British Guy Reacts To NHL DIRTIEST HITS 

They didn't even have the worst on here. Todd Bertuzzi on Steve Moore is one of the dirtiest and most dangerous plays I've ever seen. Literally fractured his vertebrae and ended his career.

Getting hit against the boards hurts way less than the open ice hits, however, it's the ones where the guy is like 4 or 5 feet from the boards that can get dangerous

2:10 dont get confused, there were two notable players named Lemieux, Mario and Claude. Mario Lemieux is a Pittsburgh Penguins legend and NHL HoFer. Claude was the one in the video checking the guy from behind up against the boards.

“That could’ve broken his neck”. Spoiler alert, it did. He had a fractured vertebrae from it

That hit by Lemieux started a huge rivalry between Avalanche & Red Wings. There are some GREAT documentaries on that whole ordeal that you should check out

Just a note - the hit where Max Pacioretty was driven into the center divider (at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-MtA9LZUqI-Y.html) actually DID break Pacioretty's neck - his 4th cervical vertebra was fractured, to be specific. Pacioretty was out for the rest of the season, but came back the next year, and still plays to this day. Because of this hit, all the stanchions in all the arenas are rounded, and not straight any more, lessening the likelihood of a repeat instance. It was an incredibly dirty hit, though. While hockey has always been a "full contact sport" for it's century plus existence, I'm glad to see that they are continuing to remove the egregious, "intent to injure" type of hits from the game today. It used to be MUCH worse than it is today, and a lot of the most famous "clean checks" of the past would lead to a suspension today - mostly for blatant head shots. There is a long history of hockey players playing through and suffering from concussions because of things like this. Fortunately, between the NHLPA's pressure, and the actions of Gary Bettman (much as he gets a lot of hate for his decision making) the league is far more willing to change the rules to protect the players than it used to be in the past.

When you said….that could have broken his neck, …..it did, that was Max Pacioretty. He suffered a concussion and fractured vertebrae in his neck.

The hit at 4:36 caused Marcus Naslund to miss 3 games with a concussion. The retaliation from Todd Bertuzzi that came later landed Steve Moore in the hospital for 5 months with multiple fractured vertebrae and a severe concussion. He was never medically cleared to play again, and has stated in interviews that he still suffers headaches. That was the dirtiest play I've ever seen in hockey, and they left it out.

The Montreal police actually did consider charging Chara with a crime for the hit at 6:35. Absolutely brutal.

A hit is considered dirty if you hit them in the head, hit them without the puck, or 3+ seconds after they have gotten rid of the puck. Also if their back is facing you and they’re a couple feet from the boards and you still hit them from behind it’s dirty.

You should watch the « Good Friday Massacre » between Quebec and montreal

If you want a good idea of how much these guys sacrifice their bodies, check out the biggest shot blocks. These guys literally throw themselves in front of a frozen hunk of rubber going 100mph sometimes.

Definitely check out "Fight Night at the Joe" between Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche. Widely considered one of the worst bloodbaths in NHL history. Best to view the the longer version that describes what all led up to it

Claude Lemeiux's hit on Kris Draper (1:38 in the video) is one of the most consequential moments in NHL history. It sparked the most heated and intense american professional sports rivalry ever. Secret Base has a phenomenal video on the rivalry I would love to see you check out! The title is- How one violent hit snowballed into years of championship-grade hockey beef | Red Wings vs Avalanche

The Keith hit on Cooke is well deserved and I’m sad he got back up

The plus side of seeing the stretcher brought out onto the ice in a hockey game is that in most cases it is for cautionary purposes, especially neck and head contact. All precautions are truly appreciated by the league, the team, the coach, the players and the fans,

2:22 that essentially ended savards career tried to make a comeback but was never even remotely the same and it’s a shame because he was REALLY good

Mark Messier is 6'2 and about 200 lb , so some of his hits did hurt. He used to play in Edmonton Oilers. We call him " the moose" for a reason. 😅

Not all hockey injuries are from hits, idk if RU-vid would allow it but you could check out the worst injuries if you’d like to follow this path to its extent ig

That one on Draper #33 from the Red Wings. That started a years long feud between the Avalanche and the Red Wings. It was a hit from behind, late and it literally broke Draper's face. Lemiuex never apologized

If you haven't already, watch "The Brawl in Hockeytown." It will tell you the whole story about the Red Wings' beef with the Colorado Avalanche, bit especially Claude Lemiux. (I probably spelled that wrong) Any analysis of the Wings/Avs feud of the late '90s will give any red-blooded sports fan a good time.

