NHL Players Who KILLED Their Careers 

Dude don’t fan the flames with that stupid Corey Perry rumor nonsense.

Corey Perry isn’t to blame for internet rumors… I don’t like guy but this is silly.

Todd Bertuzzi went on to play 9 seasons in the NHL after the Steve Moore incident. In fact, he had 71 points in the season directly after the incident (which was the 3rd best season of his career). Now the season after that he missed almost the entire season due to an injury and after that his point totals dropped. The narrative you're trying to create for this video isn't correct, injury and age (he was in his 30s) are why his numbers dropped off. Sorry but that didn not "kill" his career, it certainly hurt his reputation but the hyperbole is too much.

If you played in the NHL for 18 years........yeah that's a full career. Nothing dead about it, pure BS.

The Corey Perry take aged like milk in the sun. 😂

- Mike Danton (hired a hitman to kill either his agent or his father, spent 5 years in federal prison, deported to Canada, no team was willing to pay his legal fees required to return to the USA (ie. entry waiver). Nonetheless continued playing in Quebec and Sweden) - Slava Voynov (domestic assault against his wife, voluntarily returned home to Russia and won a Gagarin Cup, gave up on a second NHL chance following a lengthy season-long 2019-20 suspension) - Brendan Leipsic (made misogynistic comments on Instagram, left for Russia and is now a Russian citizen producing solid numbers in the KHL) - Marty McSorley (clubbed Donald Brashear, convicted of assault) - Jake Virtanen (2017 sexual assault allegations surfaced in 2021, eventually leading to a charge that he was eventually acquitted of. Faltered on a second chance in Edmonton) - Mitch Miller (a case of ending a career before it even started, but bullying a Black youth since school. Now in Slovakia) - Alex Galchenyuk (arrested and charged for an alcohol-enraged incident this past July. Jumped ship to Russia) - Milan Lucic (domestic assault charge driven by alcohol. Likely that his career is over given his lack of production) Speaking of Danton, his statement of going to prison over failing in the NHL is like making a choice between death and expulsion… Needed to get his priorities in order

Dead wrong about Corey Perry being hated. He's not responsible for Internet rumors. He is arguably a Hall of Famer

There's also the long list of players that ruined their career and reputations due to drugs/alcohol/bar fights: Mike Ribeiro, the Kostitsyn brothers, Kevin Stevens, Theo Fleury, etc.

Cory Perry DID NOT sleep with Connor's Mom. How awful of you to perpetuate that rumor. It hurt Connor, and his Mom, so much that people started that horrible rumor.

I'm surprised you didn't mention the hamburger incident with Link Gaetz. While playing for the Thetford Mines Prolab (LNAH) 2005, he sat on the bench for the first and second periods. During the intermission before the third period he changed out of his skates and uniform and bought a hamburger from the concession stand and ate it. The team considered this disrespectful and Gaetz was suspended for the rest of the season and was called one of the quirkiest athletes because of this.

If Avery tried that on Billy Smith he'd have no ankles left

Mike Danton is one of the strangest scandals in hockey. I knew some people who went to school with the girl he asked to find him a hit man. One was friends with her younger brother and had been to their house I think. I remember seeing a party near my work thrown to celebrate when she was officially cleared of any wrongdoing.

These guys are the result of being pulled away from their families at 15,16 years old, never being socialized and then thrown buckets of money at them.

Nobody who actually followed Marty McSorley career remembers him for the stick incident and I'll bet many have already forgotten about it. It happened at the end of his career, when he was already a journeyman player playing on one of the worst Boston Bruins teams ever. Most people will remember McSorley from LA or Edmonton

Poor Corey Perry, broke Ty Conklins record of losing 3 cups in 4 years with 3 different teams

Whoa, the Perry segment sure didn't age well. Also, why are we assuming that sleeping with a teammate's mother is a hideous act? Look at how many NHL players married teammates' sisters. Perry and Bedard's mother are pretty close in age. I say this without any knowledge of the existence, or relationship with Bedard's father.

Idc what people say about Avery, the "Avery Rule" was hilarious

I remember watching Danton win the university cup with the huskies, his story is bizarre

Actually went to SMU with Danton when he was attending studying criminology myself there-played beer league with him there as well LOL

Perry didn’t ruin his Career he had a successful Career!

Where's Lucic?

