My dad cut the ice at the garden from 84-96. Gravy was an absolute beaut. No player was ever more down to earth and approachable than Adam. Gravy had this aura around him, he was soft spoken by choice, everyone in the room knew he could dust them half asleep. When he signed after the games, he signed for EVERYONE. He knew how special it was.
Also worth mentioning: Graves‘ 52 goals back in the 1993-94 regular season with the Rangers were the club’s all-time record that lasted quite some time - until Jaromir Jagr set a new franchise record with two more goals I think.
graves i absolutely love him i still wear his home and away jersey to big games at the garden. however his 52 was in an 84 game schedule yes the nhl played 84 game 93/94 and i believe 92/93
As an Islanders fan I hated him but always had a ton of respect for him. The guy was immovable in front of the the net. He bled Ranger blue. He's a great enemy, lol
@@race3338 Oh wow. I never thought about that. That's a very good comparison. I always saw Graves as Messier Jr. He was tough, skilled, heart and soul, always associate them as Rangers.
My memory of Graves was 5/5/92: With Pens captain Mario Lemieux handling the puck on the left point, Graves skated toward him and, with a two-handed chop, hit Lemieux's left hand above the glove, breaking his wrist. While Graves was suspended for three games, Lemieux was sidelined for the next five.
Graves is one of my all time favorite player. I see a lot of him in Kreider. He was the Rangers leading goal scorer but you didn't see players coming in to protect him. Instead you knew he would be the first one in to protect his teamates. I remember going to open practices and seeing him signing for everyone and taking pics for as long as it took. He would even call over other players. He was a players player as well as a fans player.
Gravy was the favorite of much of the NYR fanbase at the time. If you were lucky to catch him outside MSG he would stick around and sign autographs for every single fan. He was the leader in the post Messier years. It's a shame those NYR teams were bad towards the end of his career.
Have you done one of these for Mike Gartner? Also a great player and great guy. As a kid I attended many Hockey Ministries International Hockey camps in Maryland (US). Also called Christian Athlets hockey camp. Mike Gartner was always one of the pros that coached at these camps. This guy gave so much back to the game and it's fans. He sponcored so many kids so they could afford to attend these camps. I was one of them. I now am a coach at the HMI camp in Raleigh North Carolina with Jaccob Slavin. Raleigh was the first HMI camp in the south 13 years ago. The week of June 27-July 1 will be the 14th camp in Raleigh. Now HMI has camps all over the south. As well as the world. That would be a cool idea for a video. The history of Hockey Ministries International. HMI has chaplins in every NHL, all minor league teams as well as JR and college teams. They hold an all star breakfast at every city it goes to. Many current and former pro players attend these camps and events.
My all-time favorite player. he could shoot, was aggressive, took a beating in front of the net. would do it all. if a teammate needed protection he was there. also the amount of charity work he's done is incredible. truly an outstanding person. I have 2 autographed sticks and a puck from him
Could not be happier to see this, huge rangers fan here, first jersey was Adam Graves #9 in the mid 90's - saw us win the cup at 1am in a mexican bar with my dad when i was 7...he's still my all time favorite (up there with Richter - as well as Hasek and Theo Fluery!)
I hated him when played for the Rangers, but he was a solid 2 way, gritty player for a long time. Most guys of his ilk are done after a decade, if that. You can’t play that kind of role and not be banged up. Just ask Cam Neely. 52 at the official end of the Live Puck Era is impressive and he had 2 more 30 goal seasons after that. I had hoped Jim Sandlak or Shawn Antoski would have had the same career trajectory, but it wasn’t to be. He was scary in the finals. I believe their top line was Graves-Messier-Anderson or maybe Larmer was on that line. Scary. I was shocked at how the old men were beating us.
Decent tough guy, turned out to be a goal scorer in NYR. Remember having a sticker album in 95 and the middle pages had the 50 goal scorers featured, it was Graves and Sheppard with all the established super stars. Other than that, I can't say I have a special admiration for him, nor any particular dislike.