Claude Lemieux, Ulf Samuelson, Raffi Torres, Tom Wilson, and Matt Cooke are on the all-time dirt squad.

You missed the hit by Darian Hatcher of the Dallas Stars on Jeremy Roenick of the Phoenix Coyotes. Broke his jaw. Retaliation hit for a dirty hit on Mike Modano earlier that season.

Newer fans sometimes don't realize that headshots used to be legal. The Cooke-Savard and Messier-Modano hits were within the bounds of the rules at the time.

Headshots are definitely a concern, especially considering that they wear elbow pads that have a hard plastic exterior. It makes them weapons. Ironically headshots are a more recent (late 80s to present) development (not that they didn’t occasionally happen). Back in the day players didn’t wear helmets so head shots were far less frequent (40s to early 70s when more and more players started to wear helmets). Craig McTavish was the last player to play and not wear a helmet (mid to late 80s as I recall). Knee on knee hits were often seen as the dirtiest hit, because a knee injury can effect your ability to skate and thus end your career in a blink of an eye.

I don’t know all the details but there was a game in the 70’s where a Minnesota North Stars player lost an eye during a game. My brother was at that game and said it took him a year or so before he could go to another game, it was that bad.

There were lots of dirty hits in the 60s and 70s particularly. That adreneline is running high in these tough guys.

Dude. For someone who hasn't watched much Hockey before, you seem to have a good natural understanding of what's going on. Impressed.

I am legitimately shocked the Steve Moore hit on Naslund was in here, but they didnt follow it up with 1 of the most notable hits of all time, the retribution Moore got the next game when Bertuzzi attacked him, and 5 players piled ontop of him, breaking his neck. It literally turned Bertuzzi from 1 of the top 20 players in the game at the time, into a villain across some parts of the league, and he was never the same again when he got back from his suspension.

Check out the brawl in hockeytown. I think you’d like that. Basically a game that was 100% fight. 2:04 this hit was the catalyst to that game.

Pavel Barber's illegal hockey plays videos are hilarious. A lot of the hits in this video reminded me of them.

Canadians absolutely love hockey! We live for this.

I got called up to double AA hockey team for a couple games when I was 13…..the last guy that got clocked in your video, was on that team!! I played with him…..Rob Murphy is his name. He is a huge person! He was more often on the giving end of those highlights reels. Cheers.

Getting right back up after you have been knocked down makes your fellow Canadians proud.

Richard Zednik who was hit in one of these clips also once had his jugular cut by a skate. I’ve seen that happen twice (the other time was Clint Malarchuk) and both guys are lucky to be alive.

I really need you to cover the response to the Lemuix on Draper hit, the game was 3-26-97, Darren McCarty got Claude back, it’s known as the “turtle game” bc Claude just covered and tried to get into his shoulder pads, and that game sparked arguably the greatest rivalry runs in the game. God damn I miss those Red Wings v Avalanche days. I subbed, so I’ll be able to see your react video on the McCarty answer game, it’s an all timer, even if I wasn’t a resident of HOCKEYTOWN.

Im just waiting for him to realize that on the first hit where the guy got hit into the divider in between the benches, the guy that delivered the hit is 6’9. (around 7’1 or 7’2 on skates)

I thought Pacioretti was dead when Chara took him into the boards. You forget how fast these guys are going, and Chara is a freaking beast of a human.

btw they're wearing protection, so an elbow to the head is also a carbon infused polymer elbow pad on top of the hit. Elbowing or kneeing are some of the dirtiest hits in the league. I say some because charging, sleuth footing, and nut hooks/slashes are worst by far.

THIS is why fighting is so important in hockey.

Hockey can be nasty... especially when players get cut with skates or vintage footage of pre-helmet era.

Your reaction to Paciorretty getting hit into that stanchion between the benches... that is why we now have curved glass on either side of the benches to help prevent that kind of injury. Pacioretty suffered a concussion and fractured vertebra.

Morning I’m pissing myself laughing at your reactions! Definitely got a great video of hits although older most have since retired. My god when the stretcher around 9:37 tipped over I died the look on your face- priceless.. Thanks for starting my day off with a laugh, have a good day!

This is a large part of the reason that fighting doesn’t get outlawed. The argument is that people would play a lot dirtier and take dangerous cheap shots if they didn’t either face the risk of getting beaten up for a cheap shot, or have the ability to settle a score in a relatively safe way.

