The Bruins-Canadiens beef featured a police investigation, death threats, and brawl after brawl
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- The Bruins and Canadiens have created a rivalry that’s full of tradition and blood and Stanley Cups. But rivalry and beef are two different things. One can help propel the other, sure, it's just that beef requires a special group of players seeing way too much of each other. That's exactly what happened in the late aughts and became its beefiest self from 2010 to 2014.
A star-studded cast was headlined by P.K. Subban, Zdeno Chara, Max Pacioretty, Brad Marchand, Milan Lucic, and eventually Alexei Emelin. They met often as long-time division rivals, then more often thanks to the playoffs. A hit wasn't just a hit between these teams. It was a piece being stacked on what would become a tower of beef.
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BLESSED BEEF DAY TO YOU! I know there is a ton to this rivalry that didn't make the video, I would've loved to have gotten it all in there but we gotta save something for whenever Netflix comes calling. If you have beeves you want to see, comment down below. Subscribe, hit the bell, you know the drill.
Can you please make a beef history about AL DAVIS VS MARCUS ALLEN
Do a deep rewind on the OJ trial
Or
A deep rewind in the 2006 Miami v FIU brawl
Woody Hayes vs. Bo Schembechler
49ers vs Seahawks
Do the Todd bertuzzi hit against Steve Moore
There’s enough history between these two teams for a 10 episode series
Exactly. Yet they predictably decided to concentrate on Subban.
Make a beef history on Boston and Canada and you got a Last Dance Documentary
igor szamaszow in their defense, he is one of the most famous hockey players and he’ll resonate to non hockey fans
Jake The Chief it’s mostly montreal though, maybe toronto a bit but they have sucked for 50 years
That’s one id watch for sure
beef history: Toronto vs 42 year old zamboni driver
@Rob Melrose lol 4-1
@LM Falshmonette he is asking for a beef history video goofy
Toronto Maple Leafs vs a last placed team called the Ottawa Senators
Beef history: steve dangle vs david ayres
OH YES!
It's easier to list the teams that DON'T have a rivalry with the Bruins.
Especially the early to mid-2010s Bruins. Those guys were truly a "bunch of jerks". Not quite as bad now but they still aren't very likable with Marchand and Chara still on the team.
yes and no lots of teams go through mini rivalry years where they hate each other for a few seasons. The Bruins and Canucks used to want to kill each other but thats long gone now. Same with the Bruins and Stars when they had that game with 3 fights in the opening of a game.
The Bruins and Canadiens...
The Bruins and Leafs...
The Bruins and other Bruins...
Damn Bruins, they ruined the Bruins
Tevin Sherrill No not really, only Montreal Toronto, Pittsburgh and Tampa
Matty P The Bruins are so likable what do you mean?
I know nothing about hockey but i just love this series too much
Hockey rivalries are on some other level.
You should learn about hockey, it's fantastic.
I'm from the UK so I don't really know much about any of the sports covered, but this channel is amazing
Hockey beef is the best beef, because you're legally allowed to punch each other in the face, instead of throwing passive agressive shots on Twitter
@@philllllllll I think its due to the more physical nature of the game. Basketball is my favourite sport but football and hockey beefs are amazing to witness.
You could do a beef history on the 2011 cup final alone. A truly unique beef, which began and ended all within 2 weeks, but was some of the most intense beef you’ll ever see
The entire 2011 series, hell the whole season was weird. Bruins and Canucks were unknowingly on a collision course all year long. Game 7 was less than memorable but if the Canucks had won game 7 by a score of 1-0, they would have won the series while being outscored 19-9.
As a Canucks fan, f**k the 2011 Bruins.
CanuckGod
@@CanuckGod lol you guys torched your city and got 23 people stabbed cause you lost that game😂
@@abg7750 Canucks were pretty injured that series but yea
Beef History: Howie Roseman vs. Eagles Fans
Counteroffer: The Eagles vs. EDP445
that would be hilarious! that kelce speech was legendary. Howie go back to the other side of the building
EDP445 VS THE EAGLES would be legendary
Howie drafted well. Carson Wentz has never been healthy. I love Carson but we gotta be real.