Keep in mind ray sheppard was also a ranger for 1 year and played great. Was thier best finisher. Rangers decided to let him go for monetary issues. Management was a joke for rangers for years back then.
As Jimmy Carson was the main "piece" that came Edmonton's way in the Gretzky trade, and was then shipped out for the bundle including Graves that helped the Oilers win another cup, it's almost kind of like 99 indirectly had a hand in Edmonton winning that other cup.
Shout out to Steven Rice mentioned in this video. He was supposed to be a good player too but didn’t make it. I still remember the Upper Deck card with him, Doug Weight, and Tony Amonte in the surf at the beach with hockey sticks
I remember that too. In thier blue jerseys. I had 10 of those cards. Upper deck was coming into its own with great sets. I met Doug weight recently here in Long Island and he said was really upset when the rangers traded him at the time. I wished they hung on to him but eventually it was only kovalev that was left from that bunch.
Great video but one thing I would correct is that he really wasn’t a dirty player. The slash on Mario was straight to his gloves not any exposed area. Game was different back then with stick work and Late checks. It was a more physical league back then and most teams were 2-3 goons deep per game. Adam wasn’t a goon he killed penalty and power play guy. Great guy off the ice . Lines would stretch around NYC blocks when he signed autographs. Lucky to have him. Wore number 11 until mark messier arrived if I’m not mistaken
The actual suspension was 4. Graves missed the rest if the series. May have been 3 games he missed but the punishment was 4. Point is the video says there was no further discipline…which is incorrect
Ummmm .. I don’t have time to read through all the comments. But graves was suspended 4 games in 92 for the slash on Mario. If you are going to do this video the least you can do is be historically accurate. Also.. he was Messier’s protector.. in that era graves was never a chippy dirty player. You had way worse out on the ice.
I only clicked on this video to check on if you would mention his classless and deliberate axhandle slash that has been most often omitted by professional broadcasters. I'm sick of how much his career has been white-washed.
Because most people, aside from devout Penguins and Mario Lemieux fans, have forgiven and forgotten about it and the aforementioned fans should. I understand why they won’t because he is their lord and savior. At the same time it’s been too long and they won that series anyways.
My dad cut the ice at the garden from 84-96. Gravy was an absolute beaut. No player was ever more down to earth and approachable than Adam. Gravy had this aura around him, he was soft spoken by choice, everyone in the room knew he could dust them half asleep. When he signed after the games, he signed for EVERYONE. He knew how special it was.
Also worth mentioning: Graves‘ 52 goals back in the 1993-94 regular season with the Rangers were the club’s all-time record that lasted quite some time - until Jaromir Jagr set a new franchise record with two more goals I think.
Chris Kreider finally tied him this season!
graves i absolutely love him i still wear his home and away jersey to big games at the garden. however his 52 was in an 84 game schedule yes the nhl played 84 game 93/94 and i believe 92/93
Before this season:
06 Jagr 54
94 Graves 52
72 Hadfield 50
91 Gartner 49
Not many 50 goal scorers for the Rangers.
As an Islanders fan I hated him but always had a ton of respect for him. The guy was immovable in front of the the net. He bled Ranger blue. He's a great enemy, lol
Played a similar style you your own late number 9.
@@race3338 Oh wow. I never thought about that. That's a very good comparison. I always saw Graves as Messier Jr. He was tough, skilled, heart and soul, always associate them as Rangers.
I’m a new rangers fan because of my brother so it’s cool to see more rangers history videos
You mean East Coast Oilers?
Don’t go too far back with history videos . Keep everything post 1994 and you should be fine
Man I don't remember him playing for San Jose, have a vivid memory of him in Rangers though.
Great player. And one of the guys that prove that one shouldn't be too quick to say bust.
My memory of Graves was 5/5/92:
With Pens captain Mario Lemieux handling the puck on the left point, Graves skated toward him and, with a two-handed chop, hit Lemieux's left hand above the glove, breaking his wrist. While Graves was suspended for three games, Lemieux was sidelined for the next five.
Yes. We Penguins fans still have not forgotten or forgiven that slash on Mario's risk.
Never forget "the slash"! I think it was on the cover of SI at the time.
