It was. The Disneyfied version played today attracts more soccer moms to the stands than hardcore fans. The main reason I haven't watched in well over a decade.
If you love hockey (and fighting), there's a Canadian show on Crave (in Canada, it's on Hulu in the US) called Shoresy and it's basically about a local hockey team made up of enforcers (with some skill players too). There's a number of former NHL, WHL etc. players so the technical details and humour are on point. It's got great acting, enjoyable fights (and games), banter and a killer soundtrack.
The Russian team the US beat in 1980 was the actual National team. What was controversial about that game was the Russian coach pulling Vladislav Tretiak who arguably the best goaltender in the world, at the start of the second period.
Small detail David Clarke is really Bobby Clarke and Bernie Perreault is actually Bernie Parent pronounced Parawnt Bobby Clarke was captain and Bernie Parent great goalie
Just some corrections. This was part of the 1976 Super Series which saw two Russian club teams (CSKA Red Army and Soviet Wings) each play four NHL.teams. CSKA beat the Rangers and the Bruins, tied Montreal and lost to Philadelphia. Soviet Wings beat Pittsburgh, Chicago and the Islanders and got curb stomped by Buffalo.
I'm pretty sure this was the same game that when the Soviet Captain got checked one time, his jersey came up and you could see a Makarov stuck in his waistband
Fun fact, this is basically how I made my Blood Bowl team in the chaos edition of the computer game. Norscan team, i'd take touchdowns if I could but my priority was absolutely annihilating the team until they were all in the injury box, which actually got me a couple outright wins due to there being NOBODY LEFT on the opposing team.
I haven't played much blood bowl but I did play a lot of deaththrow (a now sadly forgotten early xbox gem which was also its biggest downfall as it came out before xbox live was a thing) and there was one team who was the speedster team who could literally run rings around most of the other teams in the game but they could take a punch as well as the average bird so basically whenever I went up against them I ordered my team to go full aggressive and just beat them into submission.
@ I mean, there are some teams that really, *REALLY* aren't suited for it like the halfling teams...which, now that I think about it, should have had ogres as their big dudes rather than treemen for lore reasons...why did they have tree dudes with the halflings?
Turned hocky to a no holds barred MMA fighting league for a time didn't they? I would like to see a movie about these guys. I actually would like to see a movie about a lot of what the chubby electron man talks about but we all know Hollywood won't touch it. Also fun recommendation Brandon Herrera bulletproof tested a cybertruck door.
To be fair, and I get his shtick here is to have a good stinger they didn't change things to penalize the flyer's specifically, the flyers and their methods were just the logical conclusion of an existing trend that got out of hand. The older rules were in place to keep a lid on fighting but teams, especially the flyers figured out that for certain returns it made sense to simply ignore the rules because the penalties weren't strong enough to enforce them. There's no world in which beating the fuck out of the opposition so they can't play the game makes for a good sport, and if the rules let you literally pick fights so you can knock someone's fucking teeth out and put them in the hospital so they can't actually play you and lose by default the governing body is going to notice and do something about it. This is not the modern concept of an enforcer, this is throw hands until "oops I guess you can't play cause you're going to the hospital for a CT scan, I guess I win the game Tee Hee", actual hockey fans hated that shit and hated the flyers for being the best example of it.
no dude, we still didnt give two shits about swimming, we just got excited bc we won something....again....then we moved on with our lives very quickly
Do you think you could react to some of Media Zealot's videos? You probably would want to avoid the "Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist" about the Regents (the villains from _Battleship_ ) given your previous trauma over that film, but the ones on, say, Starship Troopers or _Battlefield Earth_ would probably, uhm, fun? I dunno.
I don't much like or understand sports, but I kinda understand hockey. It's a bar brawl on skates with a puck involved.
It's like the first scene of adult Happy Gilmore is more accurate about the sport than most hockey fans want to admit.
@@DavidRichardson153 Last team standing wins!
It was. The Disneyfied version played today attracts more soccer moms to the stands than hardcore fans. The main reason I haven't watched in well over a decade.
If you love hockey (and fighting), there's a Canadian show on Crave (in Canada, it's on Hulu in the US) called Shoresy and it's basically about a local hockey team made up of enforcers (with some skill players too). There's a number of former NHL, WHL etc. players so the technical details and humour are on point. It's got great acting, enjoyable fights (and games), banter and a killer soundtrack.
