Canadiens - Nordiques fights and cheapshots 4/26/87

[@brötzmannsax]

The Battle of Quebec was up there with the Battle of Alberta thru the 80's, thankfully we have these memories!

[@Weirdcore4567]

Better! the original "battle" rivalry of hockey teams, which is a name steeped in Canadian history. The Battle of Quebec between European empires.

[@brunodurand9334]

Ça me rappelle des souvenirs de mon enfance, le Canadiens à l'époque et les Nordiques était à mon avis la plus belle rivalité que les gens ont puent connaître. Un jour j'aimerais tellement que Québec aies leurs propres équipes et que la rivalité reprennent, à la place Mrs Betmans et ces compères gaspille leur énergie pour que les gens de Seattle aie une équipe.PS SEATTLE IL ME SEMBLE QUE CELÀ NE FAIT PAS VRAIMENT HOCHEY. CELA EST MA PERCEPTION DES CHOSES VOILÀ. BONNE JOURNÉE À TOUS BRUNO DURAND

[@Denon395]

Même si les Nordiques revenaient dans la LNH il n'y aurait plus la même rivalité qu'à l'époque, le hockey a beaucoup trop changé, il n'y a plus de bagarreurs, de coup vicieux comme avant, d'insultes entre les joueurs ou entre entraineurs, c'était une époque ou ils se détestaient vraiment, aujourd'hui c'est du hockey propre, du hockey politiquement correct ou tout les joueurs sont amis et font partis de l'association syndicale des joueurs. Regarder Edmonton et Calgary deux équipes encore présentes et ont n'est très loin de la rivalité qu'il y avait entre ces deux équipes dans les années 80, même chose pour les Islanders et Rangers, même Montréal et Boston était une grande rivalité à l'époque et aujourd'hui il en n'est plus rien. Le hockey d'aujourd'hui est plus rapide mais c'est ennuyant à mourir. C'est désolant mais c'est ainsi les époques changent malheureusement.

[@jason-hy8ci]

​@@Denon395 "Fartimis" GREAT NAME!!!!... Unfortunately you are 100% correct..... BUT, As we know, things go in cycles, so maybe one day HATE will come back. People today don't understand when I say hate, it's not just for HATE sake, I mean hate as in HATING TO LOSE.... Hating to lose ANYTHING, Hating to lose a FACEOFF, Hating to lose just ONE battle for the PUCK, Hating that team in your division because their trying to embarrass YOU, HATE is Good, HATE is Healthy..... HATE MAKES THE GRASS GROW!... Until society starts teaching kids to be afraid of Losing, and being put out on the street, or Just Plain Being DEAD...... We're not getting our REAL HOCKEY Back, but REMEMBER Everything goes in CYCLES. ☝️

[@gman9035]

Oh those rivalries in the 80s. So awesome. Hockey so boring now.

[@kathywilkins269]

agreed

[@thomastherriault6199]

McCrae and Momesso, Chuck Norris division.

[@iblockpuncheswithmyface1490]

@@sequoiadrive1 I thought the 80's were crazy. The 60' and 70's were outright insane.

[@rickrobitaille8809]

Gary bettman and rest of hockey, put a team back in quebec's hot bed of hockey,reviving the balance back to when Canadian teams and USA teams all had a chance

[@rickrobitaille8809]

We need hockey In QUEBEC CITY, it will revive one of the greatest rivalries all time, Gary bettman, bring it

[@misakiyoshida]

He wants desert hockey like a punk where he can make money. lousy commissioner

[@stevenmortensen1257]

Was Chellios , then a Canadian , turtling or praying under Gillis . The prayer might have been , " God , I don't fight decent fighters . Get me out of here ".

[@stratovani]

The Canadiens and Nordiques absolutely hated each other.

[@rickrobitaille8809]

It was DOPE my friend Nordiques

[@ryankatz7707]

Back when showing a picture of the fight on the gazette sports section front page was acceptable

[@rickrobitaille8809]

Nordiques you are Right there,think how good this is for NHL

[@juan833blue]

The Golden age of the NHL if not all of Hockey

[@jason-hy8ci]

Amen. 🙏 The mid to late eighties often regarded as the "2nd Ice Age", the first of course being the Glorious seventies, the first Era in hockey where Aggressive, and Intimidating Hockey was truly used as a Game plan to Win, BUT Personally, the mid & late 80's was MY FAVORITE era, I think the level of team toughness was more evenly balanced, I definitely think the players in general were tougher in the 70's, but the level of the "Fight Game" so to speak, was more "Systematic" should I say? I guess you could say???...... It was then Fully ingrained into the Game, Hell, I remember the then Mayor of Boston, "Raymond Flynn" somewhere I believe during the 1986/87" season threatening to charge players for FIGHTING!!! (might have been the brawl game with Montreal when C. Nilan suckered P. Boutillier), but the mid/late 80's to me was very special.

[@jkappianaq]

When hockey was hockey.

[@thecerealguy7713]

jkappianaq you beat your wife every day???

[@jkappianaq]

@@thecerealguy7713 what an asshole

[@alanmartins6349]

He probably does that's why he likes this cheap shot crap.

[@ChrisDutch]

Not a lot of love lost between those two teams.

[@thetruthissweet2847]

Quebec deserves a NHL team. Move Arizona to Quebec when Seattle comes in.

