Lots of these archives were just recorded on low quality VHS, and then rendered with bad quality converters on a computer, then uploaded in a terrible quality in early youtube which was in 360p. The real archives from the TV stations are looking pretty good if the team had enough budget to get it filmed with quality cameras and skilled technicians.
Yeah but that late hit after lindros scored a goal that wasn't dirty at all. No your right stevens wasn't an angel. There was plenty of guy in the league who hit hard and didn't end careers. And then stevens ran and hid from fights why he's a dick you play bug you fight big.
@@socialseahawksfan9325Stevens was the dirtiest of hitters. Blind side on lindros, blind side on Kariya both to the head. Career ending hits to the head are dirty in my book.
@@alfonseklyne9027 Stevens played the game hard and within the rules of his era. He had zero suspensions for hits. And you see him fight a much MUCH bigger Lindros in this very video several times. Stevens had well over 100 career fights. He even fought Probert several times too, who is known as the best NHL fighter of all time. I don't care if you hate Stevens, but lying is useless.
I watched the game when Lindros got injured the last time, Im still happy I saw those games, seeing LeClair Renberg and Lindros. I can say, hey man I saw those games. I live in Sweden and NHL was like wow thats hockey. When Philly vs Detroit, we got it on like one satelite chanel, I took my bicycle and rode ride whatever 20 kilometers just to watch it, My friend who is a Montreal fan btw lett me watch those games, A well was a good time, Sorry for bad english
Lindros and Kariya both had their Hall of fame careers cut short due to head targeting. Current players owe them both a dept of graditude for making the league change its stance on concussions and hits to the head.
There’s a difference between them though Lindros only took one head shot where Kariya took several. Kariya should be in the same category as Sakic and Ron Francis and Jagr. It took several hits to make Kariya slow down.
@@TheRealKingKevin Crosby's had a few concussions over the years, and the biggest difference was, back in the 90s enforcers were still a thing, if you hit a star player.. you'd get the shit beat out of you. Not anymore, that's part of the reason we see more concussions now a days, no enforcers to actually police the players. Even Wayne Gretzky said this exact same thing, he didn't get hit much because he was very well protected. When he went to LA he wanted Marty McSorley as well with his trade. The enforcers need to come back. Crosby has nobody to protect him from getting hit in the head, and he still gets up and plays and plays well.
@ConFlict 19 NHL suspensions is what protects him duh. Back then enforcers did it because if you hit somebody in the head it was acceptable but today nobody will hit you in the head because they be suspended. Crybaby had the softest hit in the history of sports lol
Isn`t that the whole idea.....catch him with his head down... hey don`t they TEACH YOU to keep your head up...........Guess Lindros didn`t get the memo... ..Lindros was and always will be know as a goon that thought he was all that and a bag of chips...He thought he was too good for Quebec N.As for Stevens and lindros fight ..what do you expect 4 inches taller and 40 lbs heavier...
@@stevenmacinnis418 *Lindros was all that & a bag of chips!!! Do you even remember how good he was??? Just cuz he got caught with his head down doesn't take away from how many years he dominated!!! 99% of most NHLers never even get 1 year of domination, show a lil respect, the guy was extremely talented!!!
@@dvo1245 seriously. Lindros was on his way to easily being a top 10 all time player. Him not wanting to go to Quebec, was all to do with the Nordiques owner. Not the fans, city, or team. Marcel Aubut is to blame. Stop being a salty bitch and respect a legendary career.
2 things really played an impact on Lindros. 1) When his brother's career was ended by concussions. Lindros played so differently after that. 2) And of course this hit as you mentioned.
They had a bunch of tough dudes who finished fights rather than start them. The only instigator they had, ironically, was Snow. And he wasn’t about to start nothin with Stevens.
He should have had a *prime* enforcer instead of leaving everything for Lindros to do. Yeah Kevin Dineen and others were tough players in their own right, but always seemed to be on the downslide when they were sent to the Flyers. I'm not a big Philly fan, just watched a lot of their games during this period and I would have done it a bit different if I was Clarke...
I don’t care what people think if Stevens, he is a dirty player. The hit at 1:28 is a great example of it just like the hit on Kariya. The reasons why we remember him as a fierce player is because he is Canadian and he had a reputation as a “great leader” that won Stanly cups. On the contrary, a guy like Darius Kasparaitis is remembered as a cheap shot artist because he isn’t Canadian. This dude should have served time in prison for raping.
Stevens was always a dirty hitter, Lindros never backed down, in fact beat the shit out of Stevens many, many times. Stevens had the Napoleon complex with Lindros being the beast he was.
@@mae0742not really, stevens was forced into retirement by doctors as well. And if you call cutting the career short of a far more talented player with a cheap elbow a ‘win’ it just shows how obsolete stevens career was
@Malte Laurids Brigge you're an idiot if you believe that. That was absolute intentional head targeting. The initial point of contact was lindros's head. Stevens even threw his arm up to make sure he got in a head shot.
@Puckman637 Stevens was better in that era than Lindros? In what aspect? In the couple of times when they dropped the gloves in this video, who looked like they usually got the better of who? You've got one player who is scoring goals and the other is trying to take them out heading into the boards after the puck is already in the back of the net. That just comes off as jealous or bitter or a cheapshot artist. If someone is trying to be an agitator and get him off his game, being 6'4", do you think the team is going to send a goon after them, he had to fight his own battles. He wasn't someone who was just going to skate around headbutting random people either, everybody wanted to poke the bear. Also in that "era" between the 2, one of them hovered around 4th all time in points per game and the other not so much, i'll give you 2 guesses who and the first one doesn't count.
I was a big lindros fan. And I like how Scott Stevens played. By today's rules yes many of Scott's hits would be dirty and illegal. But back then they weren't. You just have to keep your head up. Protect yourself at all times. I hate seeing superstars careers end early. Lemeiux,Lindros,Lafontaine. So many greats gone too soon.