Legend has it , Crosby got his first concussion because of that slash on Mario.
Graves is one of my all time favorite player. I see a lot of him in Kreider. He was the Rangers leading goal scorer but you didn't see players coming in to protect him. Instead you knew he would be the first one in to protect his teamates. I remember going to open practices and seeing him signing for everyone and taking pics for as long as it took. He would even call over other players. He was a players player as well as a fans player.
If you put Graves in Krieders body he'd score 60 a year!
Krieder is soft compared to Graves !
Gravy was the favorite of much of the NYR fanbase at the time. If you were lucky to catch him outside MSG he would stick around and sign autographs for every single fan. He was the leader in the post Messier years. It's a shame those NYR teams were bad towards the end of his career.
Thank you for this.. Grew up in the 90s watching the Rangers adam graves was the man
Have you done one of these for Mike Gartner? Also a great player and great guy. As a kid I attended many Hockey Ministries International Hockey camps in Maryland (US). Also called Christian Athlets hockey camp. Mike Gartner was always one of the pros that coached at these camps. This guy gave so much back to the game and it's fans. He sponcored so many kids so they could afford to attend these camps. I was one of them. I now am a coach at the HMI camp in Raleigh North Carolina with Jaccob Slavin. Raleigh was the first HMI camp in the south 13 years ago. The week of June 27-July 1 will be the 14th camp in Raleigh. Now HMI has camps all over the south. As well as the world. That would be a cool idea for a video. The history of Hockey Ministries International. HMI has chaplins in every NHL, all minor league teams as well as JR and college teams. They hold an all star breakfast at every city it goes to. Many current and former pro players attend these camps and events.
I remember as part of the great NYR playoff run in spring 1997, he pulled a Matteau and won the 2nd Round series with a wraparound on Brodeur.
My all-time favorite player. he could shoot, was aggressive, took a beating in front of the net. would do it all. if a teammate needed protection he was there. also the amount of charity work he's done is incredible. truly an outstanding person. I have 2 autographed sticks and a puck from him
Great Guy
Off season videos are my favourite ones :D career vids like this, historical stuff etc
One of my favorites as a kid. Wore 9 because of him.
Kaapo Kakko
A video on Jimmy Carson would be nice :-)
The 7 former Oilers in 94 Cup
Graves
Messier
Tikkanen
Anderson
Lowe
Beukeboom
MacTavish
Could not be happier to see this, huge rangers fan here, first jersey was Adam Graves #9 in the mid 90's - saw us win the cup at 1am in a mexican bar with my dad when i was 7...he's still my all time favorite (up there with Richter - as well as Hasek and Theo Fluery!)
Good player who had an outlier yr in 93-94 was a big reason they won the cup.
Interesting career that started in Detroit and ended in San Jose.
I hated him when played for the Rangers, but he was a solid 2 way, gritty player for a long time. Most guys of his ilk are done after a decade, if that. You can’t play that kind of role and not be banged up. Just ask Cam Neely. 52 at the official end of the Live Puck Era is impressive and he had 2 more 30 goal seasons after that. I had hoped Jim Sandlak or Shawn Antoski would have had the same career trajectory, but it wasn’t to be. He was scary in the finals. I believe their top line was Graves-Messier-Anderson or maybe Larmer was on that line. Scary. I was shocked at how the old men were beating us.
Decent tough guy, turned out to be a goal scorer in NYR. Remember having a sticker album in 95 and the middle pages had the 50 goal scorers featured, it was Graves and Sheppard with all the established super stars. Other than that, I can't say I have a special admiration for him, nor any particular dislike.
Keep in mind ray sheppard was also a ranger for 1 year and played great. Was thier best finisher. Rangers decided to let him go for monetary issues. Management was a joke for rangers for years back then.
My favorite player growing up. It was a Grave situation for the Canucks in 94'.
Adam Graves 🔥🔥🔥
As Jimmy Carson was the main "piece" that came Edmonton's way in the Gretzky trade, and was then shipped out for the bundle including Graves that helped the Oilers win another cup, it's almost kind of like 99 indirectly had a hand in Edmonton winning that other cup.
