The Most FEARED Player For All 32 NHL Teams 

Probert played for Chicago late in his career but he was the terror of the nhl when he was playing for Detroit. He and Kocur were feared throughout the league except by maybe Domi and McSorley. Putting Probert down as a Blackhawk instead of a Red Wing is highly controversial.

As someone who has spent most of his life around rinks all over, I can tell you that the enforcers are some of the nicest people I have ever met off the ice.

You give Probert to the Blackhawks and don't mention Stu Grimson for them...Are you trying to create a parody?

The Caps once had the best named line, the Capital Punishment line with Dale Hunter, Craig Berube and Chris Simon.

Scott Stevens was terrifying for the Devils. And nobody really wanted to fight Clark Gillies for the Islanders.

R.I.P. Bob Probert R.I.P. Derek Boogard

Geordie Howe’s toughness is best shown in a 21 year span starting in 1949, he missed a total of 20 games. That is tough. Especially in that era with lesser equipment and fewer rules.

For the Rangers, you should have at least given an honorable mention to Nick Fotiu.

You should have put Probert on Detroit, because he was kind of not in his prime on Chicago. I'm pretty sure you could have done some digging for the entire Chicago franchise instead of using Probert's second team. He was known for being tough with the Red Wings jersey on, not Blackhawks. He even scored 20 goal seasons and made the 1989 All-Star game, and got autographs from the other conference.

To shed some light on McSorely. He was never the dirtiest player. He was the head of the players union and was one of the most respected guys on the ice. He fought and beat evwryone. In fact, he hunted probert. The longest fight in nhl history was McSorley and Probert. It ended when probert just skated backwards and McSorely asked him if he wanted to stop. Probert said, "i have nothing left". McSorley told the linesman to step in. Another fight they had McSorley was getting the better of him when he suddenly stopped and grabbed Probert with both hands. All action stopped. The linesmen stepped in and removed McSorley's helmet. Proberts finger was horribly caught in McSorley's helmet. Probert was on record saying "Marty could have killed me. He could have ripped my finger off my hand. He could have done anything he wanted. But he didn’t. He stopped and told the lineman who removed his helmet. He could have done whatever he wanted but he did the ine thing that saved me." Both times those fights ended with them touching their heads and skating away. Lastly. The Brashear thing... that was horrible. Itbwas at the end of McSorley's career. Brashear had gotten the best of McSorley in a fight earlier in the game. Marty was looking for him the rest of the game and going hard at him. Bybthe rime the game was winding down Brashear was ignoring him and Marty was incensed. As he said later, he tried taking the flat of the blade and slapping it against his helmet. He said all he wanted was to get his attention not to hurr him at all. Instead, the tip of the blade caught him UNDER the helmet and right on the temple. You can see what happened. Not making ANY excuses for him at all. However. The look on McSorley's face when he realized what he did was anytbing but someone who did that on purpose. He looked devestated. So, yeah. He was my favorite player growing up. And by all accounts, he was loved and respected by the entire league. I just want to try to ste the record straight. Did he do sometbing horrible? Yes. But by all accounts it wasnt intentional, he has spoken with Brashear about it since, and he felt horrible about it. He fought everyone and he and Probert were THE heavyweights of the era. He just wasn't dirty as this vid makes put. Anyway, just some pwrspective. Thank you for your time.

Scott Parker was the Avs BMF it's not even close.

I've always heard that, when signing with the Kings, Gretzky insisted that Marty McSorley be a part of the deal, because Marty was his most effective protector. He was a very tough dude, but a really nice guy. It's a huge shame that the Brashear incident is all most people define him by.

Probe is more so known as a Redwing

Many good choices here. Many are also up for debate. Example, the Bruins. They had so many feared players, but nobody compares to Chara. I'm a Leaf fan but I've always thought that monster was the one player that nobody would want to mess with.

Stan Jonathan was more feared than O Reilly. Ask Butch Bouchard who he'd rather face.