He lost the fight for sure...but a "pretend tough guy"?.. he never backed down from anybody in the league .. you think you would have been able to hold your own out there ?? C'mon buddy- you're on UA-cam
Cuban Assassin Wow you must be very new to the game look up Dave Brown and what he did to arrange a player that ranks in the top five I don’t think Scott Stevens even got a penalty but then again the referees they were just on the ice watching the game check out the Dave Brown hit
Cuban Assassin Thank God Len Ross is so brutal that one solid shot to the skull in his career began to end thank you Scott Stevens thank you Con :-) trophy winner three times Stanley Cup winner Lindros has been nothing to show for his career
Lindros was a beast. Unfortunately his attitude at the draft (which I don’t disagree with), put a target on his back, his whole career. Stevens was a monster, back when monsters played in the NHL. Personally I’ll take Stevens and his three cups on my team any day.
@@blazin1397 lol. Lindros haters are so funny. Anybody that matters knows Lindros was 100x better and had more impact on the history of hockey. But yeah. It's cool being like the 6th best player on a Stanley Cup team too!
@I Got That PMA Exactly, Stevens was far more relevant. Lindros was different due to size and talent, yes, he was talented but lacked speed as did all the flyers. It was clear when they got destroyed by the wings...
@@Andre-he6tp Stevens' only relevance was in the cheap shots he laid in retaliation against the immeasurably more talented players who constantly dangled him out of his jock. Little baby just couldn't handle the skill of the NHL.
I am an Islander fan and living in NY I got to see a lot of Lindros playing all 3 local teams (Isles, Rangers and Devils). He could have been so much more if not for concussions. To me Scott Stevens is the best physical defensemen that I have ever seen. Sorry - he was not dirty to me at all. If your head was down crossing the blue line in a playoff game against the devils you needed to make sure where Scott was when you went over the blue line. Though not in this video (thanks for posting) Stevens did try to take advantage of Lindros with a few extra shoves. I really don't think the video includes it, but I recall a fight where Lindros finally stood up for himself and really put a beating on Stevens.
I believe Brett Lindros' career was ended after only three seasons from concussions. I was watching that Devils/Flyers game on tv. You just felt sick about it. A clean hit but malicious intent. Saw Kariya's, too. Nasty hit.
Kaspy was the first player to get Lindros with a solid concussion causing hit. Unfortunately that hit was so devastating that concussions just started coming more frequently to Lindros following this first big blow. Stevens finished off prob the biggest and toughest and one of the best players in NHL history. I don’t even like Lindros but he came in dominate to the nhl. If not for players wanting to hit him so bad he would’ve prob gone down as one of the sports best. He was a victim of what he created tho.
@BobbyBars14 you gotta think with Lindros' bowling ball play style, concussions were gonna be inevitable. The guy would show up, score a hat trick on you and beat up your enforcer in the same night. Those hits just sped things up. A lot.
People love to hate on Scott Stevens for beating up and stifling their players and teams and being the main reason their teams didn’t win a Stanley Cup but never mention or appreciate that he was under the tutelage of Larry Robinson the Montreal great defenseman in the 70s and 80s who helped the Canadiens win like 6 to 8 Cups back then and Larry is the one who made Stevens great and brought the discipline out of him cause before that Stevens was a hot head loose cannon head with no real goal or direction just hitting bodies left and right 😂
No doubt about it, Stevens was a pos, but an effective one. A bunch of late hits and high ones, BUT at the time those where hockey plays. Nobody cared about the effects it had on players, and I'm pretty sure not that many knew how dangerous they were. Lindros got a lot of shit for being soft when refused to play for having head aches. Thank god the game has changed since then. There's a player here in sweden who hits pretty good. He says that he wants to hurt other players but not wound them. I think that's a good attitude to the game.
I was never a Lindros fan, but absolutely despise Stevens......so it's nice to see Lindros destroy him in a one on one fight. Stevens was one of the dirtiest players in NHL.
Good hit! The only people who think otherwise are the ones that helped turn the NHL into what it is today ....All skill & no guts.... I'd rather watch paint dry.
Lindros and his whole family were crybabies!! They cried when he got drafted by Quebec until the idiots in charge said he didn't have to play there.If I had anything to do with it, he wouldn't be playing at all unless he played for the team that drafted him!!! Also, to those people who think Stevens was a dirty player....Gordie Howe ( MR. Hockey ) was the DIRTIEST player that ever played the game!!
You know what - this actually gave some good context to the dirty hit by Stevens that changed Lindros' career The dirty headbutt by Eric definitely warranted a return cheap shot.. I can't say I blame Scott anymore tbh.. probably an unpopular opinion but war is war - a headbutt is not hockey. Stevens may have had nothing on Lindros physically but he was not to be taken lightly either and given his history of blue line blow up's Eric really should have known better
In the 2001 Finals, karma really bit Stevens. As if it were a sign of how that game would end, Mr. Cheap Shot went to deliver a hit on Rob Blake, only to have Blake send HIM flying to the ice! As a Rangers fan, that was a sweet as it got in those days! I remember Lindros's first game as a Ranger against NJ - that was the night I became a fan of his, when, late in the game, he and Stevens were driving near the boards and Lindros nailed him into the boards with a hard hit! His first bit of payback for that cheap hit that effectively ended his career in Philly.
@@zephyr9031 It wasn't a playoff game, but Manson did destroy Stevens. He deserved it. March 1991 Blackhawks vs Blues at Chicago Stadium. St. Patricks day massacre. Numerous ejections. I was in attendance.
Rangers fan here. Stevens is one of my favorite players of all time. Can’t not like his game when his game consists of shutting down the strongest players in the league and in the fashion he’d do it in..
@schadenfreude7169 Eric ate nearly a metric fuckton of shit in his career, most shit ever eaten in one career by the way look it up, and most of it was shoveled directly into his mouth by Scott Stevens. Who by the way holds the record for most shit fed to opposing players in a career, Lindros being his main customer. It was truly a lopsided exchange most of the time.
Ulf Samuelsson sticks his knee into Cam Neely’s thigh and everyone calls it a cheap shot. Scott Stevens sticks his shoulder into Eric Lindros’ head and people celebrate and say that’s hockey Eric shouldn’t have had his head down. It’s high level hypocrisy at its worst. Stevens was dirtier than Samuelsson.
