Had the opportunity to hear Stu at a speaking engagement many years ago. He’s a very intelligent individual as well as an amazing speaker. Great job getting him on the show!
What a class act the Grim Reaper is. Great guest for the channel. He sounds like life is treating him well. GOD Bless Mr Crimson, and GOD Bless Mr Nilan
@@therawknucklespodcast 100% true. If you're taking suggestions for guests, look into Randy Holt. I've seen one interview (short) with him and he's very interesting, and candid about his role as an enforcer. Take care, Knux!
These tough guys are usually the nicest guys off the ice and some of the higher paid stars i have found are the very opposite having met a few!...Great interview Knuckles!!
Great shows every time. Love hearing the real stories. You need to get Eric Godard and Jim McKenzie on here. Two of the toughest in their times. Would be great to see Nick Fotiu and Val James who were also the top of their time as well. As far as Grimson fighting smaller guys I would say Rocky Thompson held his own the best against Grimson.
This podcast!. Smiles and grimaces. Had to watch but sometimes it hurt. Knuckles, you are at the point of the spear for bringing out every aspect of The Game. Your channel never fails to move me. I've loved this game for six decades, but you bring out aspects I was only subliminally aware of. This game hurts. But it's a good hurt.
Great episode. Having been a junior hockey player that was NOT a tough guy, I respected those players. They are without a doubt the best human beings alive!!! so humble and REAL people
Another great chat on some great hockey memories. Stu is a big example of not judging one's character by their looks or what they do. Good job by Stu getting his degree seeing the big picture after hockey was done. I enjoyed watching games you were apart of was hoping you were getting a ring in 95. Best of luck to you forward as you go. Thanks again Chris and Tim another great time spent here never not entertained. Cheers boys.😊
Geez. What a great interview. This is such a great podcast. I really enjoyed this one along with Todd Fedoruk, Jay Miller ,Dave Brown and Claude Lemieux interviews. Growing up in the state of Rhode Island . I was always a Montreal fan. Meaning that I did not have a lot of hockey fans as friends. Loved you in Montreal but cheered against you when you were in Boston. You have an awesome podcast. Never thought I would get to see all these players I grew up watching again. Just wondering if you were planning on getting Rob Ray, Ken Baumgartner or Marty McSorley on in the future. Thanks a lot for the entertainment.
Guys like Stu and Ken Baumgartner are amongst the most intelligent hockey players. The stigma that enforcers arent intelligent is ridiculous. Great interview! Sometimes you have to use the skills to pay the bills at a certain time in life. And guys like this is what made the game so special to me. Miss those days.
I really enjoy this podcast. I see some guys here I don’t see anywhere else talking about their time in the League. Not all but a few rarely do interviews and I’ve learned a lot listening to them.
Their were many NHL Champs, Behn Wilson, Dave Brown, Bob Probert, Sandy McCarthy, Tony Twist, George Laraque and Donald Brashear. All these guys beat Probert in fights. Behn Wilson vs Probert was a draw. Probert couldn't beat Behn Wilson. Bob started swinging when the refs intervened in between both fighters on Feb 17,1988. 6 days later on Feb 23,1988 Probert jumped Brown with a cheap shot elbow too Brown's face while Brown was holding his stick. The Gloves dropped with Brown feeding Probert with 4 solid punches. Probert was stunned and quickly grabbed on to Brown's shoulders. Probert was in waltz me around willy mode. Brown smoked him with 2 more punches to Probert's cheek. Bob was cautious and tried a WIMPY HALFER upper cut that hit Brown on his shoulder pad. That upper cut couldn't remash mashed potatoes. 😂 Steve Yzerman's face told the truth. Probert met the real deal NHL heavyweight champ Dave Brown. Probert couldn't earn a win vs Behn Wilson or the champ Brown. Probert never amounted to a bean fart vs those 2 top elite fighters of the 1980's decade. 😮
@@mirandasalinas9412Wow. Put the bong down. You’re high again. Probert smoked Brown like he’d never been smoked. I’ve never seen such a rewriting of facts in all my life. You should go into politics.
I met Stu and Gary Roberts in Greensboro and what great guys. I used to watch Stu in Carolina and he couldn't turn or do crossovers and yet was in the NHL. A tough guy but ECHL player!
