30 Dirty Players in 30 Days. The Boston Bruins The NHL does a pretty good job reviewing the Boston Bruins for the 2009/10 season. They even mention potential lineup combinations which are great for anyone getting ready for a hockey pool. Of course, none of this information helped me with daunting task of picking the dirtiest Boston Bruin ever.If Atlanta had too few players to choose from, Boston presented me with the opposite problem. I went through many candidates when trying to nail down the dirtiest player from the Boston Bruins 85 year history in the NHL. Eddie Shore, Ted Green, Terry O’Reilly and Mike Milbury all popped into my mind and onto my browser as I tried to select the perfect example of cheap, dirty hockey. However, in the end there was no one that seemed cheaper than Ken Linseman. While he never caved in anyone's skull like Shore or jumped into the stands to beat on fans like O'Reilly, Linseman did manage to get convicted of assault by kicking an opposing player in the forehead with his skate. Once he got up to the bigs, "The Rat" became famous for starting scrums and then skating away from them like a ... well, like a rat. Not a big man, Linseman became the master of the slash, spear and crosscheck. I found this clip where he manages to give a two handed slash, a spear and a punch to two different players within 8 seconds. And of course, there is nothing cheaper than a stick to the crotch from behind. You stay classy Ken. More than his stickwork, Linseman was known for his constant chatter on the ice. I searched long and hard for some audio or at least some quotations from Mr Linseman's on-ice banter. I could not find any. However, I did find an article with this interesting quote from an anonymous poster that gives us an idea of how annoying he could be. Kenny Linseman is an asshole...Many of us townies wish he would move back to Canada. He picked up surfing and his "trademark" incessant yapping is annoying in the surfing lineup. His other "trademark" of not backing up his mouth is also displayed in the water. At 50 years old, you would think a level of maturity would be attained.Can one really ever go from stick-to-the-crotches to maturity? My advice to the poster is to watch your crotch when Mr Linseman is surfing behind you.
December 05, 2009 at 10:16 pm
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