The Russian team the US beat in 1980 was the actual National team. What was controversial about that game was the Russian coach pulling Vladislav Tretiak who arguably the best goaltender in the world, at the start of the second period.
14:10 so the standard cliche brutal Soviet training regime but for hockey?
Small detail David Clarke is really Bobby Clarke and Bernie Perreault is actually Bernie Parent pronounced Parawnt Bobby Clarke was captain and Bernie Parent great goalie
Just some corrections. This was part of the 1976 Super Series which saw two Russian club teams (CSKA Red Army and Soviet Wings) each play four NHL.teams. CSKA beat the Rangers and the Bruins, tied Montreal and lost to Philadelphia. Soviet Wings beat Pittsburgh, Chicago and the Islanders and got curb stomped by Buffalo.
the dudes got all the scary dog privilege 🤣
I'm pretty sure this was the same game that when the Soviet Captain got checked one time, his jersey came up and you could see a Makarov stuck in his waistband
Fun fact, this is basically how I made my Blood Bowl team in the chaos edition of the computer game. Norscan team, i'd take touchdowns if I could but my priority was absolutely annihilating the team until they were all in the injury box, which actually got me a couple outright wins due to there being NOBODY LEFT on the opposing team.
I haven't played much blood bowl but I did play a lot of deaththrow (a now sadly forgotten early xbox gem which was also its biggest downfall as it came out before xbox live was a thing) and there was one team who was the speedster team who could literally run rings around most of the other teams in the game but they could take a punch as well as the average bird so basically whenever I went up against them I ordered my team to go full aggressive and just beat them into submission.
You mean... that not how you're supposed to normally play?
@ I mean, there are some teams that really, *REALLY* aren't suited for it like the halfling teams...which, now that I think about it, should have had ogres as their big dudes rather than treemen for lore reasons...why did they have tree dudes with the halflings?
Turned hocky to a no holds barred MMA fighting league for a time didn't they? I would like to see a movie about these guys.
I actually would like to see a movie about a lot of what the chubby electron man talks about but we all know Hollywood won't touch it.
Also fun recommendation Brandon Herrera bulletproof tested a cybertruck door.
Or if Hollywood did touch it they would screw it up.
reminds me of the Hanson brothers in slap shot, a movie from the 70's
As a Penguins fan (Rival hockey team)
This is the best thing the Flyers ever did
Chat Music just dropped the new video based on the Snow White trailer comments.
You're welcome.😁
This is literally the Chiefs from Slapshot, but IRL
They need to bring back the Enforcers, too many players are getting hurt because FAFO is not getting enforced.
it's a shame the NHL changed the rules with regards to fighting thus putting an end to the role of the Enforcer.
It’s not all gone, but it’s much more tame
Chicago would have taken this team for their own. look at Rodman on the Bulls.
To be fair, and I get his shtick here is to have a good stinger they didn't change things to penalize the flyer's specifically, the flyers and their methods were just the logical conclusion of an existing trend that got out of hand. The older rules were in place to keep a lid on fighting but teams, especially the flyers figured out that for certain returns it made sense to simply ignore the rules because the penalties weren't strong enough to enforce them. There's no world in which beating the fuck out of the opposition so they can't play the game makes for a good sport, and if the rules let you literally pick fights so you can knock someone's fucking teeth out and put them in the hospital so they can't actually play you and lose by default the governing body is going to notice and do something about it. This is not the modern concept of an enforcer, this is throw hands until "oops I guess you can't play cause you're going to the hospital for a CT scan, I guess I win the game Tee Hee", actual hockey fans hated that shit and hated the flyers for being the best example of it.
Look up the punch up at piesany.
no dude, we still didnt give two shits about swimming, we just got excited bc we won something....again....then we moved on with our lives very quickly
And not one joke about the Cold War???? :)
Do you think you could react to some of Media Zealot's videos? You probably would want to avoid the "Advanced Sci-fi Civilisations Too Stupid To Really Exist" about the Regents (the villains from _Battleship_ ) given your previous trauma over that film, but the ones on, say, Starship Troopers or _Battlefield Earth_ would probably, uhm, fun? I dunno.
I love Fats story telling. But he butchered the Broad Street Bullies story here.
The New England Whalers beat them in 1976! I was rgere!