I agree if this hit happened today it’s easily 5 games for a first time offender. Scott Stevens playing today would have a far worse reputation than a Tom Wilson currently does. Different era for sure but Stevens was praised and made a career out of dirty hits deemed in today’s nhl!!!
Lol...but the headbutt was within the rules right? Eric cheated as well. Funnier when the bigger guys do it and then bitch when it occurs to them...lmmfao!
I have little to no sympathy for how Lindros had to retire or how his career was ended rather short.... He was a victim of his own creation in a way. Tried to be a bully so players targeted him right back. He did lots of dirty shit himself in his career. I loved this time and era in hockey. It’s kinda all speed and talent in today’s game.
I do watch football but sadly candy ass fans like apparently you, like to have opinions on big hits in that sport to. I don’t understand why you watch videos like this? Stick to the Crosby videos I guess. Maybe take in a Disney flick or something.
What a cream puff. You do realize that domestic situations happen to everyone including hockey players? Hockey is a wicked sport and so is football but sadly the cream puff fans like yourself and having to take hits and fights out of sports and than have opinions on another’s personal domestic situation because you read a few things. You are a prime example of the kinda fans that cause this shit.
Even with those debilitating concussions that Lindros suffered, he was twice the player that Stevens was when healthy. And *anyone* who say’s & or think’s any differently in that regard, is a certified numbskull.
Hmm.. Second most games played by a Defenseman in NHL history 1635 Regular Season Games Played 233 Playoff games Played 1126 points including playoffs 8 seasons with more than 50 points, 56 with more than 60, 2 with more than 70 Never had a negative +/- in 22 seasons NHL All Rookie Team 13 x NHL All Star His name is engraved on the Stanley Cup three times Conn Smythe Trophy winner First Ballot Hall of Famer One of the top captains in NHL History One of the hardest hitters in NHL History But yea, he's half the player Lindros was because he absolutely leveled him whenever he decided to skate across the middle of the ice while he stared at his skates.
@everydaycarry1328 Yeah guys like Stevens were a dime a dozen, just draft someone who can't play hockey but was good enough to skate and take people's heads off when they weren't looking.
In all these cases, Stevens' intent was to injure, absolutely no respect for his fellow athlete. I get the game is tough and there may be blood but I'm glad this shit is less common now.
Scott Stevens though ended Lindros's career with the hits he gave him skating with your head down & taking 4 defenders on in the zone by himself. Now if Lindros had done that to Stevens his head would detach. If it was todays game Lindros would be playing for straight 3 decades.
@ag4allgood I totally agree. Bobby Clarke was old school. And Flyers medical team kept clearing him to play. But what I noticed about this video. Almost every hit Lindros gave Stevens it was clean. And he won every single fist fight. Every hit Stevens did was dirty or when Lindros was making a move with head down. In todays game Steven don't make it 2 seasons without being banned. He always altered his body to hit the head. Lindros hit you in your core and still demolished you. Not to mention Lindros could fly man.
Flyers fan here. As dirty as a player that Scott Sevens was (and he's in my top 5...Bob Clarke is #1)...he usually backed-up his actions with his fists, something Clarke never did Just got that elbow up a tad too high for me sometimes.
Stevens, one of the best defenseman to play the game. But he always looks so outmatched in these fights. But I am a bit biased, being a Wings fan I was able to watch the two best in the game.
To all the people calling this a dirty blind side hit…first off all the only blind side hit one can make is one from behind. You dont hold back a hit if the guy doesn’t have his head on a swivel. This is not tennis, children. No.1 rule when kids begin playing contact hockey--keep the head up, and keep it on a swivel. If you watch an NHL game more closely, you can see the players rapidly swiveling their heads back and forth to keep their situational awareness on point. Using the strong side D as a screen for the weak side D to cross over for a-hopefully-unsuspected hit is a basic tactic that we see all over the place. Anytime you can legally hit a player even though he doesn’t see it coming is not a dirty thing….ITS THE THING YOU WANT TO DO MOST! I say again, this is not tennis. If a player who is taller than everyone else like Lindros decides to cut to the middle, turning downhill, meaning his leg joints all flex, which is what you do in order to explode out of your turn, and this necessarily lowers the level of the head, it would be hard at the speed of the game for a D man who’s timing shoulder to chest contact to stop and hold back at that point. Remember it’s easy to make false judgements when you get to watch over and over again in slow motion. But at the speed of things in game, the human mind just can’t get the body to act that fast. What Im saying is that I dont think Steven’s was thinking head hit right from the start. Now does that mean that he wasn’t ok with making head contact when it occurred? Possibly not. But we can’t call this an intentional head shot because Steven’s would have had to begin his run at Lindros at a moment when his head was not that low. His head lowers as he turns. But to place some of the onus on Lindros, I mean he is turning downhill with the puck into a pocket of three Jersey players. I mean common. You have to have better awareness than that. You can never count on opposing players to protect you. You have to learn the skills to protect yourself. Lindros obviously does have those skills, but just used them in effectively in this particular scenario. Look how the idiot Steve Moore who literally ran into Markus Naslunds head. NO penalty called, as Naslund had - again - lowered his head level at the worst moment.
Reply to this comment with other player or team rivalries you’d like me to make a video on.
Pittsburg and Philly had some heated and viscous games and rivalries.
Shannon Wilson I’m thinking about doing an 80s Calgary Edmonton Video next but I may do that after
80’s battle of Alberta
Early 2000 Canucks vs blues
Will you do a best of getting a new stick after having a broken stick or players giving up their stick to a teammate with no stick.
You should do one with Jeremy Roanik sorry for the spelling and Darian Hatcher.
why do WWII videos have better quality than all the 90's NHL stuff?
LOL, I am 49 years old and remember watching these games and have wondered that many times- the quality is terrible.
Lots of these archives were just recorded on low quality VHS, and then rendered with bad quality converters on a computer, then uploaded in a terrible quality in early youtube which was in 360p. The real archives from the TV stations are looking pretty good if the team had enough budget to get it filmed with quality cameras and skilled technicians.
Hhahh. I was thinking the same thing!