Love your expressions. The tension radiating off you is as if your right there at the game. 🇨🇦

You need to watch the movie Slap Shot - hockey classic

You need to check out Scott Stevens biggest hits...trust me on that you will love it

Never been happy to see a hit to the head, with the singular exception of Matt Cooke being on the receiving end. Reaping the whirlwind.

2:10 There are two standout hockey players named 'Lemieux'... Mario Lemieux is a Pittsburgh Penguins legend, one of the best players of all time, in many respects second only to Gretzky, career cut a bit short because of leg and back trouble and other things... The other is Claude Lemieux, who's the best offensive upside enforcer in the game's history. 'Ferocious' is a good word to describe his play, but he also put up pretty great numbers for someone with his style of play. While he had a couple seasons around 80 points and mostly hovered around 50-60 in his prime, he was an outstanding playoff performer, won playoff MVP one year, made the playoffs in 15 straight seasons and won 4 Stanley Cups. His son, Brendan, is a depth player / lineup filler / pure grinder in the NHL right now, playing for the Flyers.

Welcome to the Brutality of the NHL. It can make mixed Martial Arts look pretty tame.

Canucks last game of the season was last night and at one point Josh Brown connected knee on knee with Nils Åman and Kyle Burroughs stepped up to fight Brown. Brown is listed at 6’5 and 220 lbs while Burroughs is 6’ and 180 and Burroughs managed to hold his own. If you’d like to see some crazy mismatched fights you should check out former Canuck Rick Rypien. He was a little guy who CONSTANTLY stuck up for his team mates and quite often came out on top!

lmao your reaction to Modano being dropped on the stretcher , it really does seem like something out of a slapstick comedy

Grew up playing hockey all my life, and also a huge soccer fan (Arsenal). I get so upset when I see a flop over light contact to draw a yellow/red, compared to what happens in the NHL (guy a couple nights ago got about 70 stitches on his face, came back to finish the game). So frustrating. Soccer is awesome except for that.

6:50 it did break his neck actually, that was in 2011. he made a full recovery and is still playing in the nhl today

7:02 lol “he could’ve broken his neck there”… he did. His neck broke

At 4:37 in this video you play a clip with Steve Moore hitting a Colorado player. It wasn’t a huge dirty hit. The next game the 2 teams would play Joe Sakic checked Steve Moore then drove his head into the ice. Steve Moore was paralyzed. Joe Sakic made me ashamed of the sport I love. Odd coincidence he also played in the punch up in Piestence.

There's two or three names that you'll see regularly coming back in this kind of video: Dale Hunter, Claude Lemieux, and Tie Domi...and from the 80's, there was of course Ulf "knee breaker" Samuelsson.

Only real injury I've had in hockey was a broken arm after a hit from behind. Fighting for the puck in the corner and someone hit me dead on the numbers and bent my arm at a weird angle against the boards. Didn't even know it was broken till tried and failed to get up using the arm twice. Would like to count the half-fake tooth I have but that was from the "can go fast but can't stop" stage of learning to ice skate.

The scariest hit are by far the ones that cause the player to lose consciousness. When they go down and don’t move my heart stops

This is one part of the game that I’m happy they have almost gotten rid of! Players are now monitored after taking a big hit to see if they show any signs of concussion! The head shots are now very rare in hockey…….thank god!

You should review the video explaining the long feud between Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche in the late 90's. The original hit and the resulting years of fights were brutal.

I figured I'd see Dale Hunter in this video. He is one of the guys that you want off the ice but you would rather have on your favorite team. You should do a video on the best hip checks in hockey or the best open ice hits.

At 6:56 he did actually break his neck. Absolutely disgusting play, I remember watching it live. The player never fully recovered and was never at the level he was before this hit. Sad

You got it exactly right... You cannot hit somebody or check somebody if the puck is not around you

Been knocked out a couple times from hits. Worst was a blindside elbow to the head and I was out for a couple minutes

The worst thing I seen was as a kid 1989 Clint Malarchuk neck was cut open by a skate and he was bleeding out on ice... was so scary

When I was about 15, I took a knock from a guy who tried to hit me but I saw it coming and moved…his knee went straight into my thigh and I was on crutches for the next 3 months. Didn’t break my leg, but gave my a contusion so bad my left thigh was black by the time I got to the hospital. I’ll never forget it. Bending my knee was impossible and I went through some excruciating physical therapy just to get my muscles back to normal.