I am 60 years old now and from Philly. I have seen all of the greats. The Title of the video is "The Most Feared" and there is one player that stands alone on the top of that list. Most Feared implies that when you have to play against this guy, you don't want to have to drop the gloves. There were many players who had no fear when it came to dropping the gloves but there was only one player that as an enforcer, you didn't really want to have to go fist city with. Of course I'm talking of none other than Dave Schultz. There were plenty of tough guys who played in Philly; Berube, Brown, Lindros, Tocchet, Kordic...only one guy was truly feared and that was Schultz.

Probert also made the all star team when he played for Detroit.

Few names missing. Kelly Buchberger kept Gretzky safe for many years in Edmonton and Chris Nilan - his nickname “knuckles” says it all.

great video man!! you did a phenomenal job compiling all of this! i appreciate you!!

Gino Odjick for Canucks, even tiger would fear him

For Sabres, #1 is Larry Playfair. Not even close. Even Ray would agree. Ray fought a lot and was a dangerous fighter, but he was on the smaller side and lost a lot. Playfair was the NHL heavyweight champ for several years, and ruined players' careers. He fought less, because no one wanted to fight him.

Tony Twist and Kelly Chase were known as the "Bruise Brothers" when they played for the Peoria Riverman the Blues top minor league team. I had a t-shirt of them dressed like the Blues Brothers holding hockey sticks. The Riverman had an awesome team, won 18 games in a row, a record at the time for pro hockey.

Great video. Thank you!

Blackhawks should have been Al Secord. Only player EVER to score 50 goals in the same season he had over 300 penalty minutes. He was the enforcer for Denis Savard and the perfect line mate for Steve Larmer.

Nashville should be tootoo, he is the only reason I got into hockey growing up

Good job. Tough to narrow it down. Clark Gillies certainly was very feared for the Islanders. Nick Fotiu for the Rangers. Behn Wilson and Dave Brown for the Flyers. Nilan and Ferguson were feared for the Candiens, but Larry Robinson might have been the most feared after he took apart Dave Schultz.

Very enjoyable video, thank you! Correction: 19:18 Randy McKay has 1418 Penalty Minutes with the New-Jersey Devils... not 1418 Points. 25:14 What is Tarasenko doing there instead of the image of Tony Twist?

The Champ: Tie "Cement Head" Domi. Short, scrappy, could throw a punch, could take a punch. Pulling a Flyers fan into the penalty box is classic.😊

Gordie Howe was once offered a professional boxing contract, by a Detroit boxing promoter, early in Howe's career. He turned it down. Boxing lost, hockey won.

As a long time Calgary fan I agree that Tim Hunter should be the Flames representative on the list. And that Roberts and Peplinski deserved serious consideration as well. But Fleury, as much as we liked him, was more of a pest and a nuisance than someone other teams feared. Put Joel Otto there instead. Those Flames teams of the late 80's - early 90's were tough. They pretty much had an enforcer on every line.

Why did you show a picture of Tarasenko for Tony Twist?

Love the nod for Laraque, but IMO Dave Semenko gets the Oilers title...I mean, he DID fight Muhammed Ali

Love your video explaining style such a simple and cool video 💥 and Tie domi is the best Enforcer in my view

Big time wrong on your NY islanders pick. Clark Gillies was the most feared player. Protected Trottier and Bossy and helping the Islanders to a NHL record 19 straight playoff series wins.

Sorry dude but Clarke Gillies was the toughest Islander... Nobody ever beat him that I can remember and nobody wanted to fight him... Ask Dave Schultz...And he could score 40 goals.

Dave Brown of the flyers I don't remember him ever losing/ he killed DOMI

Blues had a lot! Twist, Chase, Butcher, Gastoff, Mayers, Stevens, McRae, Pronger

I always associated Bob Probert with Detroit. The toughest guy I've ever seen for the whole league all time was Bob Gassoff with the Blues.