Right i was watching clips from 2005 and it looks like it’s from 95 lol
One was on film the other on videotape.
Funny how no one remembers Lindros's head butt until they watch this video they'll never see.
So true, too many people saw him as a helpless victim of a dirty scott Steven's when Steven's was one of the cleanest big hitters in the game.
Yeah but that late hit after lindros scored a goal that wasn't dirty at all. No your right stevens wasn't an angel. There was plenty of guy in the league who hit hard and didn't end careers. And then stevens ran and hid from fights why he's a dick you play bug you fight big.
@@alfonseklyne9027 you're a sorry beotch 🤪😂🤡🤦🏻♂️
@@socialseahawksfan9325Stevens was the dirtiest of hitters. Blind side on lindros, blind side on Kariya both to the head. Career ending hits to the head are dirty in my book.
@@alfonseklyne9027 Stevens played the game hard and within the rules of his era. He had zero suspensions for hits. And you see him fight a much MUCH bigger Lindros in this very video several times. Stevens had well over 100 career fights. He even fought Probert several times too, who is known as the best NHL fighter of all time. I don't care if you hate Stevens, but lying is useless.
I watched the game when Lindros got injured the last time, Im still happy I saw those games, seeing LeClair Renberg and Lindros. I can say, hey man I saw those games. I live in Sweden and NHL was like wow thats hockey. When Philly vs Detroit, we got it on like one satelite chanel, I took my bicycle and rode ride whatever 20 kilometers just to watch it, My friend who is a Montreal fan btw lett me watch those games, A well was a good time, Sorry for bad english
I know he got injured vs Devils, just told my story ok :)
Don't worry, hockey English is always perfect English!
Cheers
Your English is very good
Man lindross was awesome back in 93 l, a big guy moving like that! I see why people loved him
First thing we were taught in Youth hockey, always have your head up!
You can have you head up and still get hits dirty like Lindros was. Stevens should be in jail.
Sounds like you were also concussed at some point then
Bad elbow as well !
@@ryzenforcehahaha ur funny I like you buddy
When you're 6'5 there is no need to...
Anyone who has ever taken a hard hit to the head knows about the pounding headache and nausea (among other things) that happen afterwards.
Yep.
Got shouldered in the jaw with my head down, felt like my chin was on the side of my face lol
Lindros and Kariya both had their Hall of fame careers cut short due to head targeting. Current players owe them both a dept of graditude for making the league change its stance on concussions and hits to the head.
Or just teach kids to keep their heads up and protect themselves.
There’s a difference between them though Lindros only took one head shot where Kariya took several. Kariya should be in the same category as Sakic and Ron Francis and Jagr. It took several hits to make Kariya slow down.
nevertweet015 crybaby Crosby got a little love tap on the head and was out 10 months with a concussion. The softest concussion in all sports history.
@@TheRealKingKevin Crosby's had a few concussions over the years, and the biggest difference was, back in the 90s enforcers were still a thing, if you hit a star player.. you'd get the shit beat out of you. Not anymore, that's part of the reason we see more concussions now a days, no enforcers to actually police the players. Even Wayne Gretzky said this exact same thing, he didn't get hit much because he was very well protected. When he went to LA he wanted Marty McSorley as well with his trade. The enforcers need to come back. Crosby has nobody to protect him from getting hit in the head, and he still gets up and plays and plays well.
@ConFlict 19 NHL suspensions is what protects him duh. Back then enforcers did it because if you hit somebody in the head it was acceptable but today nobody will hit you in the head because they be suspended. Crybaby had the softest hit in the history of sports lol
Lindros: well on his way to a 1000 point career.
Stevens: 4:35
lindross won most of their battles but payed the ultinate price in the end and lost the war
Because Steven's knew he couldn't beat lindros so looked for the cheap shot way
True fucking story.. no open ice hits.. have shut down so many great careers
Stevens was a dirty cheap shot! Lindros punked Stevens at every turn.
That wasn't "a hit by Steven's" (2:00) after the goal, it was a crosscheck!
A high one, to be exact. Stevens was a POS, but I love how everyone in here is trying to re-write history.
No shit
he pushed him while his hands were on his stick. go watch soccer
@@MrTedMcForehead exactly. Lindross trips Marty and headbutts stevens. He dirty too?
@@trashpanda5379 Oh, Lindros was dirty as fuck. That's why I liked him. Mr Hockey was pretty damn dirty too, and is my all-time favorite player.
Flying headbut was cool
People often remember that one hit by # 4, but these two had staric going on long before that.
Still a better love story then twilight
Twilight smelled better though...
he did not appreciate the helmet headbutt
Cheap shot by Stevens after Kinsey's goal at 2:00
a push?
Stevens always dirty
Basically Stevens gets ragdolled by Lindros unless he catches Lindros with his head down. Straight up, man to man he gets pummeled.
Isn`t that the whole idea.....catch him with his head down... hey don`t they TEACH YOU to keep your head up...........Guess Lindros didn`t get the memo... ..Lindros was and always will be know as a goon that thought he was all that and a bag of chips...He thought he was too good for Quebec N.As for Stevens and lindros fight ..what do you expect 4 inches taller and 40 lbs heavier...
Lindros had it coming. He got finally got him.
@@stevenmacinnis418 *Lindros was all that & a bag of chips!!! Do you even remember how good he was??? Just cuz he got caught with his head down doesn't take away from how many years he dominated!!! 99% of most NHLers never even get 1 year of domination, show a lil respect, the guy was extremely talented!!!
@@dvo1245 seriously. Lindros was on his way to easily being a top 10 all time player. Him not wanting to go to Quebec, was all to do with the Nordiques owner. Not the fans, city, or team. Marcel Aubut is to blame. Stop being a salty bitch and respect a legendary career.
@@goskateminnesota7256 Wrong, he was too slow, it was going to catch up. He isnt even top 30
Eric was NEVER the same after that hit by Stevens.
2 things really played an impact on Lindros. 1) When his brother's career was ended by concussions. Lindros played so differently after that. 2) And of course this hit as you mentioned.
Neither was Kozlov !!
He was already on the downward spiral after he got his bell rung by Darius Kasparitis a few years earlier.