[@daveyboy_]

The NHL doesnt want relocation they want expansion so you cant bring in too many teams too quickly

[@thetruthissweet2847]

@@daveyboy_ they are maxed out with 32 teams when Seattle comes into play. You can't have more expansion.

[@daveyboy_]

@@thetruthissweet2847 The league gets more money with expansion as opposed to relocation

[@thetruthissweet2847]

@@daveyboy_ I realize that. More than 32 teams waters down.the NHL. That is the problem with the NBA and NFL. Too many teams. A perfect playoff format results from 32 teams. If not Arizona, then move Florida to Quebec.

[@daveyboy_]

@@thetruthissweet2847 more $ with expansion

[@humankirk9196]

The French Canadians really live their hockey. Closest thing to this is either Habs-Bruins or Flames-Oilers. RIP Nordiques, Bettman does not deserve you.

[@johnhealy9238]

Haha Habs and dekes. Miss those 2 trying to kill each other when hockey was brutal back in the 80s

[@frankleroux2733]

Yep and as habs fan, I wish their return to hate them again lol

[@snoxbox]

Lemieux actually started a fight and didn't turtle. Awesome.

[@frankleroux2733]

As a habs fan I hate the Bruins now, but not as hard I hated The Nordiques lol

[@intheboxman9362]

ya for shure i m the same for your fucker for moronreal you fucking moron good luck in the playoff euh! excuse me your not going to be there again ah ah ah ah ahhahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa............

[@joeyparm9887]

FOOOOOORE! again

[@miked6335]

3 years of high school French and I didn't understand a damn word. In my defense, that was 50 years ago.

[@tinotse2007]

Who else misses the Nordiques?

[@damienchance2622]

I do

[@tinotse2007]

@@damienchance2622 Any other Teams? Perhaps Hartford?

[@damienchance2622]

@@tinotse2007 yes

[@tinotse2007]

@@damienchance2622 Same here. Wasn't the same when the team moved to Carolina.

[@damienchance2622]

@@tinotse2007 yep... maybe someday in the future hopefully we will have a couple of expansion teams after Seattle

[@done1675]

Chris Chelios was always such a fucking spot picker. Gillis-Lemieux would have been a good scrap.

[@phillipstankey8881]

1:40 That would be at least a five game suspension nowadays

[@mbombo2725]

Gillis was an ass hole!

[@pierre-lucfaubert-dame7598]

STFU, idiots

[@VintageOnline100]

Try a 20 game suspension.

[@dannymacdougall366]

Coaches Bergeron and Perron.

[@servicesupport619]

That hit from behind @1:40 was dirty. It all seemed pretty gutless if you ask me. Watch any Bob Probert game, that was hockey in the 80’s

[@brianfantana8510]

80s hockey was so violent.

[@damienchance2622]

So as the 90's

[@jason-hy8ci]

It was BEAUTIFUL!!! Wasn't it???

[@stephaneblais9149]

Today's hockey is unwatchable

[@thecerealguy7713]

Stéphane Blais why because guys aren’t maiming each other?

[@TheNorgate]

I'm a Bruins fan but it looked to me like it was the Nordiques pulling all the dirty stuff.

[@liveclassictunes]

gutless hit from behind by Gillis... somebody should have made him pay for it...

[@ing.kenderescobar1737]

😅 À quel point ces Canadiens ont perdu en jouant et en se battant 😅

[@MrRp25]

Then a hockey game broke out!

[@denniskramer9657]

original.....

[@billgross2097]

Fights?

[@vindiggs]

What's the problem?

[@bronxsportsfan]

There was this fight at the beginning of the KZbin video BEFORE THE START OF THE GAME! [Just go to 0:00 in case you missed it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

[@rogerkaputnik2877]

hockey players are so soft these days

[@done1675]

Truer words were never spoken!

[@daveyboy_]

Quebec , what a buncha goons. Oh well , no more Steinberg's no more O'Keefe and no more Nordiques.

[@iv-kingroy-iv2225]

C'mon man. Be real. Not even a Nordiques fan, but both teams were instigators. Lemieux and Nylan meet Hunter and Mcrae. Both teams were stacked with agitators. Add a cross province rivalry and a beer war for sales; that's what we get.

[@daveyboy_]

@@iv-kingroy-iv2225 Hmm , all i saw were hits from behind - from Nordiques. I didnt see Nilan do anything, are u sure you watched the same video ?

[@iv-kingroy-iv2225]

@@daveyboy_ you are right. Nilan was my man! He wasn't really a dirty agitator; more like "you goofballs do your thing, when it gets serious and I need To step up I will". The Nordiques did play dirty as heck this game. Just tryin To say it went both ways; I'm a habs fan. Hunter was dirty as can be. Just tryin To say that the habs also stirred some s***; though less this game. But they still had Lemieux and Chelios... Love them both as players, but you gotta admit they were dirty as heck also.

[@daveyboy_]

@@iv-kingroy-iv2225 By 87 Nilan was half the Shit disturber he was earlier in his career.

[@Papawill13]

Quebec was like the red headed step child that kept coming back to the house after the family abandoned it. Of course they were the agitators, very, very, very rarely could they ever skate with Montreal so they resorted to step child BS. Every single incident involving these teams the Nordiques tried to as much dirty stuff as possible.

[@thomasgosselin7358]

My god that ref sucked hope he was fired after this game.

[@flemingcourt]

If you want UFC, then go there.