I think you focused too much on penalty minutes than actual fighting ability. For the Sharks, Jeff Odgers was a punching bag. I would’ve picked Scott Parker. For the Canucks I would’ve picked Gino Odjick. For the Oilers, Laraque hugged more than punch. My Oilers pick would be Dave Brown. For Toronto, Domi fought a ton, but John Kordic was way better. For the Devils, Steven’s is a good pick, but I’d go with Ken Daneyko. There are more, but I’ll stop there. In the video you say the ‘60s was the toughest era, but I would say the ‘90s were way more violent. The amount of fights that occurred were off the charts.

Great video!!! Boston - Chara, Lucic, Thornton, Neely all should have been before O’Reilly.

For Nashville I think it should be Tootoo. I’d put Belak, McGrattan, Cote and Hartnell before Grimson.

Brashear could use an honorable mention. Overshadowed on Philly but he was the one cat that had dominated Domi every time they fought, and a top contender for his time. Chara as well. Not known so much for his fighting at the NHL level but when he went off with that physical stature other players were in danger of getting shaken baby syndrome.

You need a more attentive editor. That was clearly James Neal first shown to be Stu Grimson. Lots of little errors or clips replaying.

There’s one more enforcer for the Vancouver Canucks and that was Gino odjick

We all love Gordie. But if you’re saying he’s more feared than Bob Probert or Joey Kocur for Detroit you’re fucking crazy.

You left off Downtown Dave Brown. Steve (Big Mac) Macintyre.

McKay *did not* get 1418pts in NJ lol he's got 363 CAREER pts 😂

Well done !

I think Colorado's contribution should be Chris Simon. He was a menace.

The only reason Probert as a Blackhawk don’t aggravate me is of course Mr. Hockey. I liked Scott Stevens too, he didn’t have to drop gloves to get the msg out, he was one of the most vicious open ice hitters in the game. Curiously one name should have been on this list somewhere, even though he had a short career I think Link Gaetz was probably the one guy most players never wanted to drop gloves with.

cant believe this list does not include Dale Hunter Hunter is the only player in NHL history to have more than 1,000 points (1,020; 323 goals, 697 assists) and 3,000 penalty minutes (3,565, second all-time to Dave Williams)10 years of 200 plus penalty minutes

Drop the friggin gloves!!!! Thanks for a great video.

every preds fan would say Jordan Tootoo. legend

I met Tahir when he was playing for Newmarket. He was playing against my cousin who was Tie's teammate in Peterborough. Tie walked up to us and the first thing he did was say HI to my aunt. Nice touch. He is built like a freaking fire hydrant. I don't know why but that is the impression I got of him. He isn't tall but he has the look that you don't wanna mess with him. One of their teammates knocked my cousins front teeth out trying to toughen him up. He was big but he wanted to be a goal scorer. He was one of the top scorers on all the teams he played on. He should have toughened up as he never played a game in the NHL!!

Domi will always be remembered for hiding behind the ref from Richardson, Berube and McCarthy, then going after Adam Burt while he was tied up with Kaberle. Wendel would have never done that.

I'd choose Cam Neely or Milan Lucic over O'Reilly. Maybe even Chara or Thornton

As a Dallas Stars fan and also a Minnesota North Stars fan before they moved to Dallas, i have to go with Dave Richter as the most fear guy for the franchise. Shane Churla for the Dallas Stars who also played with the Minnesota North Stars

Cool video, I can tell how young you are by how you mispronounce some of the names 😜 but still awesome to be giving these guys a shout out, great job!

Alright I gotta put my 2 cents in here. We are talking about scariest player right? Sharks- Link Gates. Devils- Cam Janssen Bruins-Bobby Shmautz Red wings- Joey Kocur (cause he ended Jim Kyte's career and destroyed Brad Delgarno's face with one punch, breaking his cheek, jaw and orbital bone.) while with red wings. Flyers- I got a tie between Shultz and Dave Brown. Every NHLer who played in that era was afraid of Brownie. Rangers- Barry Beck. Canucks- Gino Odjick (just cause I met Tiger Williams and he was the nicest old man ever. He came in our locker room after a game in Jr's. I asked him how many times he broke his nose, he said he lost count after the 10th time. Calgary- I'm bringing back Nick Fotiu over Timmy. That's about all I can think of off the top of my head.