YESSIR.
And Melenyk vs Ottawa but mainly Eagles vs EDP445. That’d be legendary
🦅
Not the beef history we deserved but the one we needed.
Beef history: Battle of Alberta
80s edition, maybe. The book hasn't been sufficiently written on the current iteration. It'll be an awesome look back once the book can finally be closed, though
not much of a beef
Sadly, over the past three decades it hasn't been much of a story.
@@ryanfriesen4366 you're boring
Battle of Beef: History of Alberta
As a Sabres fan I despise both of these teams, but goddamn do I love this rivalry. The era you described specifically had some of the best playoff series I have ever watched in my life long relationship with the sport. They were all out war and it was glorious. Excellent video, man.
i honestly, truly forgot the sabres were a team until this comment reminded me of them
Geatest rivalry in hockey and one of the greatest in sports
The best rivalry in hockey was Quebec and Montreal
Its the best in sports. No two teams have faced more in the playoffs
@@Eno22921 lol
Check out Real Madrid vs Barcelona. Even Pakistan vs India in cricket.
Ryan Friesen cant even spell
Avs redwings
6:38 Marchand calling someone out for not fighting is really the pot calling the kettle rat
Is he known for dodging fights I dont watch like that
Couldn't have said it any better myself.
HOOPDREAMS he’s a filthy rat who uses every dirty trick in the book and tries to injure other players
same with Lucic.... he wouldn't accept any of the several invites to fight with George Laraque.....
Marchand doesn't fight often, but he has dropped the gloves more than a few times.
Yes another hockey vid. Been waiting for a long time
you like hockey?
wait, you mean you didn't want another womens basketball video??
@@Simms4 Are you special or something? Why would he say he's been waiting for another hockey vid if he doesn't like hockey?
@@SharksSJ408 my parents call me special but i dont know who ed is {go sharks}
@@Simms4 lol go Sharks and Warriors
The Bruins: "The Canadiens get away with more than we do!"
Also the Bruins: *their captain gets away with no suspension after a hit that almost paralyzed his opponent*
Well the hit was legal, just a bad spot
I agree. I'm so glad we beat those bastards in the Stanley Cup Final. Let's Go Blues!!!
I think you're not understanding that Chara's hit was completely legal, he was playing the man with the puck and went for a check. Just happened to be at the wrong spot at the wrong time. They didn't suspend him because there was nothing malicious done
It was a legal hit by all means. However, the hit was made more severe due to Montreal not having the rounded partitions for their boards. They changed the boards after that incident.
Nick Hughes He doesn’t sit on the DoPS. He’s a board member for the league, but has no influence on the DoPS. If he did, then Marchand would not have had a single suspension in his career.
This is definitely one of the best rivalries in sports history.
You guys really have to make something about the Jail Blazers era. There's so much potential there.
Beef History: Vancouver Canucks and Mark Messier
They just did
This rivalry brought me back into hockey. I was a Habs fan as a kid, but lost touch with hockey growing up. Got back into it by following the local team, the Devils. This rivalry rekindled my passion for the sport and not long after I went back to rooting for my childhood team. Which has been rough lately, but seasons like the past few will only make a successful season that much sweeter.
No one going to talk about the first sentence in the article on 15:33, "If you stand in front of a mirror and say the words "Milan Lucic' three times, he'll appear out of nowhere and spear you in the groin." :)
😂
Us in Boston or all New England love the laid back people of Toronto. Awesome city too. But Montreal? They're just mean people. Try and get directions from Quebec back to new England. They say we no speak English
@@williamberry4615 and we feel the same towards you massholes
@@superbruhz2602 Even if you did like me I'd shi* on anything you had to say. USA and the rest of your own country wish you'd just become your own country and not have anything to do with us. You're all embarrassments.
A couple of suggestions
Rewinder: Joe Carter's walk off home run in game 6 of the 1993 World Series
Collapse: Miami Heat after winning back to back championships
The Heat haven’t really collapsed since those back to back championships?