На каждого Линдроса есть свой Каспарайтис ))
If Lindros played today 2020 it be nutzzzzz!!!! He changed the game in so many ways.
He would still get crushed today because there is still checking in hockey and he is an idiot who never learns.
@Steve Miller everyone has their weakness. The hits on him are up for debate on the legality. 🧐
@@monztermovies
They wouldn't have been legal today, but they were back then.
He would still skate with his head down, and eventually get run over. He played his whole career like that.
@@monztermovies BS if you lead with your face...
Lol that headbutt was hilarious. I was born the same year that happened, so i hadnt seen it till now. The tv stations never showed that one.
The sad thing is his team didn't get Stevens for the hit. They were the broad street ladies when Lindros played there
I totally agree. Bob Clarke did nothing to help him from taking any shots. There was no retaliation for it
They had a bunch of tough dudes who finished fights rather than start them. The only instigator they had, ironically, was Snow. And he wasn’t about to start nothin with Stevens.
It’s cause Lindros was a dick.
He should have had a *prime* enforcer instead of leaving everything for Lindros to do. Yeah Kevin Dineen and others were tough players in their own right, but always seemed to be on the downslide when they were sent to the Flyers. I'm not a big Philly fan, just watched a lot of their games during this period and I would have done it a bit different if I was Clarke...
I don’t care what people think if Stevens, he is a dirty player. The hit at 1:28 is a great example of it just like the hit on Kariya. The reasons why we remember him as a fierce player is because he is Canadian and he had a reputation as a “great leader” that won Stanly cups. On the contrary, a guy like Darius Kasparaitis is remembered as a cheap shot artist because he isn’t Canadian. This dude should have served time in prison for raping.
Just cause it was a little bit of a late hit?
@@trashpanda5379 When you do it consistently? Yes!
@@kazuoishi9339 this is hockey brother
@@trashpanda5379 good observation.
I agree, stevens was absolute garbage and should have been taken out. Was a total disgrace to the league and the game!
Lindros was awesome and is in the Hockey Hall of Fame ... NHL
I really wish it was Lindros that ended Steven’s career instead of Steven’s pretty much career being Lindros. Kariya career was cut short too
Waaaannnnh 😢😂
Stevens was always a dirty hitter, Lindros never backed down, in fact beat the shit out of Stevens many, many times. Stevens had the Napoleon complex with Lindros being the beast he was.
Steven's won in the end.
Stevens wasn't a dirty hitter, it was a different game then with different rules
@@mae0742not really, stevens was forced into retirement by doctors as well. And if you call cutting the career short of a far more talented player with a cheap elbow a ‘win’ it just shows how obsolete stevens career was
@@CornbreadEarlleven then he was considered a cheap shot artist. Just shows how dirty he really was considered even then
How many Cups you got Eric??????
20 game suspension in today's NHL
@Malte Laurids Brigge you're an idiot if you believe that. That was absolute intentional head targeting. The initial point of contact was lindros's head. Stevens even threw his arm up to make sure he got in a head shot.
@Malte Laurids Brigge shut the fuck up. How is an elbow to the face clean?
How often do you see the top goal scorer on the team fighting like that ! Lindrossss
Messier
Gordie Howe
Eric was a beast when he was healthy
Was a beast til he got his bell rung
Stevens was the beast
The whole 9 games of his career
He was always hurt
You mean when he was on steroids 1:26 🤣🤯 EMOTIONAL DAMAGE 🤯🤣
It's the speed and momentum that cause damage along with contact even if it is ever so slight.
Anddd another dirty hit by Stevens @1:30
Cheap shot king
Dirty?...LOL.....want to see dirty...play at 3:18.
@@motorhead25paybacks are a bitch
That shoulder to the head was the nail in the coffin for Lindross.
looks like lindros had the edge in the fights so he won those battles, but lost the war
Yeah lost the war because of a dirty hit. Stevens was great KOing people with elbows
@@figo7ronaldo Exactly. I saw it, too: that was also the elbow involved. So: must have been 2 mins for sure.
figo7ronaldo did you see lindros headbutt stevens?
Puckman637 played it better doesn’t mean playing it cheap
@Puckman637 Stevens was better in that era than Lindros? In what aspect? In the couple of times when they dropped the gloves in this video, who looked like they usually got the better of who? You've got one player who is scoring goals and the other is trying to take them out heading into the boards after the puck is already in the back of the net. That just comes off as jealous or bitter or a cheapshot artist. If someone is trying to be an agitator and get him off his game, being 6'4", do you think the team is going to send a goon after them, he had to fight his own battles. He wasn't someone who was just going to skate around headbutting random people either, everybody wanted to poke the bear. Also in that "era" between the 2, one of them hovered around 4th all time in points per game and the other not so much, i'll give you 2 guesses who and the first one doesn't count.
eric lindros the most dangerous player ever, and what great talent
Amazing how many amazing players careers have been ended by unnecessary injury’s
I was a big lindros fan. And I like how Scott Stevens played. By today's rules yes many of Scott's hits would be dirty and illegal. But back then they weren't. You just have to keep your head up. Protect yourself at all times. I hate seeing superstars careers end early. Lemeiux,Lindros,Lafontaine. So many greats gone too soon.
Indeed. Add Kariya and Marc Savard to that list.
The guy was a predator he must have got slapped around a bit when he's a kid. What he did to Kariya
Despicable.
May have not been dirty then but don’t forget he was considered a cheap shot artist even in those standards
Love seeing Stevens eat those fists in the first clip. Good times.
When they actually dropped gloves and fought Stevens got his ass beat up! Stevens always picked his spots he was a pretend tough guy
He lost the fight for sure...but a "pretend tough guy"?.. he never backed down from anybody in the league .. you think you would have been able to hold your own out there ??
C'mon buddy- you're on UA-cam
Buddy shut your damn mouth the guy never shied away from anybody. He’s light years tougher than you’ll ever be you keyboard warrior!