@@RIUUI007 Yeah Stu and Gary were great guys. I asked Gary about playing with Nick Fotiu and he started laughing and said Big Nicky what a great guy. I said was he tough and he told of a fight that Nicky had in training camp with a young tough guy who challenged him and Nicky destroyed him. Gary said at that point Nicky had a long fuse and rarely looked to fight but hated getting hit and that was when he would get angry. I laughed and said the old WWF turnbuckle head move and Gary said yes exactly he was so strong that he'd grab a guy behind the neck and slam his head and face into the glass or boards.
When he was in Detroit, Mitch Albom wrote an article in the Freep he titled "The Gentleman Goon". That along with his interviews on local TV and the Wings having him behind the bench in a suit and tie when he was scratched showed his smarts.
I enjoy watching the interviews with the players that you fought such as Jay Miller, dave brown. I can't stomach a flyers game now. When you grow up in the 70's and 80 's it 's no better then figure skaters with sticks. It's controlled by the wrong people now. Keep up the great work sir
another interresting interview you three. another player i learned to see his off ice talk. as fans we do not get to know the players home town yes specially in Mtl it is like a religion in MTL but the rest of the league we do not get to see interviews like on knuckles podcast with Tim again thanks for sharing another good interview. Take care
first time i watch an interview with stu grimson but what a nice guy and so smart !!,the guy became a lawyer after his career... wow,what an acomplishment !!!. its true that tough guys are mostly very nice guys.great interview chris as always...you should have pierre bouchard as a guest chris and jonathan maybe ?? lolol
Wendell Clarke and Rick Tocchet come to mind as guys who were middle weights who fought heavy weights... Two of the toughest guys ever.... Love Stu, great and classy guy and smart guy... Enforcers and tough guys were some of the best guys in hockey, amazing really but it's true.... Guys who always stuck up for teammates... GG
@@tonypacheco2318 No he didn't what? Just last week Tom Laidlaw interviewed Darren Langdon and used to be his agent and they spoke of Langdon's fights and stamina and ability to punch with either hand and Langdon said the one guy who gave me problems was Stu Grimson because he was so big. I shook my head and thought yup remembering that Stu was huge with Langdon and Darren had trouble getting free!
@@jacksmith5692 Absolutely Stu owned Langdon. Look at the video where Stu wraps up his head in his own jersey - while with Hartford. Langdon was one of my favorites, but like all enforcers who had troubles with certain players, Langdon's was Grimson.
@@HockeyFightHistory 100% and to Langdon's credit, he was candid and immediately said Stu Grimson when asked by Laidlaw and Laidlaw oh yeah Big Stu the Grim Reaper and I thought yup that was true. Frankly I went back and watched the four fights again to confirm my memory and have it 1 to 3 for Grimson. I gave Langdon one of the fights on points but it was close and the other 3 I gave to Grimson and twice he was a little unfair getting Langdon's jersey over his head and nailing him with shots! That broke the code in my opinion especially with an honorable fighter like Langdon!
When Stu scowled when he was in a brawl.. To me he was the meanest looking guy in the League. Scary looking as fuck.. But such an amazing, kind, soft spoken Teddy Bear off the ice.
I didn't like Grimson at all as a player (I'll always see him as a BlackHawk, and I was a die hard North Star's fan), but after hearing this, and other interviews with him, I'd love to meet him and have a couple drinks and just talk. Seems like a great guy.
Grimson: One of the scariest guys on the ice, and one of the most classiest and intelligent off the ice. I just hated him beating up so many of my Rangers in the early 90s when he was in Hartford.
Yikes I never saw Stu's Jr and IHL PIMs - man he paid the price to get to the NHL. Then in the NHL every team he played for passed him on to another team every two years. No stability at all.
Ep 27 Grapes come on your show Never mentioned this during his interview. AND Ep 60 you laugh at him getting fired.(Turncoats) Grapes explained it and "walked it back?" There was never a winning lawsuit or you would have sued . The whole point of the movie Gladiators was ANIT FIGHTING and the damage fighting is causing the players. And you guys all contributed to it and are proof positive that fighting has effected the enforcers from the 1980s-2006. Yon know I love the show - but I don't like turncoats like you are here. Grapes made the point (maybe had some names off but you were in the doc) that a bunch of fighter are now anti fighting - which is exactly what the message of Gladiators was and of course they use Probert as the key piece.
Knuckles asks awesome questions - makes the interviews thought-provoking and better than JR and his adolescent bs. Chris needs to branch out from just hockey...