Great video! Brian "Spinner" Spencer was also one that could be mentioned but I think this is about realatively recent NHL history, Lots of players in the past with crazy stories. I guess young men with millions of dollars can cause issues.Hockey Alumni youtuber also has great content

Perry's career was very successful and wrapping up anyhow. It wasn't "killed". And, and if the rumor's are true (I know we are supposed to pretend we know they are not) then he is Hall of Fame for sure....

How can you talk about Link Gaetz without mentioning his nickname in San Jose - "The Missing Link"? lol... I remember the game where he hip checked Gretzky, and Wayne did a flip in the air and landed on his back. Totally legal hit, but he got a 5 minute major. That was an important life lesson for me.

Heatley killed his career? I mean you covered how much he accomplished for the 10 years afterward. At best we can say the bum knee from the crash cause him to age out faster but he got 13 more seasons after that accident

Good video bro..👌

McSorley gave the Habs a cup in 1993.

Bert didn’t slam Moore’s head into the ice. Moore was injured when Andrew Nikolishin landed on his neck while going after Bert. You can see in the video that Bert’s hands were either side of Moore’s head

Really good video! I'm stuck every time. Keep up the good work. Greetings from Sweden

Perry signed with Edmonton less than 2 months after killing his career in Chicago. Short lived death.

1:33 those team colors make it look like Perry's in 1930's Germany, lol

Now, Avery is a goof. He does have some talent as an actor. This guy will most likely never change!

McSorely and Bertuzzi were just taking out the trash.

dang! it was quite a far cry from the 'Gallys' to the depths of nastiness when Alex was with the 'yotes.

Shane Pinto is a potential candidate too

Perry will be playing before the season ends. Any other team would have let him play. But since the hawks have some bad history they had to do something.

Can you make a vid about the firebirds please and thank you😊😊

You lost me with Heatly. Yes he committed vehicular manslaughter but this did not ruin his career and all things considered, his career was more of a comeback than a bust. He does not belong on this list but that's MHO.

Good channel…liked your video….new subscriber…was a leaf fan since I was a kid…then moved to Seattle about 30 years ago to do a post doc at UW. Now have been a huge kraken fan since they came into the league

Bertuzzi was just taking out the trash

Perry was just signed as an oiler this morning.

Great vid

Dan Snyder was a distant relative of my dad

Todd Bertuzzi wasn't booed the rest of career. He was treated great by fans in Detroit. He was cheered in Vacouver every time he played there. Get your facts straight!

Marty McSorley should have gone to jail as that’s blatant assault with a weapon

Honorable mention : Slava Voynov killed his NHL Career by brutally assaulting his wife after winning his second cup in Los Angeles to get deported back to Russia by ICE then Winning Gagarin Cup in 2017 with SKA ST Petersburg(KHL)

Sean Avery said in his book that he was basically playing a character his whole career and he was just being an exaggerated version of who he really was. Also, he made the sloppy seconds comment in an effort to get out of Dallas (which worked). He said he immediately realized how disrespectful that was to his ex, who he was still on good terms with, and felt terrible about it.

and i thought 2-tiered justice systems were only for politicians if a regular citizen did what mcsorely or bertuzzi did, we'd be in prison for 10+ years

The Blackhawks terminating comtract for misconduct is hilarious. The Blackhawks?? Ummm scandal anybody?

Was expecting to see Bob Probert on this list.

5:15 I like how you say Bertuzzi received assault charges and then tell us he received a match penalty! Lol After he was arrested, I doubt the match penalty was the thing that sent him to bed, without milk & cookies!! ;)

This is easily on of the worst researched hockey chennels on RU-vid. Do better.

i'm surprised Bob Probert is not talked about in this subject.

Bertuzzi’s reputation got hurt, but didn’t end his career… it ended Moore’s

A comment of a technical nature: that font is hard to read in the video. A simpler font would work much better

so....... Why no photo of Bedard's Mom......?

Heater's story is tradgic for the people in his life and of course the Snyder family! R.I.P. Dan! You were called up far too early!

Now Perry is with the Oilers and no one's talking about the Blackhawks situation

Part of me wonders if Heatley ever thinks about that crash and wishes it was him and not Snyder to pass away. Survivor's guilt is a pretty hardcore thing. Also, after his 2nd 50 goal season, I did a statistical analysis and at his pace he would've finished his career with over 700 goals if he played into his early 40s. What a shame. a.?/MCD

12:01 is Jeremy Roenick, not Heatley

"I dont know if you're up on current events, but we just got our asses kicked, man!" - Pvt. Hudson

I had no idea that Marty McSorley had changed his last name to Murray.