Wendel Clarke was and is 10 times tougher than Domi , Clarke hid from no one!!

Man, how'd I know the Sabre of choice was gonna be Rayzor? Took a puck to the dome the other night between the benches and he finished the broadcast with a bloodied eyebrow.

Islanders - Clark Gilles. Case closed.

Great video but you put a picture of Vladimir Tarasenko up for Tony Twist. :-)

I thought Colorado would be either Claude Lemieux or Dale Hunter

you left out the fact that Joey Kocur had a devastating right hand (probably the best punch in Hockey).. he was a true enforcer, who was there to protect his teammates.. he rarely took cheap shots at the other teams skill players... that's why his PIM are not as high as others... he normally did not take "bad" penalties... and one more thing... the first photo you show of Kocur.... is not Kocur... I don't know who it is.. but it's not him

Also Marty micSorley was the enforcer with the great one Wayne Gretzky during the LA kings team

Really cool video but you have some pictures wrong. There’s Sean Avery instead of Joey Kocur and Vladimir Tarasenko instead Tony Twist.

Chris Nilan is still my choice for Montreal. Feared and hated by all the other Adams division(toughest ever) and could still play some hockey. Knuckles has a great podcast now, invite anyone to watch it.

Eddie Shore was Boston's most feared player, not Terry O'Reilly. What makes a player feared is NOT penalty minutes. Opponents put in hospital is what counts.

Hunter was a good enforcer but Fotiu, McGrattan, Lucic, and a few others were way more feared.

Anaheim Ducks - Skillwise it was Paul Kariya as he was smart and skilled enough to trick any defense or goalie. Reason why Gary Sutter and Scott Stevens attacked him. Otherwise it would be Corey Perry as he was both skilled and rough combined with being somewhat dirty so he got under player's skin easily for many years. Buffalo Sabres - Dominik Hasek 110% was the player who made opponent teams fear the Sabres as Hasek, the living wall had proven great enough to carry his whole team whole seasons and long play-off runs. Hasek could steal any great players scoring touches and bring em down to terrify the audience. New Jersey Devils - 1000% dirty Scott Stevens !!!! Pittsburgh Penguins - Mario Lemieux / Jaromir Jagr. Pick your poison because either Lemieux or Jagr was the best point scorer for several seasons and you let one go, the other would score, and throw on sneaky Ron Francis and the set was complete! Its criminal how dirty teams was against Lemieux, fearing his incredible skills.

Also tim hunter was part of the Vancouver Canucks team

Peter worrel is best goon of florida😅.

Really dude, Domi ……. Clark is by far the most feared player that was ever on the leafs

Wpg Jets loved Tie Domi...when he played for us.

You missed on the Rangers. Most feared fighter all time was (is) Nick Fotiu.

Probert and Kocur played together with detroit for quit a few years AKA The Bruise Brothers

For the Blackhawks an honorable mention should go to John Scott.

I can recommend spitting chiclets interview with Vukota, seems like an unreal guy!

I remember O' Riley very well. Between him and Stan Jonathan, their job was to let Brad Park and Wayne Cashman pick fights and the boys would hoe in. Cashman would get his butt kicked if he followed thru with a fight, so the boys would bail him out. Jonathan was a little honey badger and a better fighter than O' Riley. Their battles with the Flyers in the day were classics. Another Whaler with a tough rep but not the minutes was Rick Ley, renowned for pounding USSR star Valery Kharlamov during an international series. It was noted. Probert was just off. He would have been nicknamed "Bugs" if he joined the Mafia. Maybe a better carer choice. He really didn't need a helmet. Howe was pretty much off limits when I saw hi with the Houston Aeros of the AHL, but being an AHL club they had other guys for that sort of thing. Research the Birmingham Bulls; fighting was the major part of the game plan. Being on open ice against McSorley was an invitation for a collision (clean or otherwise) . He would have been an ideal Flyer. He was a goon. And incredibly stupid to pick fights with Clark Gilles; so was anyone else. It was worth your life to try and mover Ferguson out of the crease. I grew up watching the Broad Street Bullies....'nuff said. So many to bail Bobby Clarke and Bill Barber out of trouble. Regarding Clark Gilles, he and Barber faced off in a near stick fight in Game 6 of the 1980 finals. Barber backed off when nobody came to help. Wise move, Flyers. Gilles was an animal and he loved pounding Flyers. Like a lot of these guys, Baxter had a baby face the contrasted sharply with his role. Kim Clackson of the Winnipeg Jets in the WHL was another. Clackson had to protect Bobby Hull and a bunch of Swedes, and he was very busy. Tiger is the Gold Standard. By the time he made it Vancouver his face was so flat you could eat wallpaper off it. His favorite offseason activity was bow hunting bears. True story.