Isn’t Zednik the one who also got his carotid artery sliced open. I remember that being heart stopping. He is one of 2 players in the NHL that have had their throat cut open. The other one is Clint. I recommend not looking it up if your squeamish of blood. That incident was horrific.

People used to play this game without helmets. For a very long time there where men who played GOALIE without a mask or helmet.

After the Pacioretty hit, the league was forced to redesign the partition at the end of the bench. It's now a round plexiglass turnbuckle.

Some of these happened in retaliation for other dirty hits.

Claude Lemeuix, Cooke, And Dino Ciccarelli as Forwards Samuelson and "I dont know (stevens was hard but clean), perhaps Odelein or Kasperatius/Marchment with the knees?" Billy smith as G

Should watch hits from forumer nhl player Niklas Kronwall most of his hits should have been called for charging because he’s targeted the player before they would have the puck. Also should watch Moritz Seider he has a lot of hits from when people are trying to hit him in his defensive zone and he just sits them down.

1:36 oh yes. It took a while, but Lemeiux got what he had coming.

The one at 6:31 where you said he coulda broke his neck, well he did broke his neck but came back the season after

That Pacioretty hit really could have derailed his career but he came back strong. Bunch of broken bones in the face. They even modified the shape of the glass so the lip isn't such a big edge.

Back a few years ago in high school hockey, I had the same thing happen to me as in the second clip. Got right back up though, played the rest of the game, and the next day I ended up having to go to hospital and was diagnosed with a major concussion:( was not fun lol

you should watch the 1998 fight avalanche vs wings, was a whole ice brawl and the goalies even fought too! Is was a part of that rivalries in the late 90's or early 2000's

You should react to the world baseball classic,your country is in it.

I’m surprised Marty McSorley wasn’t in the original compilation. Correct me if I’m wrong but he’s the only player I know of to be charged with assault after a nasty high stick.

You should check out fight night at the Joe if you want to see one of the most brutal NHL games.

You should take a look at the Clint Malarchuk incident.

I've been checked into boards from 3 feet out. Blindsided me (men's league no checking) and smashed my head into the board and then it bounced off the ice. Tried to get up to fight him but couldn't even stand. Concussion. If it was against the boards it would not have hurt. If it had been middle ice, the impact would hurt but I wouldn't have hit the boards in the air. Definitely, the worst I've had.

These elbow pads are solid as cement

You should see a hit this year from Kegan kolesar against Buffalo this year, the clip is to short to make a video out of but I garentee you'll question everything you know about physics

Should have put the Bertuzzi retaliation on the video if going to put the Moore hit

I'm a little surprised that the "Bertuzzi vs Moore" incident didn't show up in this video (the hit that lead up to it did), but when asked "What is the dirtiest hit you have ever seen?", that would be my answer. Wasn't even really a hit, more like assaulting another player on the ice. It ended Steve Moore's career, and I personally don't think that Todd Bertuzzi's suspension was long enough (mainly because most of the suspension was during a lock-out, so no one was playing.)

2:18 Matt Cooke essentially ended Marc Savard's career with that hit. Savard had to lay in a dark room for months because of it. Cooke is one of the NHL's dirtiest players of the last 30 years. You should watch a compilation of him.

Every Canadian knows that three to five feet from the boards is the danger zone if you hit them wrong and they connect with the boards and snap the head back it can be a career or life ending hit.

Still love that Bure hit.

10:05 Darcey Tucker getting hit is like 185 pounds. Sutton hitting him is like 240 lbs. MMA has weight classes. Hockey does not.

I was at the game when Dean McAmmond got clocked by Downie. He was unconscious for a while, and that was the beginning of the end of his NHL career. I hate Steve Downie to this day...

Paul karyia best video to hear how hard it was is game 6 of the 03 Stanley cup final 4:04 video he was unconscious for almost a min. Doesn’t remember getting hit etc. he had 6 concussions in his career so sad.

this where the CODE comes into play

Mert have you seen the Richard Zednik of the Florida Panthers accident? If these hits have you squirming in your seat, that one will throw ya right off of it.

claude lemieux drove Draper into the boards was one of the worst hits of all time, kris draper broke almost every bone in his head, he was lucky to survive that

The number of times I watched my brother get hit, a few became almost normal

You should react to Dustin byfuglien crazy skill and also a mammoth of a man who would not hesitate to obliterate his opponent

The boards are no longer wood. They are a steel framework with hard plastic covering them. Not much give at all to them.

2:10 super mario