Tony Twist talking about the role of the Enforcer 

exactly what I thought, great attitude

Definitely...

Same with Gino Odjick, great guy... Sasha Lakovic R.I.P he was an awesome guy to get to buddy around with

Is he still in St. Louis?

@@rolandkennedy80 yep.

@@Finn_220 yea and I'm the president of the u.s.

@@christianstokes1468 look at the shirt he's wearing. Missouri Windshields.

Cool ...grown man wearing another mans name😂....Pathetic

Semenko vs Shultz Not bad either

The Reality Channel I lived literally right next door to the old twisters on imperial Main Street! Great place. Had his big ass head blown up in a picture on the side lol

Tony was a mid-level enforcer until he hit the ... cough cough .... gym in his second stint in St. Louis.

+31terreri That's because the tough guys of today are pursuing mma not hockey.

Good point....

+Visceral Abyss I like John Scott but he is no where in the same league as Twist,McSorley or Brown ..he is a college kid who avg 5 fights a year vs nobody

The game has changed and the role of the enforcer isn't there anymore. That said the characters that came with the enforcers made the game more exciting and really created a sense of rivalry that the game has sorely lost.

I agree, well at least most players but the hardcore tough guys like Williams, Twist, Fotiu would be another story

What did u expect

..guess i'm just old and "don't get it" but fighting and acting like a keyboard hero is something I will never understand.

You seem equally literate on either handle.

Excellent video...don't even worry about the dummies

He lost plenty.

He was always a ferocious fighter, but it took him "bulking up" to really be the monster he was in St. Louis on his second stint. I was at the old Bradley Center in Milwaukee at an Admirals-Peoria game and the Admirals guys (I think it was Hunt and Hawkins) handled Chase and Twist pretty well. But, man, what a duo 18 and 39 were with the Blues. Fun days.

Tie Domi, Joey Kocur and McSorely are the top 3. They were a generation before

@@knightrider693 None of them would have a positive record against those 3 I mentioned (at their prime)

Seriously? None of you list Probert in the top 3?

@@kfjdsoihf8452 You need to study up a bit.

Probert has to be top 3. I saw him beat Twist. He did lose to Laraque but that was late in Probert's career. In his prime he might've beat him.

I remember when Greg Campbell was with the Bruins he was a 4th liner, so sometimes he had to go. I felt bad for him, but also admired him, because it was not on his nature. He would definitely fight not to lose, but he still lost a lot, anyway.....lol

@@Jb667-y6q No I was there. Tie was terrified.

Steroids make a lot of people tough. Guy was a punching bag

@@mikehanzal9562 Haters gonna hate. Btw, tell him that to his face. Yeah, I thought so.

@@kevino4846 he has AIDS now from sharing needles. Guy was a fucking punching bag

He's not the best

@@mach5895 None. Went to the playoffs many times, but never took the Cup.

The kicker to that story is that at the time Chaser came back and fought Twist, Tony was Chase's tenant. Kelly kept his house after he left but rented it to Twist.

+ironhorse127 why are you surprised ? Because he was an enforcer he is supposed to be a dummy ?

Jo Z well every guy who fought doesn't have head issues

5 minutes would be a good night for him lol. I used to read the boxscores in the newspaper everyday back then and Twist was always in the 2-3 minute range. The dude pretty much never hit the ice until an opponent needed correcting.

He actually had a decent record in Quebec. Including a complete knockout of Mike Peluso.

he was but he was still one of the best fighters in the NHL.

You mean, "When I'm getting my ass kicked go for the wrestling takedown Vukota". That guy?

Twist and Vukota are great friends and have driven their motorcycles cross country together.

No way is it a Better Game, Bettman blew it

Rob Ray was a punk who cheated with his equipment coming off.

Watch them both when they played in Peoria il for the riverman great times

@@Cutlerypotato him and everybody else. Twist is one scary guy for sure!

I didn't think that at first but I can definitely see it haha

Saw an interview regarding Keenan by Hull , said he will never forgive Keenan for some of the shit he did while there. Flyers players hated him as well but he was fairly successful everywhere he went just a douchebag. Should have had his first Cup in Philly instead of NYR

keenan was the only coach that gave him a regular shift! and he didn't deserve to play any more than he did in any other year! i love the rough stuff and especially this era, was a collector myself back in the day but this guy was as one dimensional as it gets! he wasn't nearly as intimidating as he thinks of himself! he hardly played and could hardly skate! most of the league ignored him!

@@DrunkenGuitarGuy you’re thinking of Darren Kimble who could barely skate. 😉

@@WhereDaToofpaste twist had 28 points in 445 games. kimble had 43 points in 311 games, who was the bigger plug??

