1994 finals????
"A man has a right to defend himself."
"What are you running here? A dance floor."
- Reggie Dunlop
Rangers broadcasters aren't being bias at all 😂
Jonathan Mancini They’ll never come close to Bruins commentators
@@BIGDROC99 Jack Edwards is the biggest loser, homer, broadcaster in the history of the NHL!!
Mike Emrick is the best, IMO.
Kat Nah. Gary Thorne was
@@BIGDROC99 Thorne is another favorite of mine! The man was pure talent able to call almost any sport. He was calling the Devils games on sports channel for awhile. He left and Emrick took over. I was spoiled by both.
Nobody says anything about Kocur swinging his stick first right off the draw to start it up?
Watch the clip again, with no sound, no announcer bias. Its clear now as it was then, the Rangers were thugs. Keenan is a joke. Quinn was having none of it and the Canucks surely would not sit back and allow it. Anyone who watched hockey back then knows what a cheap player Messier was. He was as cheap as he was good. If there was a HoF for cheap players, Messier would be 1st player in both HoFs.
Kocur looking ethereal on skates.
I’m confused what’s the backstory on this?? Where’s there some kind of “code” violation or something??
Matt Pizzano One of the Rangers took a run at Ronning early in the first period and it set the tone for the whole game.
Hunter is one strong man? That friggin linesman must be pretty powerful himself. Containing an enraged guy like that. Never lost his hold on things.
Pat Quinn was an absolute beauty. Always had his players' backs, and he didn't take shit from anyone.
Mark Messier didn't found a bigger helmet?
Is that Eddie olczyk in canucks?
No, Olczyk was a Ranger during this time (1993-95).
But I love ole fashioned brawls
Flip this scenario and the Rangers announcers would be talking about how the "Rangers have to send a message" and "I don't blame the Rangers here". Hypocrite announcers drive me nuts.
I wouldn't screw with the Ranger's, Messier, Kocur two tough SOB'S
Messier tough?!?!?! He couldn’t fight for shit! What are you smoking dude? Look up Messier fights and see for yourself. He was known for his cheap elbowing to the head shots and grabbing onto the smallest player on the other team during scrums. You gotta be high if you believe Messier was a tough guy.
@@ghytgb Yeah, like the time Mess nearly fainted when confronted by BIG Larry Robinson. 8D
Adam Graves got in there, too. Adam was my favorite as a kid.
@@benjamin29471 mine too, score a goal, get an assist and knock out anyone who gets near Messier
How the hell did Sergio Momesso become an NHL player?
well maybe look at his junior stats. or if you are a millennial ask someone or the government to do it for you.
Ive met coach iron Mike and he’s someone you want to be on point with in his presence he’s a no joke kind of guy ...
It's the only defense against Joey.🤣👊