And I will PRETEND I didn't read that u idiot. Stevens was as tough as they came
And he ended Lindros' career
@Last chance Cowboy yeah but he was a dirtbag on the ice
Coming through with your head down . Scotty just licking his lips. Love it . Eric played the same game in Oshawa . Welcome to the big time
Moron lindros was convinced NHL would be like OHL 😂
To be fare lindros was one dirty player
Always nice to see Stevens get his ass kicked !
I do believe he had the last laughs, some rings, and annihilated Lindros.
Always nice to see Stevens lay out Lindros!
@@ScoDucks24 Ehhhh not really
@@ScoDucks24 no it isn't. Stevens is a douchebag. Fortunately the NHL Doesn't have those kinda players anymore.
Thank god stevens finally waited for lindros to lower his head... Otherwise stevens would still be getting crushed!
man...as a devils and a Scott Stevens fan... I feel bad for lindros... that was a nasty hit
So do I as a Capitals fan who loves Scott Stevens and all those guys from the late 1980s in high school. (That cheapshot was wrong!)
Ahhhh man, this is just the best, all you're missing is some romantic classical music playing in the background lol
Steven's gets pummeled 20 times...the only way for him to to win 1 was probably the dirtiest hit of all time.
You must not realize what you're talking about if 1) You think that last hit is dirty. And 2) if you think that's the dirtiest of all time.
Cuban Assassin Wow you must be very new to the game look up Dave Brown and what he did to arrange a player that ranks in the top five I don’t think Scott Stevens even got a penalty but then again the referees they were just on the ice watching the game check out the Dave Brown hit
Yeah it was a good one wasn't it? Knocked the shit right out of him, lol!!
a suicide pass was Lindros's downfall watch the vid again...
Cuban Assassin Thank God Len Ross is so brutal that one solid shot to the skull in his career began to end thank you Scott Stevens thank you Con :-) trophy winner three times Stanley Cup winner Lindros has been nothing to show for his career
Lindros still looking for a number of that train....
Now the cheap shot Stevens laid on Lindros makes sense,only way Stevens could beat him,he was a headhunter pos
Stevens when you compare careers was so above what Eric Lindross did and they both retired for the same reason
Nothing cheap about it
Well Scott Stevens won 2 Cups, and Lindros told Qubec to stick it. Carma is a bitch. Sorry 3 Cups
Wasnt a cheap shot at all keep your head up
I guess you missed the part of the clip where Lindros drilled Stevens in the face with the top of his helmet. 3:20
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Lindros was a beast. Unfortunately his attitude at the draft (which I don’t disagree with), put a target on his back, his whole career. Stevens was a monster, back when monsters played in the NHL. Personally I’ll take Stevens and his three cups on my team any day.
Lindros is a POS and he got what he fully deserved, thanks to Scott Stevens. POS Lindros refused to be a Quebec Nordique.
headshot king stevens got headshotted himself about 20 times in first fight
Love to see it
one of em’s got rings and actually had a career that mattered
@@blazin1397 lol. Lindros haters are so funny. Anybody that matters knows Lindros was 100x better and had more impact on the history of hockey. But yeah. It's cool being like the 6th best player on a Stanley Cup team too!
@I Got That PMA Exactly, Stevens was far more relevant. Lindros was different due to size and talent, yes, he was talented but lacked speed as did all the flyers. It was clear when they got destroyed by the wings...
@@Andre-he6tp Stevens' only relevance was in the cheap shots he laid in retaliation against the immeasurably more talented players who constantly dangled him out of his jock. Little baby just couldn't handle the skill of the NHL.
Lindros owned Scott Stevens until that one hit. Stevens was a late hitter.
Moron lindros was convinced NHL would be like OHL 😂
I am an Islander fan and living in NY I got to see a lot of Lindros playing all 3 local teams (Isles, Rangers and Devils). He could have been so much more if not for concussions. To me Scott Stevens is the best physical defensemen that I have ever seen. Sorry - he was not dirty to me at all. If your head was down crossing the blue line in a playoff game against the devils you needed to make sure where Scott was when you went over the blue line. Though not in this video (thanks for posting) Stevens did try to take advantage of Lindros with a few extra shoves. I really don't think the video includes it, but I recall a fight where Lindros finally stood up for himself and really put a beating on Stevens.
Sorry, that was a check to the head, today, Stevens would have been given 5 and a game, and probably a few games.
@@mikehenningsen8796 I agree that if this took place today there would be a suspension - but not the case back then.
He was dirty.
Stevens made Lindros his bitch
Google "Piece of Shit" and you will get a picture of scott stevens.
in the end, Stevens ended Lindros' career.
I believe Brett Lindros' career was ended after only three seasons from concussions. I was watching that Devils/Flyers game on tv. You just felt sick about it. A clean hit but malicious intent.
Saw Kariya's, too. Nasty hit.
...and Kozlov!
Stevens was a psycho. He ended careers.
That hit in 2000 is why half of lindros' brain is liquid mush.
Kaspy was the first player to get Lindros with a solid concussion causing hit. Unfortunately that hit was so devastating that concussions just started coming more frequently to Lindros following this first big blow. Stevens finished off prob the biggest and toughest and one of the best players in NHL history. I don’t even like Lindros but he came in dominate to the nhl. If not for players wanting to hit him so bad he would’ve prob gone down as one of the sports best. He was a victim of what he created tho.
@BobbyBars14 you gotta think with Lindros' bowling ball play style, concussions were gonna be inevitable. The guy would show up, score a hat trick on you and beat up your enforcer in the same night.
Those hits just sped things up. A lot.
People love to hate on Scott Stevens for beating up and stifling their players and teams and being the main reason their teams didn’t win a Stanley Cup but never mention or appreciate that he was under the tutelage of Larry Robinson the Montreal great defenseman in the 70s and 80s who helped the Canadiens win like 6 to 8 Cups back then and Larry is the one who made Stevens great and brought the discipline out of him cause before that Stevens was a hot head loose cannon head with no real goal or direction just hitting bodies left and right 😂
Stevens ended Lindros's career.
Lindross ended his own career by fucking teammate Rick Tocchets wife
@@ghophuckurselves3562 uh oh!! Is that true???😲😲😲
@@ghophuckurselves3562 I thought that was Rod Brind’amour??
