Would this sum up the "old time hockey"

[PROBIE4PREZ 58]

holy s*** man .. ive been watching fights from the 70's and 80's and ive noticed something ... THEY SURE DO LIKE TO FIGHT. I stumbled across this one .... if you watch Pt. 1 a guy named redmond gets nailed into the boards... it that our very own Mickey? anyways its fun to watch em tee off on each other..

[toby91_ca 620]

holy s*** man .. ive been watching fights from the 70's and 80's and ive noticed something ... THEY SURE DO LIKE TO FIGHT. I stumbled across this one .... if you watch Pt. 1 a guy named redmond gets nailed into the boards... it that our very own Mickey? anyways its fun to watch em tee off on each other..

No, it's Dick.

[Wings_Dynasty 267]

What's that player with the big shin pads doing in front of the goal? Is that allowed? Where's the goalie???

[BeeRYCE 2]

MAD MIKE MILBURY!

Love the guy.

[toby91_ca 620]

What's that player with the big shin pads doing in front of the goal? Is that allowed? Where's the goalie???

Nice......funny thing is, that game wasn't even all that long ago, I'm guessing around 1980. Okay, so that's awhile ago, but at least in my life time, we're not talking about the 50's or 60's here. No reason why goalies can't still be that size.

[egroen 384]

The big difference I notice is the announcers --> here they are joking and laughing it up while if something like this happened today you would hear:

"Oh, this is a black eye for the sport of hockey."

"This type pf behavior is just disgusting; I have never seen anything like this in my professional career."

[Lidsyukerberg 0]

What's that player with the big shin pads doing in front of the goal? Is that allowed? Where's the goalie???

Man, you're not kidding. When the goalies were in the crowd you couldn't even tell them apart from the skaters until the camera panned down to the (tiny) leg pads. Nowadays when the goalies are out there in the crowd you can't even see the other players behind them.

[irishtemper14+25 11]

haha all 4 goalies

[GMRwings1983 8,803]

The reason my top 10 fighters of all time mostly come from that era is because that was the toughest era of fighting, and I doubt any enforcer now could hack it in that league.

The game has changed a lot with this stupid instigator rule and the constant veil that's around hockey fights, to the point where the violence is sustained.

[SweWings 45]

did the guy say "the goalies with their cumbersome equipment"?

[zombiewing 3]

my favourite quote: "the two toughest goal tenders in the league".

like, yeah, there were more than two...

back then the refs were not as hurried to break up a scrap. Hell, i remember back playing in rec leagues in the late 80s refs would let the guys just tire themselves out. tough guys showing their mettle.

tootoo would last about .03 seconds in the hockey way-back machine

[cirov19 1]

I would love to witness something like this and know that hockey is still alive like it was before. Still fast paced and physical but I was born a bit later than this and have barely seen anything like it.

[Inultus 12]

Awesome stuff. And I couldn't tell where you saw Redmond, but Mickey's brother Dick played for the Bruins. Mickey only played for Montreal and the Redwings.

[HomeNugget 2]

anyone else notice mactavish with a helmet on?

[sputman 1,268]

No, it's Dick.

dicky redmond?

[dallas27 7]

I know Eddie Shore would sum up "old time hockey"

[BlueMonk 102]

The funny thing is, in the movie, old-time hockey is a reference to "clean" hockey, without the goonery.

[German Red Wing 0]

As for the time of the fight shown in the video above: April 17, 1980. It is footage from Game Two of the 2nd round playoff series between Long Island and Boston at the Garden. The Isles won that game, 5-4 in OT. The brawl took place just after the end of the 1st period.

Edited March 12, 2008 by German Red Wing