Love your show Mr. Nilan....listen to an episode every time I can. This interview with Grimson is definitely my favorite. Once again, great show. I was a spittin chicklets fan but so happy i found your show.
OK now you are cheering Grapes getting cancelled - I am gonna pass you for now but that is some turncoat BS right there. Grapes wasn't 100% wrong he just attributed it you and Stu.
Stu Grimson is such an eloquent speaker, a real class guy
Very articulate.
He still looks like he could whoop some ass too…
Had the opportunity to hear Stu at a speaking engagement many years ago. He’s a very intelligent individual as well as an amazing speaker. Great job getting him on the show!
What a class act the Grim Reaper is. Great guest for the channel. He sounds like life is treating him well. GOD Bless Mr Crimson, and GOD Bless Mr Nilan
If you like REAL hockey stories from REAL hockey players, thjs is the best podcast out there
Thanks Scotty
@@therawknucklespodcast 100% true. If you're taking suggestions for guests, look into Randy Holt. I've seen one interview (short) with him and he's very interesting, and candid about his role as an enforcer. Take care, Knux!
Best hockey Pod Cast on the net !!
Good to see the Grim Reaper become a lawyer. Great interview Knux and Tim.
These tough guys are usually the nicest guys off the ice and some of the higher paid stars i have found are the very opposite having met a few!...Great interview Knuckles!!
Great shows every time. Love hearing the real stories. You need to get Eric Godard and Jim McKenzie on here. Two of the toughest in their times. Would be great to see Nick Fotiu and Val James who were also the top of their time as well. As far as Grimson fighting smaller guys I would say Rocky Thompson held his own the best against Grimson.
This podcast!. Smiles and grimaces. Had to watch but sometimes it hurt. Knuckles, you are at the point of the spear for bringing out every aspect of The Game. Your channel never fails to move me. I've loved this game for six decades, but you bring out aspects I was only subliminally aware of. This game hurts. But it's a good hurt.
The heavy artillery tough guys seem to always have the most amazing stories 🤘
Great episode. Having been a junior hockey player that was NOT a tough guy, I respected those players. They are without a doubt the best human beings alive!!! so humble and REAL people
Another great chat on some great hockey memories. Stu is a big example of not judging one's character by their looks or what they do. Good job by Stu getting his degree seeing the big picture after hockey was done.
I enjoyed watching games you were apart of was hoping you were getting a ring in 95. Best of luck to you forward as you go. Thanks again Chris and Tim another great time spent here never not entertained. Cheers boys.😊
Can never get enough of Stu. Great interview and another example of how hockey players are the most genuine and engaging of professional athletes.
Geez. What a great interview. This is such a great podcast. I really enjoyed this one along with Todd Fedoruk, Jay Miller ,Dave Brown and Claude Lemieux interviews. Growing up in the state of Rhode Island . I was always a Montreal fan. Meaning that I did not have a lot of hockey fans as friends. Loved you in Montreal but cheered against you when you were in Boston. You have an awesome podcast. Never thought I would get to see all these players I grew up watching again. Just wondering if you were planning on getting Rob Ray, Ken Baumgartner or Marty McSorley on in the future. Thanks a lot for the entertainment.
Thanks Walter, yes, I would I have them on the list of potential guests
@@therawknucklespodcast Awesome. You ROCK brother.
Awesome. Love the podcasts. All the best from Scotland.
Finally got this episode, always great to hear what these retired players are up to these days. Another great ep, well done Chris & Tim !!
Another super show Chris!
Guys like Stu and Ken Baumgartner are amongst the most intelligent hockey players. The stigma that enforcers arent intelligent is ridiculous. Great interview! Sometimes you have to use the skills to pay the bills at a certain time in life. And guys like this is what made the game so special to me. Miss those days.
I really enjoy this podcast. I see some guys here I don’t see anywhere else talking about their time in the League. Not all but a few rarely do interviews and I’ve learned a lot listening to them.
One of the best interviews out there. Wow. Love hearing the viewpoint from these guys.
Sucks not being able to have the NHL Champ on.. RIP Probert!!!!