They’ve managed to rebuild their roster into a solid team since then without ever finishing in the division cellar with rebuilding.
As a Celtic fan, the Heat didn’t collapse. Bosh should’ve still been playing last year if not for terrible heart problems and considering Lebron leaving a D. Wade retiring, they did a great job rebuilding quickly. They’ve got a fantastic front office and culture there.
E93 Sports a rewinder of the Carter walk off home run would be awesome. It is definitely deserving.
"Collapse: Miami Heat after winning back to back championships"
Sort of inevitable when the league is desperate for Lebron to win, and you can't flop through the playoffs.
Why start this 100 year rivalry in 2010 😂
Probably because it's so one-sided as far as success is concerned. Up until then it was mostly Montreal knocking Boston out of the playoffs aside from the b's dominance in the early 70's with Orr and Esposito.
William Sanders Despite the one sidedness,Maurice Richard and Laycoe got into a fight in ‘55 that led to a riot and Richard being suspended for the rest of the season and the playoffs.Also you can’t fully understand the habs-bruins beef without exploring the tensions between francophone québécois and the anglophone US.
Exactly! Very disappointing
William Sanders bro you gotta understand this is bigger than just hockey. I’ve literally been brought up to associate Boston with the enemy, and not just the bruins. It’s to the point that I naturally just hate the Pats and Celtics too. This entire city is fueled by hating the bruins tbh.
It's not rivalry history, it's beef history!
Beef history: The entire New England area vs everyone else
A Beef history "Blackhawks vs Canucks" Would be amazing, Those post season matchups were worth every penny! Chicago won a cup in 10 while going through them, then the Canuck finally got through Chicago, only to lose to the bruins in 7 for the cup.
Also "Caps vs Pens" would be outstanding even though its still strong beef today.
Always had much respect for Subban, Boston fans really showed a lack of grace with how they treated him. Hearing what was said to him really made me ashamed of my city and the team. Sports can get as heated, that’s normal but you don’t bring someone’s race into it. That’s something you can’t control.
That's just how Boston fans are.
As a bruins fan, I completely agree. I absolutely hate the canadiens, but I have so much respect for Subban. He was a fantastic player.
@@Zack_410 I don't think so. Stop parroting these rumors and give me evidence. Every city in the league has this problem, Montreal is no better.
@@Zack_410can we not generalize I get Boston fans are known for racist remarks but 99% of the fanbase don’t deserve to be roped in with the ones who have actually said things like that
Hockey beef > any other sport beef
You've clearly never watched soccer. In matches like Boca-River in Argentina or Red Star-Partizan in Serbia, you can get stabbed just by wearing the opposing team's shirt.
There was once a war caused by a soccer game ( the soccer game was the perfect mix in a chain of events to launch another chain of events that started a war. )
Fair, soccer fans are definitely the most fanatical and can be over the top in many parts of the world, I was not actually including war or murder on the part of fans in this beef category where they mainly look at beef between players, coaches or teams but for fan stuff soccer is the undisputed #1 worldwide.
Btw spike I played soccer for 15 years and played in uni in case you were wondering
@@mattanderson8575 oh yeah I knew you probably weren’t factoring in wars. I just thought it was a fun fact.
"You want a Tilly? Lets have a donnybrook!"
Tarps off boys!
Montréal-Québec rivalry in the '80's was crazy for us Québécois. Lot of french québécois in both teams, it divided the nation to a point which the québec government met the owners of both clubs to never more play the traditionnal December 31st game; it was creating too much turmoil in family's throughout the nation!
Loved this, but I feel like it was remiss to mention that Emelin, physically, was unable to fight. What made him so perfectly infuriating was that he could lay out huge hits, but because his entire face was being held together by a few plates, he literally could not fight without risking his entire face collapsing from even a weak hit.
Yeah, he had (has?) a metal plate in his face that means he can't really fight.
So that's why his go-to move is a hip check!
10:36 can we all just take a look at those atlantic division standings for a sec? Poor islanders
i don’t like hockey and even i know this rivalry
Haile Daniel hockey rivalries are something special
Richard Tylenda especially this one
Bro wyd you gotta get into hockey
In my case this is the best beef episode in the series thank you for posting this
This is the greatest rivalry of all time no questions
Just in hockey, or in all sports?