Some choices are surprising at first than you think, yeah its right...like ferguson for mtl.. he's more an underground legend

Wrong on the Blues......Bob Gassoff was the menace wearing the Note......

It's still a crime against my heart to see Probie in a Blackhawk jersey.

I thought for sure Ulfie would've gotten at least an honorable mention on one of these teams.

Check out the Documentary "The Last Gladiators" Fighting and Protecting is why Chris Nilan was brought into the Canadiens organization. I'm fine with the rest of them.

I think Dan Carcillo was the tough guy for AZ

terry oreilly was not the best fighter, he just had your back. but stan jonathan, nobody fought him if they had a working neuron.

I remember probert on the hawks when i was a kid and i remember him fighting on many occasions but he lost al.ost all of those fights. He never got knocked out because he had a meatball inside his skull instead of a brain like me, but he didnt throw as many punches or as hard a punches than he did in detroit. Pound for pound chelios was the tuffest blackhawk and the best fighter probably goes to grimson or manson and hardest hitter might be Byfuglien.

I wouldn’t include Basil McRae if you specifically want to reference Dallas and not the prior Minnesota franchise history since he never actually played in Dallas. Some others to consider: Shane Churla, Todd Harvey, Steve Ott, Antoine Roussel.

for the islanders its has to be Nystrom or Gillies period.

too bad it’s just one player because TERRIBLE TED one of the most feared and respected platters of allllll time!!! forever grateful he was who he was

Berube spent the first seven years with the Flyers where he averaged more PIM/game than he did in Washington. Dave Schultz was a bad man, but he was not the Flyers' best fighter - that would be Behn Wilson, who consistently ragdolled almost every tough guy in the league. Not many videos exist of him, but he would take several punches to the face without any effect simply to position himself to pummel his opponent. He'd later turn over the puck in his zone in the third period, leading to a back-breaking goal. Dave Brown and Glen Cochrane were not far behind Wilson. My favorite "enemy" fighter not mentioned was Stan Jonathan of the Bruins. So much heart and a brutal pugilist on the ice for someone of such limited height. John Wensink was another, albeit he had the height. Larry Robinson was someone else who could throw down, beating Schultz in a memorable fight in the 1970s. Tiger Williams? Eh. Very good fighter, but nowhere near the best I've seen.

Doug "The Thug" Smith and Goldie Goldenthorpe, 2 of the toughest goons both talked about Nick Fotiu being one of the toughest players of All-time, who can you not have him as Rangers toughest???

Stan Jonathan for the Bruins is an Honorable Mention

You have a picture of Sean Avery for Kocur lol

Howe was feared for his physical play and scoring. A true all around player. I would add Mark Messier with Howe . Domi and Nilon not so much. You would never see them on the ice in a key playoff game.

Scott Stevens is the Career ender Lindros and Karyia are the biggest examples

Pound for pound Rick Rypien was a tough fighter.

As someone has been watching hockey since 1980 when I was 7yrs old,growing up in Philly and being somewhat of a hockey historian,I have to disagree with at least half these choices..as flyers fans growing up i automatically knew the best fighter from the other teams for the last 50 years I would say..I do like your videos though

Some about the big buff that I would absolutely sharrt myself if I was on the ice at the same time lmao.