Their were many NHL Champs, Behn Wilson, Dave Brown, Bob Probert, Sandy McCarthy, Tony Twist, George Laraque and Donald Brashear. All these guys beat Probert in fights. Behn Wilson vs Probert was a draw. Probert couldn't beat Behn Wilson. Bob started swinging when the refs intervened in between both fighters on Feb 17,1988. 6 days later on Feb 23,1988 Probert jumped Brown with a cheap shot elbow too Brown's face while Brown was holding his stick. The Gloves dropped with Brown feeding Probert with 4 solid punches. Probert was stunned and quickly grabbed on to Brown's shoulders. Probert was in waltz me around willy mode. Brown smoked him with 2 more punches to Probert's cheek. Bob was cautious and tried a WIMPY HALFER upper cut that hit Brown on his shoulder pad. That upper cut couldn't remash mashed potatoes. 😂 Steve Yzerman's face told the truth. Probert met the real deal NHL heavyweight champ Dave Brown. Probert couldn't earn a win vs Behn Wilson or the champ Brown. Probert never amounted to a bean fart vs those 2 top elite fighters of the 1980's decade. 😮
Yes I will agree with you that it would of been great to have Bob Probert interviewed by his buddy KNUCKLES NILAN. ❤
@@mirandasalinas9412Wow. Put the bong down. You’re high again. Probert smoked Brown like he’d never been smoked. I’ve never seen such a rewriting of facts in all my life. You should go into politics.
@@stevemineer2857 Please get you're reading glasses upped to +3.50. Bob Probert couldn't win vs Behn Wilson or Dave Brown in the 1980's decade.
@@stevemineer2857 More facts Mr. Magoo, Probert couldn't win vs Craig Berube the Majority of their fights. The Flyers owned ! Probert . 😂
I met Stu and Gary Roberts in Greensboro and what great guys. I used to watch Stu in Carolina and he couldn't turn or do crossovers and yet was in the NHL.
A tough guy but ECHL player!
@@RIUUI007 Yeah Stu and Gary were great guys. I asked Gary about playing with Nick Fotiu and he started laughing and said Big Nicky what a great guy. I said was he tough and he told of a fight that Nicky had in training camp with a young tough guy who challenged him and Nicky destroyed him. Gary said at that point Nicky had a long fuse and rarely looked to fight but hated getting hit and that was when he would get angry.
I laughed and said the old WWF turnbuckle head move and Gary said yes exactly he was so strong that he'd grab a guy behind the neck and slam his head and face into the glass or boards.
GREAT SHOW BOYS
WHAT A GUY THAT GRIM REAPER LOL
KNUCKS WHAT OTHER NHL PLAYER CAME OUT OF U OF M ????
The Grim Reaper coming at ya.
The Grim Reaper😮
Great show guys, thanks for supporting the troops
When he was in Detroit, Mitch Albom wrote an article in the Freep he titled "The Gentleman Goon". That along with his interviews on local TV and the Wings having him behind the bench in a suit and tie when he was scratched showed his smarts.
Chris.... I played house leagues travel hockey, high School hockey college hockey...your podcast is the best! Keep up the good work!1
I enjoy watching the interviews with the players that you fought such as Jay Miller, dave brown. I can't stomach a flyers game now. When you grow up in the 70's and 80 's it 's no better then figure skaters with sticks. It's controlled by the wrong people now. Keep up the great work sir
another interresting interview you three. another player i learned to see his off ice talk. as fans we do not get to know the players home town yes specially in Mtl it is like a religion in MTL but the rest of the league we do not get to see interviews like on knuckles podcast with Tim again thanks for sharing another good interview. Take care
first time i watch an interview with stu grimson but what a nice guy and so smart !!,the guy became a lawyer after his career... wow,what an acomplishment !!!. its true that tough guys are mostly very nice guys.great interview chris as always...you should have pierre bouchard as a guest chris and jonathan maybe ?? lolol
Loved watching stu when I was a kid at the old barn in Chicago. Stu's crew
Wearing your heart on your sleeve........well said
Another great one!
Another great episode!!
Mike Ridley. University of Manitoba. 758 points in 866 games played!!!
Another great interview, Chris and Tim!
PS. Nice steady camera Tim! CHEERS!
😂❤
Try to get Joey Kocur
Or Georges
Wendell Clarke and Rick Tocchet come to mind as guys who were middle weights who fought heavy weights... Two of the toughest guys ever.... Love Stu, great and classy guy and smart guy... Enforcers and tough guys were some of the best guys in hockey, amazing really but it's true.... Guys who always stuck up for teammates... GG
Hey knucks, love the show. Was thinking u should have a show with Rob Ray.