I reckon Wings-Avs reached a higher peak but obviously had much less longevity
Chara not getting suspended because of a clean record makes no sense since Fiala got 3 games suspended when he also had a clean record on a far less dangerous hit.
butchering Ference's name and mixing up the Pyatts #comeonman
Its a SB Nation hockey video, they gotta prove they know nothing about the sport.
Also said Dale wayze instead of Weise
They didn't mix up the Pyatts? It is Tom Pyatt.
@@brotherbruti He's referring to the better looking Pyatt, who we all know is Taylor, not Tom.
@@Manu-et9rj I literally just commented on this video and then that happened like two minutes later haha
I was sitting in the third to last row of the garden during Game 7 in 2011. It was my first ever bruins game. Four random people I didn't know hugged me. Everyone was hugging. I''ll never forget it.
This is, without a doubt, *the greatest rivalry in hockey* (and probably, with the possible exception of Habs/Leafs, the oldest too). Even when the Habs have been demonstrably worse than the Bruins, they've never had a hard time getting up and playing with the highest of intensity when facing their age-old rivals (which is one reason why Montreal is, more often than not, a bad matchup for Boston, even as they'd be a great matchup for most other teams). As a Habs fan, I've been enjoying this for a long time now...but while I can definitely say that there ARE Bruins who would be gifted statues in prominent places if they played for the Habs (Bergeron for sure, definitely Pastrnak, and _maybe_ even Lucic when he was a Bruin), Marchand is an exception to that. The rat is always taking things WAY too far, what with his licking guys and spearing them in the nuts. The mind boggles, because he's an incredible hockey player...but he just seems to have a screw loose that no amount of league scrutiny or team-mandated counselling (which I am certain he's endured) can fix. So...no, I would not love to see him on my team...in fact, I'd love it if the sum total of his insanity got him barred from the league permanently. Other players flirt with the line, some cross it just a bit, but Marchand doesn't even NOTICE the line as he's running past it at 100 mph. He's dangerous, and he's going to end up permanently hurting someone.
Marchand saying that Habs are a team you want to hit and Lucic calling someone a baby after being a sore loser and telling someone he'd kill them in a handshake line just proves that that Bruins team had no sense of irony.
I miss this rivalry so much, there is no real Hate between the two anymore sadly. hopefully soon we will get the fuel back in this fire.
F The Habs
good thing you guys got other rivalies with half the league lol
@@inaj79 Flyers, Leafs, Pens, Sabres, Habs. That's it
ah yes while watching this i got a notification that you posted it
the perfect system
This channel is so underrated!! Love it guys!
Funny story: I was at my first game at the Bell Center with my cousin to watch an Habs game for the first time and it was against the Bruins. We both wore Habs jersey and we were sooooo proud. But, right in front of us was 2 bruins fans with both of them wearing a Boston jersey. We knew we hated each other but the funny thing is that every time our team scored a goal, we were celebrating like crazy to irritate the other. But, instead of being mad and cursing at each other, it turns out we were all laughing and having fun of our small rivalry of celebration.
So, if there’s one thing to remember is even tho you hate a team, there’s one thing we have in commun, it’s that’s we love Hockey.
I never realized the context of the Chara Pacioretty hit. The week of the Boston Montreal fight night was one of the last gasps of NHL ultraviolence. The brawl game between the Islanders and Penguins was two games later. That game could definitely fill a beef history video. When the man who employs Matt Cooke (Mario Lemieux) is accusing another team of disgracing the league, you know things have gotten out of hand.
beef history: Evra vs. Suarez (Man Utd vs. Liverpool in general)
Thanks SB for creating this video segment on probably the most underrated rivalry in all of North American sports. From judging this video and getting info from books and other sources, I think most Boston sports fans never really hated the New York Yankees in MLB as much as many people have historically thought. I am starting to think that Red Sox nation for the most part was being more “jealous” of the Evil Empire championship success more than hating them. However from watching old sports videos during this great global quarantine of 2020, (thanks UA-cam)now I believe that the majority of Boston sports fans actually “hates” the Montreal Canadians the most as a divisional/regional rival in the 4 big sports leagues. While this hatred was restarted in the 2010s, I don’t think this rivalry as heated as say a 20 year period between 1970-1990. **Thanks SB nation for posting this. Please do a follow up on this “beef” focusing on the era between 1970-‘90 when these 2 historic clubs won combined 8 Stanley Cups in that generation. **
"1 and 2 baby!"