Great video and a great NY ranger
I never knew Adam Graves used to play for the Red Wings early in his career
I didn't know he played for the oilers
@@tobiasfrost86 really u didn't know that
Still waiting for Andreychuk's career video.
So underrated. I think he scored over 200 power play goals
@@MrOctober44 +270
Shout out to Steven Rice mentioned in this video. He was supposed to be a good player too but didn’t make it. I still remember the Upper Deck card with him, Doug Weight, and Tony Amonte in the surf at the beach with hockey sticks
@@matthewdaley746 well, at least Bernie Nicholls has a really good career. He scored 70+ goals one year! Must’ve been nice to play with Gretzky.
I remember that too. In thier blue jerseys. I had 10 of those cards. Upper deck was coming into its own with great sets. I met Doug weight recently here in Long Island and he said was really upset when the rangers traded him at the time. I wished they hung on to him but eventually it was only kovalev that was left from that bunch.
"For Future Considerations, who gets traded a lot" lol
Remember , there is only one kind of danger, and that's grave danger.
Did a search on You Tube for the Career of KIRK MULLER , did not see anything by you. Could you please check?
Adam Graves is the Wayne Gretzky of human beings
Petr Klima one of THG's favorites lol
Like with many other former Oilers, wasn't Graves to NYR heavily influenced by Messier's desire?
Graves was traded before Messier.
You have a nice jersey collection Hockey Guy. I have one, #9 Graves. Thank you for the vid.
I still hate him for slashing Mario but oddly enough, I hate him less than Messy-err.
Shannon could you do a career of Mickey Redmond video??
Troy Mallette had 557 PIM in two seasons with NYR.
A decent fighter too..
Very hard working player
What about a career video for Joe Murphy? It's a sad story but I feel it would still be a good one.
WOW!
Great video but one thing I would correct is that he really wasn’t a dirty player. The slash on Mario was straight to his gloves not any exposed area. Game was different back then with stick work and Late checks. It was a more physical league back then and most teams were 2-3 goons deep per game. Adam wasn’t a goon he killed penalty and power play guy. Great guy off the ice . Lines would stretch around NYC blocks when he signed autographs. Lucky to have him. Wore number 11 until mark messier arrived if I’m not mistaken
Lets Go Rangers Hockey forever ✝️❤️🇺🇲🏒
Dadanov for Wreber, huh.
Graves was issued a 4 game suspension for the Lemieux incident.
Wasn't it only three games? Lemieux was out five.
The actual suspension was 4. Graves missed the rest if the series. May have been 3 games he missed but the punishment was 4. Point is the video says there was no further discipline…which is incorrect
Do the career of derian hatcher!!!!
Maybe Kakko is going to same kind of player? Rangers will never know, if they trade him.
Are you sure Lemieux fractured his wrist? I seem to remember him not missing any time.
Graves was in fact suspended 4 games for that slash. Everyone makes mistakes. Graves, THG, and god knows, me as well.
Torts 4 year deal in Philly
Sounds like a disaster waiting to happen.
Flithydephia..
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*finger guns* 👉👉
Oof. Just went on Hockey DB and busted out my calculator. He's a -25 lifetime +/-.
Ummmm .. I don’t have time to read through all the comments. But graves was suspended 4 games in 92 for the slash on Mario. If you are going to do this video the least you can do is be historically accurate.
Also.. he was Messier’s protector.. in that era graves was never a chippy dirty player. You had way worse out on the ice.
day 5 of asking for a Dale McCourt video
Denied!
@@MrOctober44 overruled
All I remember is hit dirty slash on Lemieux and breaking his wrist in the playoffs... screw him.
I only clicked on this video to check on if you would mention his classless and deliberate axhandle slash that has been most often omitted by professional broadcasters. I'm sick of how much his career has been white-washed.
Because most people, aside from devout Penguins and Mario Lemieux fans, have forgiven and forgotten about it and the aforementioned fans should. I understand why they won’t because he is their lord and savior. At the same time it’s been too long and they won that series anyways.