@@ghophuckurselves3562 That sounds like one of the urban legends
Steven's was filthy
No doubt about it, Stevens was a pos, but an effective one.
A bunch of late hits and high ones, BUT at the time those where hockey plays. Nobody cared about the effects it had on players, and I'm pretty sure not that many knew how dangerous they were.
Lindros got a lot of shit for being soft when refused to play for having head aches.
Thank god the game has changed since then.
There's a player here in sweden who hits pretty good. He says that he wants to hurt other players but not wound them. I think that's a good attitude to the game.
Lindros and his era of Flyers was the most fascinating team to watch. Ever.
That is one of the funniest comments ever.
No Stanley Cups during that era!
If you liked routing for a flash on the pan. Lindros nothing more than a 1 hit wonder .
Stevens was pretty tough when the other guy wasn’t looking.
Moron lindros was convinced NHL would be like OHL 😂
Scotty got the last laugh
not really......he is still an overrated pos
@@jerryvansickle8663
He's a pos with 3 cup rings. ;)
30 years ago.. jeez. Where did they go?
I was never a Lindros fan, but absolutely despise Stevens......so it's nice to see Lindros destroy him in a one on one fight. Stevens was one of the dirtiest players in NHL.
Good hit! The only people who think otherwise are the ones that helped turn the NHL into what it is today ....All skill & no guts.... I'd rather watch paint dry.
Further proof that the last hit was an intentional premeditated head shot. Stevens was overmatched for the most part.
DamThatRiver85 hahahaha Stevens wins
@@iron60bitch62 Right? He wins in all areas minus fighting... last laugh and rings.
Lindros was his own enforcer
Fk the Flyers but, Lindros and Leclair made life hell for the rest of the Patrick Division.
Stevens is one of thr dirtiest players ever
no he isnt
Claude Lemieux
💯 filthy
wah wah wah
Filthy..
Lindros and his whole family were crybabies!! They cried when he got drafted by Quebec until the idiots in charge said he didn't have to play there.If I had anything to do with it, he wouldn't be playing at all unless he played for the team that drafted him!!! Also, to those people who think Stevens was a dirty player....Gordie Howe ( MR. Hockey ) was the DIRTIEST player that ever played the game!!
When Lindros was fighting Stevens he wasent even fighting his hardest or he would have killed Stevens
Walter Costa 6’5” Lindros vs 6’1” Stevens you do the math
ozzy eMate he cheap shotted his whole career and was only useful to end people’s careers, what the hell is your point
either way they were both incredible hockey players
Doubtful, Stevens destroyed the broad street bully
@@sturrrdy Are you saying Lindros was an incredible player? Barely above average at best.How he got into the HOF is mind-boggling.
Stevens came back with Karma in the playoffs
You know what - this actually gave some good context to the dirty hit by Stevens that changed Lindros' career
The dirty headbutt by Eric definitely warranted a return cheap shot..
I can't say I blame Scott anymore tbh.. probably an unpopular opinion but war is war - a headbutt is not hockey.
Stevens may have had nothing on Lindros physically but he was not to be taken lightly either and given his history of blue line blow up's Eric really should have known better
Good clips !!!!
Stephens could throw good hits . But couldn't fight.
Stevens was a piece of shit
In the 2001 Finals, karma really bit Stevens. As if it were a sign of how that game would end, Mr. Cheap Shot went to deliver a hit on Rob Blake, only to have Blake send HIM flying to the ice! As a Rangers fan, that was a sweet as it got in those days!
I remember Lindros's first game as a Ranger against NJ - that was the night I became a fan of his, when, late in the game, he and Stevens were driving near the boards and Lindros nailed him into the boards with a hard hit! His first bit of payback for that cheap hit that effectively ended his career in Philly.
@@zephyr9031 It wasn't a playoff game, but Manson did destroy Stevens. He deserved it. March 1991 Blackhawks vs Blues at Chicago Stadium. St. Patricks day massacre. Numerous ejections. I was in attendance.
Rangers fan here. Stevens is one of my favorite players of all time. Can’t not like his game when his game consists of shutting down the strongest players in the league and in the fashion he’d do it in..
@schadenfreude7169 Eric ate nearly a metric fuckton of shit in his career, most shit ever eaten in one career by the way look it up, and most of it was shoveled directly into his mouth by Scott Stevens. Who by the way holds the record for most shit fed to opposing players in a career, Lindros being his main customer. It was truly a lopsided exchange most of the time.
@schadenfreude7169Moron lindros was convinced NHL would be like OHL 😂
Ulf Samuelsson sticks his knee into Cam Neely’s thigh and everyone calls it a cheap shot. Scott Stevens sticks his shoulder into Eric Lindros’ head and people celebrate and say that’s hockey Eric shouldn’t have had his head down. It’s high level hypocrisy at its worst. Stevens was dirtier than Samuelsson.
I agree if this hit happened today it’s easily 5 games for a first time offender. Scott Stevens playing today would have a far worse reputation than a Tom Wilson currently does. Different era for sure but Stevens was praised and made a career out of dirty hits deemed in today’s nhl!!!
Lol...but the headbutt was within the rules right? Eric cheated as well. Funnier when the bigger guys do it and then bitch when it occurs to them...lmmfao!
I have little to no sympathy for how Lindros had to retire or how his career was ended rather short.... He was a victim of his own creation in a way. Tried to be a bully so players targeted him right back. He did lots of dirty shit himself in his career. I loved this time and era in hockey. It’s kinda all speed and talent in today’s game.
I do watch football but sadly candy ass fans like apparently you, like to have opinions on big hits in that sport to. I don’t understand why you watch videos like this? Stick to the Crosby videos I guess. Maybe take in a Disney flick or something.
What a cream puff. You do realize that domestic situations happen to everyone including hockey players? Hockey is a wicked sport and so is football but sadly the cream puff fans like yourself and having to take hits and fights out of sports and than have opinions on another’s personal domestic situation because you read a few things. You are a prime example of the kinda fans that cause this shit.
I remember this so well you just knew one of them was going to go down. And well it was unfortunately lindros.
Lindros had frosted tips, no wonder he couldn't take a hit.