One of the times I laughed
Beef history flames and Oilers or any Calgary Edmonton beef in a sport like say the CFL😉😉😉
I want this beef to finish out, A stick flip, the line and goalie battle, Zach K and Matt T. I think a playoff series would really put this beef on the grill
Craig MacTavish vs Harvey the Hound
We gotta see what happens in the next 5 years first
If they did a beef history on the cfl like 17 people would watch it
It's sad now that two main players in that beef retired on the same day. That was fun to watch and will likely never see that again
Didn’t mention how Emelin suffered a big injury when he tried to run Lucic and failed
Nicholas Hume also didn’t mention how poking somebody’s nuts from behind disqualifies you from ever getting props for anything
Can’t believe you didn’t bring up the greatest comeback in NHL history
What does Philly have to do with this vid, but they were down to the Bruins 3 games to 0, and down 3 - 0 in game 7 and they came back
lol Lucic getting all mad about perfectly legal checks from Emelin and then calling other players babies is the height of hypocrisy.
iansteelmatheson he never was mad about the hits, he was mad that the canadiens never would man up and fight
iansteelmatheson well clean or not the hip check is always gonna have someone say that it was dirty
every time i see a new SB Nation hockey video it’s an immediate click
Thank you so much for doing this rivalry
wow this took me back, great stuff per usual.
Max Paccioretty was NEVER physical with the Habs for his stature. He’s thrown like 4 solid body checks with them and two or three of those you can barely find
He’s a phony little faker anyways.
@@princeofpop8 okay you bruins fan
Rewinder: montreal canadiens 2010 playoff run (8th seed beating out president's trophy winning washington followed by 2nd seed, Crosby lead Pittsburgh, both in 7 games). I dont know if this has that single narrative moment rewinder requires but it is the most excited I've been as a habs fan or even just as a hockey fan in general.
Thank you so much for this video. I've always wanted to see this
I know that ice cross downhill isn't a mainstream sport, but there really isn't a better rivalry right now than the Croxall brothers vs. the Dallago brothers. There is beef between those 4 every time they race each other.
Chara should've been suspended for the whole season.
He should have gone to jail for assault.
Fret Level Midnight okay I’m biased cuz I’m a bruins fan, but I watched a hab throw an islander into the stanchion from centre ice, nobody remembers that. That hit was more malicious than Chara’s hit, and if Chara weren’t as big and he were in a less dangerous area he’d get a 2 min minor at the most. Somethings (as shown in this video) your emotions get the best of you and you forget you’re 6, 9 and that hit resulted. Again not a clean hit by any means, but malicious intent... I’m not sure and if I’m wrong and Chara comes out about knowing that he was gonna injure max on that hit, I’d apologize for this comment.
Clean hit
Paulo Brasil he didn’t though, go cry about it somewhere else.
This was amazing to watch! Thank you!
as someone who just moved to vancouver from overseas, seeing that 2011 bruins team again just makes me feel a type of way.
Beef History: Reggie Miller vs. John Starks
gill2069 more like Reggie Miller vs MJ that would be s good one
So I don't watch hockey but I always love these beef vids because they explain everything so well
You should do a beef history on Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels.
Jayson Hoffman or Shawn Michaels and the rock. They hate each other that’s why they don’t work together
Or Hogan vs decent people.
wanderlustwarrior or Hogan vs literally anyone other than Andre the giant.
wanderlustwarrior or Hogan vs. telling any kind of story truthfully
It should've been stated in the video but Emelin never fought because he has a metal piece in his face keeping a bone together that kept his eye in place. He would've risked losing his eye if something went wrong.