7:24 - This is very misleading. McSorley wanted to fight Brashear, who had beat him in a fight earlier in the same game. McSorley maintains that Brashear broke 'the code' by refuing to drop the gloves. Brashear has a differing opinion.

Bertuzzi got robbed. What hurt Moore was he 3 Avs that thought it was smart to dog-pile on them. 4 big players in full equipment that’s 800lbs. So why weren’t those Avs disciplined, they just don’t think.

Bertuzzi calling Moore a piece of shit is a little ironic

Wow thought there were facts on this channel

Can you make a vid about the firebirds please and thank you and buy the way the firebirds are a hooky team.❤😊

Alica Cuthbert was who he was talking about in the sloppy seconds remark, those pics wern't her

Your " views " on some of these player is down right laughable .

If you purposely go after a player and the player gets hurt and misses games then you should have to be suspended untill the player comes back. You hurt a player and knock him out for a year? Then you should be suspended untill that player comes back with no pay

Pelle Lindbergh really killed his career.

Meanwhile, Patrick Kane with his off ice scandals & Brad ratboy Marchand with his on ice antics- still able to play:😁😇

The Mike Danton saga is all things very wrong. A very disturbing course of events!

Could Bertuzzi have been a bit more, cautious, exerting his punch ? Perhaps. But since when do lions ask themselves questions about their prey"s feelings ? Moore had it coming.

4:45 - How was that supposedly done deliberately?

Sucks to see such talent put to waste

Moore could have done a lot to prevent what happened. Anyone with a hint of self awareness in that situation should know that fighting one of the smallest guys on their team and then acting like you don't need to answer the bell again, after deliberately injuring an order of magnitude superior player and captain of the other team, is a pretty quick way to make someone take matters into their own hands. If he didn't play like a rat and then try to hide in a hole instead of standing there like a man and taking the punishment that he unequivocally deserved, then he wouldn't have had to pretend like he couldn't play hockey anymore and sue Bertuzzi for damages that far outweighed any career earnings he could've possibly dreamed of making with his skill level. Bertuzzi and Naslund were never the same players after this incident and that will go down as Moore's singular accomplishment as a hockey player, nothing but a detriment to the careers of far superior players who were misfortunate enough to share the ice with a rat like him.

What happened to Moore was an accident, in my opinion. Yes, it was a cheap shot, but had he not fallen forward, Bertuzzi wouldn't have landed the way he did on him.

Mcsorley!!! A legend

This seems like more "players who ruined their reputations"

THE GOVERNMENT SHOULD SERIOUSLY LOOK INTO ALEXES RUSSIA TIES AFTER SAYING THAT SHIT

Daniel Ryder that’s a guy who ruined his NHL career he did an armed robbery pretty sure because of CTE

Great content and presentation!

Todd Bertuzzi is the man

What with this title? All these players had great long careers

Show the damn clips of what happened...man the still shots suck

McSorley couldn’t beat Brashear when the drop gloves were dropped most of the time, so he was a little bitch and did that. Now, Donald Brashear haters will call him huggy brash. in his prime him, and George Laroque were the toughest.

Moore had it coming

Sandis Ozolinsh could play more years if not for alcohol.

It's been confirmed by all parties involved that sex wasn't why Perry was let go. Pretty lazy on your part or make it the first part of your video. Gross.

I never was a fan of katty perry

Remember it takes two to tango

Marty hit Brashear in the head with his stick? Did the stick break? Anyone else but Brashear I’d feel for them, not Brashear!

Why would you not post the videos of the incidents actually happening? So stupid and illogical.

I don't blame Todd Bertuzzi for clocking Steve Moore. This is what should happen when jobbers go after star players. The problem is that there's too much media nowadays, too much of an outrage cycle.

Video starts at 2:33. Fuck the Corey Perry hate and everyone jumping to Connor Bedard's defense. He doesn't need you to fight his battles, his mom doesn't need you to fight her battles, and if he was ever really upset, he could cry into millions and millions of dollars about it.

Either your using click bait or truly need a dictionary.

All these player to player fight, you gonna charge someone when you the league allow players to fight it out and tell refs not to interfere till they go down on ice? It rlly says a lot abt dis league vs other pro league rules

lot of "new fan" takes in this video lmao

Surprised Jake Virtanen isn’t on here