80's and 90's Norris Division Blues Killers

[seattleblue]

the difference between now and then for me is that back then there were not players on other teams that I hated but wanted to be a Blue/would have loved as a Blue. The way the players cheapshotted each other back then was 19 bridges too far. that's what made the Norris so (bleep) great, the hate was real and you could expect to see it on the ice every time you went down to the old barn.

this current Blues team reminds me of the perennially 5-11 football Cardinals. just miles from collectively competitive. not even a consideration that competing is happening. Occasional one off game and a handful of decent players.

[blues2112]

Too young to remember much of the 80s but I absolutely hated Steve Larmer, Belfour, Ciccarelli, Probert, Draper, McCarty, Roenick, Chelios, Baumgartner, Pearson, Macoun. Mike Foligno on the Leafs and his weird helmet too.

You just set me back in years of therapy!!!!

[blues2112]

Hopefully some of you guys watch the Hull and Chase podcast. They did one with Butcher that was hilarious. Bobby Smith, Ron Wilson and Brian Bellows all wore hair pieces back then and the Blues were whistled for being offsides by the North Stars bench. The ref mentioned they were offsides by just a hair, after which Butcher pointed at the Minnesota bench and said “but not your hair.”

Priceless!

Ugh. Garth Butcher. Would gladly have foregone that "wit" to have ronning, mommeso and courtnall back. As valuable as steve ott. "But these guys are good in the room" .

I really don't get why people revere Ron Caron. He made decisions like a kid playing video games.

Agree. He followed up that doozy with then sending dan quinn and rod the bod to get ron sutter and murray baron. He made some amends later jettisoning butcher for steve duchesne but listened to brian sutter too much.

exactly his problem. Sutter had fought Butcher once and thought they needed a 'tough guy' for an assumed PO series vs CHI (which iirc, never happened that year)

but will give him this, in the series vs DET Probert was going after Stevens every chance he got and Butcher got in his face and for whatever reason, Probert would just skate away

Yes, he got Probert so mad that Probert attacked our goalie Riendeau (sp?). I am not sure why Probert didn't fight him? They did a lot of hacking and whacking with the sticks but no fights. Didn't Probert skate by the bench and clip Butcher with his stick? I know it happened but I can't recall if it was the playoffs or if it was a regular season game? The regular season games against the Chicken Hawks were like playoff games anyway. Good times!

Was this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSxeeVaGiCQ

[BrummerStealsHome]

Just reading the subject line before opening the the thread the image of Dougie Gilmour popped into my head. Man, he must have loved tormenting his old team. Someone mentioned him already on page 1.

I think the biggest Blues killer of that era had to be Ciccerelli. Dang, I hated that guy. Of coures, I hated Harold Snepsts until he became a Blue.

[zuck698]

Hopefully some of you guys watch the Hull and Chase podcast. They did one with Butcher that was hilarious. Bobby Smith, Ron Wilson and Brian Bellows all wore hair pieces back then and the Blues were whistled for being offsides by the North Stars bench. The ref mentioned they were offsides by just a hair, after which Butcher pointed at the Minnesota bench and said “but not your hair.”

Priceless!

Ugh. Garth Butcher. Would gladly have foregone that "wit" to have ronning, mommeso and courtnall back. As valuable as steve ott. "But these guys are good in the room" .

I really don't get why people revere Ron Caron. He made decisions like a kid playing video games.

Agree. He followed up that doozy with then sending dan quinn and rod the bod to get ron sutter and murray baron. He made some amends later jettisoning butcher for steve duchesne but listened to brian sutter too much.

exactly his problem. Sutter had fought Butcher once and thought they needed a 'tough guy' for an assumed PO series vs CHI (which iirc, never happened that year)

but will give him this, in the series vs DET Probert was going after Stevens every chance he got and Butcher got in his face and for whatever reason, Probert would just skate away

Yes, he got Probert so mad that Probert attacked our goalie Riendeau (sp?). I am not sure why Probert didn't fight him? They did a lot of hacking and whacking with the sticks but no fights. Didn't Probert skate by the bench and clip Butcher with his stick? I know it happened but I can't recall if it was the playoffs or if it was a regular season game? The regular season games against the Chicken Hawks were like playoff games anyway. Good times!

Was this it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSxeeVaGiCQ

That is the one! Bobby was a bad boy. Vincent went down like he was hit by a sniper. The OLD Barn was shaking to the rafters that night.

I miss the old barn. It was dirty and maybe falling a part, but man what fun it was to watch games there. The old Chicago Stadium gave me that feeling too. I was lucky enough to see a few Blues games there. I also got to see Jordan play there. You want to talk electric! The entrance, before the game, would give you goosebumps. These new arenas don't come close.