Stapes - everyone has a Mike Keenan story. You guys can edit out of every interview and put together all of the Mike Keenan clips.
Stu has the best hair in hockey
Darren Langdon was a great fighter but Stu was the one guy he had problems with due to the size of Stu against the 6'1" Langdon!
No he didn't...
@@tonypacheco2318 No he didn't what? Just last week Tom Laidlaw interviewed Darren Langdon and used to be his agent and they spoke of Langdon's fights and stamina and ability to punch with either hand and Langdon said the one guy who gave me problems was Stu Grimson because he was so big. I shook my head and thought yup remembering that Stu was huge with Langdon and Darren had trouble getting free!
@@jacksmith5692 Absolutely Stu owned Langdon. Look at the video where Stu wraps up his head in his own jersey - while with Hartford. Langdon was one of my favorites, but like all enforcers who had troubles with certain players, Langdon's was Grimson.
@@HockeyFightHistory 100% and to Langdon's credit, he was candid and immediately said Stu Grimson when asked by Laidlaw and Laidlaw oh yeah Big Stu the Grim Reaper and I thought yup that was true. Frankly I went back and watched the four fights again to confirm my memory and have it 1 to 3 for Grimson. I gave Langdon one of the fights on points but it was close and the other 3 I gave to Grimson and twice he was a little unfair getting Langdon's jersey over his head and nailing him with shots!
That broke the code in my opinion especially with an honorable fighter like Langdon!
When Stu scowled when he was in a brawl.. To me he was the meanest looking guy in the League. Scary looking as fuck.. But such an amazing, kind, soft spoken Teddy Bear off the ice.
I didn't like Grimson at all as a player (I'll always see him as a BlackHawk, and I was a die hard North Star's fan), but after hearing this, and other interviews with him, I'd love to meet him and have a couple drinks and just talk. Seems like a great guy.
Grimson: One of the scariest guys on the ice, and one of the most classiest and intelligent off the ice. I just hated him beating up so many of my Rangers in the early 90s when he was in Hartford.
It's funny that they got Grimson right after Dave Brown. Considering the history of what Brown did to Grimson early in his career.
neat stu was an animal on the ice
Chris and Tim an other great show very interesting person Stu Grimson
Does Chris go down a list of NHL players and give his opinion of their abilities , on any podcast or channel vid?
Oh man, did you have to bring the church into it?
He is right, Brownie did fkg destroy him, that's what happens when you poke the bear Stuey!
Didnt beat Brown that bad in 1st fight
Fight was a draw, Grimson swung a couple times missing as Brown was falling backwards to the ice. Grimson pulled him down off balance.
Yikes I never saw Stu's Jr and IHL PIMs - man he paid the price to get to the NHL. Then in the NHL every team he played for passed him on to another team every two years. No stability at all.
Ep 27 Grapes come on your show Never mentioned this during his interview. AND Ep 60 you laugh at him getting fired.(Turncoats) Grapes explained it and "walked it back?" There was never a winning lawsuit or you would have sued . The whole point of the movie Gladiators was ANIT FIGHTING and the damage fighting is causing the players. And you guys all contributed to it and are proof positive that fighting has effected the enforcers from the 1980s-2006. Yon know I love the show - but I don't like turncoats like you are here. Grapes made the point (maybe had some names off but you were in the doc) that a bunch of fighter are now anti fighting - which is exactly what the message of Gladiators was and of course they use Probert as the key piece.
Knuckles asks awesome questions - makes the interviews thought-provoking and better than JR and his adolescent bs. Chris needs to branch out from just hockey...
Thanks Harry-and ironically, I will be branching out soon, stay tuned!
Love your show Mr. Nilan....listen to an episode every time I can. This interview with Grimson is definitely my favorite. Once again, great show. I was a spittin chicklets fan but so happy i found your show.
Stu's audio is terrible
OK now you are cheering Grapes getting cancelled - I am gonna pass you for now but that is some turncoat BS right there. Grapes wasn't 100% wrong he just attributed it you and Stu.
Why does this guy knuckles talk about himself more than the guest. Can't stand to listen to him! Love his guest.
Why do you watch GFY
"That guy Knuckles" lol. Legendary enforcer, solid hockey player, Stanley Cup winner.... his show. Shit... Need anything else lol?
Worst player 17 goals on 720 games