@@michaelm3345Plus every team had multiple guys that could fight, not just the single “enforcer” that most teams (might) dress nowadays! Some nights there would be 3, 4, 5 or 6 different fights, all involving a new pair of combatants. Some nights you would wonder if teams had enough guys left on the bench to finish the game? The 1980s (and early 1990s) were peak NHL days
Back then, didn’t every team play a home-and-home against each of their divisional rivals? Add that to the fact that you had to win your division in the playoffs and that is the recipe for complete animosity! As a Leaf fan, I can honestly say that I had a palpable hatred for each and every Norris Division foe! It might have taken them a while, but the Leafs’ first (and only) Norris Division title in the 1993 playoffs was by far the sweetest revenge ever for years of mismanagement and struggle
Thanks for all your videos I grew up in this era of hockey, when men were men always had to keep your head up! Really miss those days in the old Chicago Stadium, the Arena in St. Louis and the Joe. Would have loved to have went to Maple leafs Garden!
What a great night this is watching the original six. I never watch todays game and its because of THIS is how it was and always will be played. Great share. RIP Probie
Man, watching clips like this, after watching the Canucks/Jackets game live last night (or any modern game really), you realize how much the game has changed! It was war out there back in the day!
@@grep67well it's impressive you can watch it at all. The new game is just to casual to me. It doesn't seem like the players care if they win or lose and if they don't why should I lol.
The Red Wings had 93 points that year and made the Conference Finals before falling to a vastly superior Oilers team in 5, including an OT loss in Game 4 that would have tied the series
Only time I've ever seen Clark take a serious beating. Semenko avenged this by jumping Probert later, but Probert knocked the hell out of Semenko in the rematch.
Gallant jumped in just as Probert was getting going. Would have been a good one had he not done that. Remember reading something about Probert telling Gallant to stay out of his business from now on.
