During our last podcast we asked you to contribute entries heralding your favorite hockey thug of all time. Response has been great, although there is still room for more entries. We’ll be posting the best and holding a vote so that our readers can eventually pick the winner. Here is the second – Todd St. Louis’ take on Marty McSorley:
Back in the 94-95 hockey season I was playing with the Belleville Bulls. That year was the first NHL lockout and a few former Bulls came and skated with us to keep in shape. One of those guys also gets my vote for best goon of all time – Marty McSorley.
My time skating with Marty was a very educational period in my hockey career. Not only did these guys practice with us, but they gave us advice off the ice as well. Marty could quickly tell my role on the team, and bestowed more than a few hockey fight tips to my waiting ears. The one I remember the best is when Marty told me “Every time you throw a punch, visualize your fist coming through the back of that person’s skull.” So every time over the years when i dropped the gloves, Marty’s little school of fighting would echo in my head. So I suppose I owe him a vote of thanks for all the punches i landed over the years!
Also check out Bobsluggo’s tough-to-beat entry for Dennis Bonvie and then submit your own!
Great work from “Screwy” St. Louis.
That little tip was something I learned in boxing,kempo and perfected it in the Corps. Although I never needed in hockey, As you mentioned it is an excellent bug to have in your ear.
I have a great McSorley story for you guys. If I get time, I will post it tonight.
Quick update. No McSorley story tonight. I can’t remeber some details and have to make a call about it. Check in tomorrow.
From John Buccigross’s ESPN column:
A five-minute penalty for quasi-sanctioned, permitted bareknuckle fighting is hardly a penalty here in the 21st century. In the NBA, Carmelo Anthony threw a weak fadeaway punch/slap that was like a balled-up sock to the face of the Knicks’ Mardy Collins and Anthony got 15 games! Baseball players are automatically suspended for their bareknuckle fighting.
Look / sound familiar??
http://goonblog.com/2007/02/15/what-role-does-fighting-have-in-the-new-nhl/
Did this guy go to the Ron Borgess school of copying…I mean writing?
looks / sounds like it.
Killer – maybe he reads the googblog and steals ideas. After all you are on the goon squad!!!
Good Brawl here. Not sure what league this was from but we might wanna track these future goons progress in Thugary.
http://www.break.com/index/pee_wee_hockey_brawl.html
Too Fucken Funny! I always wondered what I looked like at that age. I also noticed both teams have N.Y. jerseys, coincidence??????? probably not.
They are taught early to hate each other Red Thunder.
Good stuff Killer. Check out the guy stats I fought this season:
http://www.hockeydb.com/ihdb/stats/pdisplay.php3?pid%5B%5D=4903
How’d you do?
Oh Shit, towel up guys, A woman just barged in!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I got the first shot in and then i could not open my jaw for 3 days. it was a masscre but I am 5’10” 165lbs.
Sorry Guys!!
165lbs??? That’s with your full equipment on.
Sounds like the time I “fought” Brad Norton.
I almost came to tears during that Probert tilt at the end. My God. That is old time hockey.