NHL Dirtiest Hits Of All Time

NHL Dirtiest Hits Of All Time, some of the nastiest hits throughout NHL history.

[Delta Highlights]

Hey guys I'll make a part 2 soon, so let me know what to include! Also which hit do you think was the dirtiest? (I didn’t include the Todd Bertuzzi sucker punch because this video was only of dirty body checks)

[Griffy]

Its really good but can you do a video based on Matt Cookes dirty hits?

[Kevin Stull]

I can't remember the year this game took place, but it was between the Anaheim Mighty Ducks and the Dallas Stars and one of the Stars players made a nasty hit on Teemu Selanne that knocked him out of the game. Then, all hell broke loose during that game.

[Cryonic Crusader]

Dirtiest? Hard to say with all the head shots - it's close between Torres on Hossa and Cooke on Savard. In terms of ones you should include in part 2: Trevor Gillies's head shot and punches on Eric Tangradi, Trevor Gillies' jumping Cal Clutterbuck, Gary Suter's cross check to the face of Paul Kariya (I remember that in Nagano, he got booed every time he touched the puck for that because the Japanese fans wanted to see Paul Kariya play), Ulf Samuelsson's knee on Cam Neely, Brad Marchand low-bridging Sami Salo, Vaclav Varada's boarding of Krys Kolanos, Todd Bertuzzi on Steve Moore... those are all the ones I can think of right now. Well, and umpteen more knee-on-knee hits by Marchment and Cooke.

[1andonlyMiro]

McDavids elbow on Kotkaniemi. Maybe not the hardest hit, thankfully no serious injuries there, but it was extremely dirty. Edited the name of Kotkaniemi, wrote Heiskanen initially.

[MasterofHockey]

You should include all Tom Wilson hits

[Alexander Batten]

its so insane that matt cooke got away with injuring so many people. absolute disgrace

[GoalieG33]

I saw in the hit against Ryan McD, he had an A on his sweater. Anyone else on that roster deserves it more than him.

[RedWings51930]

The fact that he was allowed to play for so long and be suspended so few times is an absolute embarrassment

[Paul Belamour]

Evander Kane took care of Cooke

[Spatn Hpen]

Even as a pens fan, he is my most hated nhl player

[Ben Dover]

Erik Karlsson- has never been the same

[Frizzyy]

Will forever respect Keith for dropping Cooke like that , one of the only ones who deserve that kind of hit

[White Heat]

If only someone had been able to give him a kick to the face while he was down…

[Punk Floyd]

If only someone did the same to Keith for all of his cheap shots.

[Chase Neumann]

Love the comradery at 8:55, the way his two teammates turned immediately at exactly the same time, thinking exactly the same thing "Ima fuck this guy up!"

[David Ford]

Yep, plus Marchment had a reputation of knee on knee hits, so they knew what was up

[Carolyn Chapman]

The person died😥😥😥

[Dave Little]

8:55 two teammates watch the cheap shot and immediately turn away from the play and go after the thug. We all need friends like them!

[CookingUpGaming]

Hockey brotherhood

[Michael]

I know right…. They both turned on a dime with nothing else on their mind but revenge

[Miguel Mathieu-Fernandez]

we’re barely aware that you exist

[Joe Davies]

As a rugby fan and former player, we put so much emphasis on head contact in our sport nowadays, some of these hits make us look like school kids in a slapping contest.

[Krehlmar]

It's why I really respect rugby, they always tout not being football(soccer) and they're very physical but they also respect the game. Hockey nowdays is much better, especially in the EU, but most people don't understand how much damage that much of mass (the player) tackling a head can do. It's like two cars crashing at 30kmh, might seem slow but it basically becomes a 60kmh crash into a wall.

[theouter_banks]

Yes and rightly so. Some people still don't realise how bad head injuries are.

[Living The Dream]

Hockey players are skating while they hit you, and it's 4 times the force for every double speed. Hockey >>>>> rugby

[Hydra Shok]

@Living The Dream You just repeated what he said and made it sound like you thought he was wrong at the same time.

[Bing Boone]

Modano getting dropped at 6:58 has some attitude era WWF vibes going on, even the announcer "can't believe we just saw that" of course Modano got quite the payday in that lawsuit lol

[David Zarrick]

@Big Boone Did he really file and win a lawsuit? How much did he win?😊

[Scooty's Garage]

No bedpan though

[Justin Owen]

Matt Cooke is a such a disgrace to the game. Despite the fact Keith's hit on him was dirty, I don't think anyone felt bad for him. You reap what you sow.