Didn't they fight one more time after the 5/26/00 hit or am I remembering it wrong?
Even with those debilitating concussions that Lindros suffered, he was twice the player that Stevens was when healthy. And *anyone* who say’s & or think’s any differently in that regard, is a certified numbskull.
We’ll let the Stanley cups do the talking there
@@kendrickmaeldun - didnt know individual players won cups
dumb response
Hmm..
Second most games played by a Defenseman in NHL history
1635 Regular Season Games Played
233 Playoff games Played
1126 points including playoffs
8 seasons with more than 50 points, 56 with more than 60, 2 with more than 70
Never had a negative +/- in 22 seasons
NHL All Rookie Team
13 x NHL All Star
His name is engraved on the Stanley Cup three times
Conn Smythe Trophy winner
First Ballot Hall of Famer
One of the top captains in NHL History
One of the hardest hitters in NHL History
But yea, he's half the player Lindros was because he absolutely leveled him whenever he decided to skate across the middle of the ice while he stared at his skates.
Stevens as a defenceman finished with more points in the regular season and playoffs. Lindros's ego ended his own career.
Poor little Stevens, I guess he couldn't blindside Lindros in the head from behind like he did to everyone else in the league.
Stevens is trash
He blindsided him from the front instead
@everydaycarry1328 Yeah guys like Stevens were a dime a dozen, just draft someone who can't play hockey but was good enough to skate and take people's heads off when they weren't looking.
908 points and +395 career. Won the Conne Smythe in 2000. His defensive awareness was generational
@dylanobrien4617 He turned into a cheap shot artist at the end of his career.
.....can the REAL Jay Mackey fix the piss-poor audio ? ....if you need help or information on what to do email
"I'm about to end this man's whole career"
- Scott Stevens
Enforcers would help but fights lead to concussions too. RIP Bob P.
Stevens start the fight then holds on for dear life
Lindros is a wimp for starting crap with smaller players . He got what he deserved.
lindros was bigger than stevens and could score. stevens didnt like that and made sure he knew it throughout their careers
@@Regurgitator85 lindros fought every tough guy in the league what the fuck you talking about?
They played in August in 1993?
But Steven’s ended lindros career lmfao
In all these cases, Stevens' intent was to injure, absolutely no respect for his fellow athlete. I get the game is tough and there may be blood but I'm glad this shit is less common now.
Shoulder my ass it’s elbow
Lindros put an absolute beating on Stevens when they fought in 93. Crazy how he could manhandle such strong guys like Stevens and Chris Simon
He was only like 20 at the time, too. What an athlete
Scott Stevens though ended Lindros's career with the hits he gave him skating with your head down & taking 4 defenders on in the zone by himself. Now if Lindros had done that to Stevens his head would detach. If it was todays game Lindros would be playing for straight 3 decades.
@ag4allgood I totally agree. Bobby Clarke was old school. And Flyers medical team kept clearing him to play. But what I noticed about this video. Almost every hit Lindros gave Stevens it was clean. And he won every single fist fight. Every hit Stevens did was dirty or when Lindros was making a move with head down. In todays game Steven don't make it 2 seasons without being banned. He always altered his body to hit the head. Lindros hit you in your core and still demolished you. Not to mention Lindros could fly man.
I remember Eric coming out of high school , don’t think he could of possibly lived up to the hype.
you know him?
Well thank his narcissistic parents for that! Lindros was a bot 🤖 that’s why he never won anything! Just big for no reason
Flyers fan here. As dirty as a player that Scott Sevens was (and he's in my top 5...Bob Clarke is #1)...he usually backed-up his actions with his fists, something Clarke never did Just got that elbow up a tad too high for me sometimes.
1:54 Cheap shot Stevens - a sign of things to come.
Stevens is a joke compared to Lindros
Stevens, one of the best defenseman to play the game. But he always looks so outmatched in these fights. But I am a bit biased, being a Wings fan I was able to watch the two best in the game.
He wasn't a fighter really. He'd fight and answer the bell but hitting was his foretaste.
Every one of my hockey coaches from mites until midgets: “Keep your head on a swivel!”
I remember back in the day, In the kids league, the team from Hershy Pennsylvania were called the Squirts. Absolutely true.
To all the people calling this a dirty blind side hit…first off all the only blind side hit one can make is one from behind. You dont hold back a hit if the guy doesn’t have his head on a swivel. This is not tennis, children.
No.1 rule when kids begin playing contact hockey--keep the head up, and keep it on a swivel. If you watch an NHL game more closely, you can see the players rapidly swiveling their heads back and forth to keep their situational awareness on point.
Using the strong side D as a screen for the weak side D to cross over for a-hopefully-unsuspected hit is a basic tactic that we see all over the place. Anytime you can legally hit a player even though he doesn’t see it coming is not a dirty thing….ITS THE THING YOU WANT TO DO MOST! I say again, this is not tennis.
If a player who is taller than everyone else like Lindros decides to cut to the middle, turning downhill, meaning his leg joints all flex, which is what you do in order to explode out of your turn, and this necessarily lowers the level of the head, it would be hard at the speed of the game for a D man who’s timing shoulder to chest contact to stop and hold back at that point. Remember it’s easy to make false judgements when you get to watch over and over again in slow motion. But at the speed of things in game, the human mind just can’t get the body to act that fast.
What Im saying is that I dont think Steven’s was thinking head hit right from the start. Now does that mean that he wasn’t ok with making head contact when it occurred? Possibly not. But we can’t call this an intentional head shot because Steven’s would have had to begin his run at Lindros at a moment when his head was not that low. His head lowers as he turns.
But to place some of the onus on Lindros, I mean he is turning downhill with the puck into a pocket of three Jersey players. I mean common. You have to have better awareness than that. You can never count on opposing players to protect you. You have to learn the skills to protect yourself. Lindros obviously does have those skills, but just used them in effectively in this particular scenario.
Look how the idiot Steve Moore who literally ran into Markus Naslunds head. NO penalty called, as Naslund had - again - lowered his head level at the worst moment.
Lindros is still a much better player then Stevens in all aspects of the game