Yessss more hockey content please! I have many, many ideas I could give you! (Beef [SJ Las Vegas would be good, even though Vegas is new], stories [the "planted" illegal stick!], records [the Canucks are the only team to lose a championship game 7 without a previous title and we've done it twice], you name it!)
I don't even watch other sports, but I swear I've seen 90% of your videos because of the quality.
I know you guys don't often cover football (soccer) but if you want beef, Roy Keane vs Patrick Vieira is legendary
As a lifelong Bruins fan, seeing the Habs suffer nowadays makes me so happy.
Like my dad always says:
"F**k the Habs."
It's always a good day when SB Nation puts out another hockey video.
wow... imagine having a long-standing rivalry with another NHL team 😅 (I’m a golden knights fan)
Gay knights
Oh man the good old days
SB Nation is the only thing keeping me going in quarantine
Please more hockey videos! There is so much history in the sport.
Great essay, great content, thank you.
Beef history is the best kind of history
10:37 do my eyes deceive me or does that say Ottawa is a playoff team?
I know for a fact my eyes dont deceive me seeing Toronto down there
xLeafs2012x 😂😂
Ottawa was fire in early 00-10’s
Definitely. Alfredsson, Spezza, Emery, Hasek, Lalime, Neil, Varada, Hossa, Heatley, Chara, Corvo, Saprykin, Bonk etc.
"Like he was shooting dice or something idk it's hard to tell" 🤣🤣🤣
Best rivalry hands down!! I was so hype watching all those habs/bruins games back in 2011 and especially that game brawl in February
Battle of Beef: History of Alberta
Have you guys ever done Steelers vs. Ravens? So many classic moments over the last 15 years.
You mentioned the Red Wings vs. Colorado Avalanche!!
Now THAT was beef!!
This was the golden era of hockey in the 2010s
Please do a video on Arsenal vs Man Utd beef during the late 90's and early 2000's
this was good but definitely had an anti-Boston bias
I remember watching the game with the Chara hit. No doubt, it's the dirtiest hit I've ever seen in hockey. A few inches away, and Max could've been paralyzed. A shock he got no retribution for that
The barrel where Pacioretty was hit, isn’t there anymore
12:52 that's rich from a cheap shot artist extraordinaire.
David Broughall 100 pt guy and a cup buddy
@@craigborth8047 Still a punk.
Easy to be one when you hide behind Zdeno Chara
@@henrymanzano9168 You got that right.
Henry Manzano what does big z have anything to do with brad marchand putting up 100 pts?
But always remember, there is NO illegal hit on Marchand!
🏒 + 🥊 = action. They have numerous brawls in hockey back in the 1970s and early 1980s, and they have nicknames for teams for the brawls and fights and they are:
Boston Bruins to Boston Bruisers.
Chicago Blackhawks to Chicago Rumblers, and
Philadelphia Flyers to Philadelphia Fighters.
Sbnation doing hockey every once in a blue moon. What is this? ESPN?
Chara's hit on pacioretty was one of the dirtiest
ThaReal Masto it wasn’t tho, it was completely clean lol
ThaReal Masto it was just in a bad spot
Jack Edwards is a legend
It's been a very entertaining run over the past several years. Kinda sad to see how weakness at the head office in Montreal has led to a downward spiral for Montreal.
What the hell your missing 90% of the rivalry didn’t talk about he 20s till the late 90s just went straight to the 2000s
Philadelphia Eagles v Dallas Cowboys beef, please explain it because I still don't understand it.
Love that time when Subban was in Montreal
I hope this rivalry revives the intensity that it had during the late 2000s and early 2010s.
Thank you SOOO much for beef history on nhl ! 10/10
That's some Canadian beef I'm smelling, eh?
Such a ham
What about the Zednick hit?
Ahhh some of the best hockey in recent years was this rivalry. By god do I miss it. Now when the Bruins play Montreal there is zero animosity. So boring.
That PK hit might have been the biggest *clean* hit i have ever seen in my life. That close up angle doesn't do it justice