The best was when the Broad Street Bullies played the Red Army team.
The Soviets left the ice, because the Bullies were too physical. The Philly Crowd started chanting...”They’re Going Home!”
The Bullies weren’t “too physical.” They were playing like a bunch of dirty bastards in that game. LOL.
‘Too physical’ shouldn’t involve a premeditated, cynical tomahawk swing of a stick that broke the best player’s ankle.
You probably should be a boxing fan. Hockey is not about fighting. To the extent that the @$$hole broadcasters talk about "getting it on' they cheapen the game. The USSR team was all class. I was a big Ranger fan when they arrived on the scene. I wanted the Russians to be humiliated. But it was my team that was humiliated.
Your idea of a great hockey player is probably Dave Schultz. That brand of hockey is why my attendance at NHL games declined rapidly from 35 a year to nearly zero decades ago.
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