@@DrunkenGuitarGuy the biggest shame about this agreeing to disagree is that Bob Probert isn’t around any longer to tell us which of those two enforcers he was more cautious of. Not saying Probert was scared of either one but if you ever talk to a legit tough guy in depth long enough about fighting they’ll tell you how they get almost violently sick to their stomach and feel like they have to throw up from the adrenaline rush that comes along in the seconds before the fight or flight when it doesn’t get converted into kinetic energy that gets spent by making use of it. And for the record I certainly don’t pretend to be one myself I just always found that first hand description utterly fascinating. I guess it’s like Tyson once said. Everyone has a plan until they get punched in the face. And that quote comes from a guy who used to cry before every fight. There’s something to it. I realize I’m wandering off point but after all we’re both talking about being fans of the enforcer role so it has some small correlation.

This guy would have been destroyed by Dave The Hammer Schultz

Twist can go down too

Hey numbnuts I don't have Corona virus I'm speaking facts. Can you stand up to Twist if not shut the fuck up

@Stu FF lol right that 80,s batch of enforcers were the toughest group of fighters to ever come into the league bigger an meaner than ever schultz was great but wouldve had a very tough time against the enforcers of the 82 thru 89 period

@@anthonycothran352 Shultz win against Twist??? 1 out of 10 maybe. _Maybe._ So...you're not a hockey fan. What else are you a piss-poor authority on?

He didn't beat up crowder. He took him down to the ice. Didn't land a punch

I remember the beating he laid on Rob Ray. He broke a bunch of bones in Ray's face.

every time

Willie Gordon , guess you did not see all of their fights

No more roids to keep him looking chiseled.

I was thinking more like Vince Vaughn

Would still feel like a Mack truck if you were hit by him

Compared to Probert ,he was a novice. Probie was an all star who played a regular shift,Twist was a liability on the ice,

Probert was the only enforcer who played a regular shift he was a good hockey player who made all star,also the best fighter in NHL history

If

He was not there to score goals, he was there to protect the skill players, make sure the other team didn't take liberties and intimidate the other team. He was one of the best at that, if you got out of control out there you knew you were going to have to face the music. There were very few guys that could fight like he did and score goals...

Trev Mac The role of an enforcer or a grinder is not to score goals, it's to clear the way for someone else to do that. Also, to smack the shit out of anyone who fucks with the goal scorers. You might as well say goaltenders are useless because they don't score or assist they just stand there

Joey Kocur could challenge that feat as the hardest puncher

I like to see how he would do if he fought people like Dave the Hammer Schultz or Terry O Reilly or like a John Ferguson or anyone else on the Philadelphia flyers broad street bullies. Those guys would have destroyed Twist and had him intimidated I guarantee that

@@anthonycothran352 Twist at his prime would beat all of them.

role in hockey doesn't dicate intelligence

They are both great. All time? Not so sure about that

Tony was a bad ass yes. He played in the nhl 10 years. Who knows how things would've ended up if not for his accident. Years 1-6 Tony was a 1 dimensional fighter. He was mediocre. Throwing right handed bombs at all times. When he came into the 95-96 season he was a different fighter all together and had a extra 20lbs of muscle. Twist from here on was a beast. Was pounding and dominating players. Prime twist was a monster. Just wasn't around long enough

BOB PROBERT

You obviously never saw Probert lol

Joe Kocur by far

+Robert Boyd didn't need to wasn't his job his was there to enforce and he was one of the best at it

Yeah, just following some some guys named Wayne Gretzky, Brett Hull, Al MacInnis.. Heard of them maybe?🙄

like who

Joey Kocur and Derek Boogaard and Colton Orr damaged a lot of ppl

How bout Dave the hammer Schultz, Terry O Reilly,John Ferguson,even Bobby Orr of the Bruins. Do you have any idea what certain players on the Flyers ( broad Street bullies would have done to Tony Twist if he had of played in that era? A lot of players in the NHL during the Twist era weren't good fighters.

The players I have mentioned would have torn Twist apart

@@anthonycothran352 Probert,Dave Brown ,Kocur,Laraque ...yeah terrible fighters ....Bobby Orr ? wtf ..give it a rest

ricter29 I've met him at my job several times when his guys would come to do windshield repairs. Shaking his hand made mine look like a baby hand. Steroids or not the man had boulders on the end of each arm. Always a great guy to be around too. He likes to fight yes but that didn't mean he was hateful. Even now he's still in great shape considering most retired players live a fairly laid back way. Still a scary sight of you're on his bad side.

Thats why he is fat, all those stereoids

@@gamesoldier7038 Twister was an amateur boxer also. Just because they are enforcers doesn't mean they did steroids ffs. I'm not saying they didn't, but no one really knows for sure. You're just throwing crap at the wall knowing others will see it and repeat it

@@kbehrends1950 sure...