[mario Bouchard]

Well said!

[Brad Divens]

Pens fan here and totally agree. Cooke was always dirty.

[wolfumz]

I don't watch NHL, I just got this video on my recommended. It's hilarious to me that the top 20 comments are all talking shit about Matt Cooke. I have no idea who this man is, but I know I am supposed to hate him.

[mario Bouchard]

@wolfumz Hello! Now we can all feel better not having to watch Matt Cooke play ever again. Complete lack of respect for the sport and of other players.

[joe youngs]

Agreed and so many I could add to the list.

[FYG 28]

That hit Keith gave Matt Cooke was well deserving

[who are you]

nah

[Kyle Raymer]

Same with his hit on Sedin.

[Funko Popn' Lockn']

I got goosebumps when I saw the hit on Nathan Horton. I remember watching that game so clearly as a kid, I will never forget that hit.

[baron0877]

To this day, Aaron Rome should never step foot back in Boston without his head on a swivel

[Brandon]

​@baron0877 Horton should have had his head on a swivel. Looked like a clean step up on a guy with his head down.

[Steven Cassidy]

If that hit doesn't happen, Vancouver sweep that series. Boston were playing well and the hit just fired up the hole team.

[Cory Garfield]

The Rome/Horton hit was clean, should have been watching what was in front of him and not admiring his pass.

[Punk Floyd]

​@Cory Garfield it was a bit late, but it wasn't dirty on the same level as these other cheap shots. For the editor to put it into the same category is an insult and shows pure ignorance about hockey and the situation. There is a world of difference between hitting someone slightly late versus deliberately trying to injure like most of these other clips.

[John Schauder]

A lot of the older ones were legal at the time…like Scott Stevens on Paul kariya and his one on Eric Lindros. Up until 2010 it was legal to target the head. The only reason some of those hits were because of boarderline elbowing, charging, interference, hit from behind, boarding or leaving the feet. As long as you stayed low and kept your elbow tucked in, you could blindside someone’s head with your shoulder KO them with no call. There were also way more fights and line brawls. Shit used to be crazy in the nhl

[DevilzFan]

Yup. Stevens hits were legal hits at the time. They would not fly in today's NHL, but completely legal hits then.

[Stanley Dolan]

It’s more like how many were sent out to do it, leftovers from the goon days. The chief, Buick used to deliver the classic hip check , with the opposing player flat on the ice looking at the referee for a call that wasn’t to come.

[Gabriel D'Souza]

Think about how many men's lives were ruined by this type of dogshit brutality

[Michael Saupe]

​@Gabriel D'Souza Oooooh the humanity! 😭

[Lokigård]

​@Gabriel D'Souza - Not that many, or else they wouldn't have kept playing. What a weak society we are becoming.

[mentalhazord]

The Stevens hits are brutal. The guy was a truck. Kariya got the last laugh in that game. He was resurrected and scored. Lindros was a walking concussion. He never learned to skate with his head up. In the 90's that was a death sentence.

[Patrick Hender]

Agreed .

[Julie Miller]

When they ran over the guy with the stretcher I was crying 😂😂

[Marty Truelove]

Speed Bump

[Honey Sanchez]

He just dropped him.

[PowWow Ken]

The fact that Cooke was allowed to play in the NHL for such a long time is honestly just depressing, especially seeing him with a letter on his jersey as if that guy was some kind of role model to look up to.

[outer banks fans]

Number?? Like 16:43

[DirkDiggler286]

Tom Wilson is way worse

[Raptorz 1]

Tom Wilson is the new Cooke, Wilson shouldn’t be in the NHL anymore

[Hugh Janus]

He was a great player. If ya can’t handle it watch ballet ya little girl

[Joshua]

@Hugh Janus you must watch hockey strictly for the violence... When there's no skill, when you are a violent player because you have no skills, that shit shouldn't be allowed in game. It's selfish, make a career out of ending others careers. Pitiful. I like hockey for everything else, aside from the unnecessary, illegal violence. It literally is assault. Violence that is within the guidelines is cool with me, but some players really need a reality check, they think they can get away with anything.

[Ben]

I grew up next to a former NHL player as a kid I always thought hockey players were "dumb brutes" since him and all his former player friends seemed a bit slow... as a teenager I realized what was going on and it's sad

[Scooty's Garage]

CTE is no joke. Its not just hockey that is going through it, rugby players here are on the back end of it too

[Jordan Sim]

I mistakenly hit someone from behind once when I was pretty young, Buddy turned at the last second and I didn’t have the reaction time to correct myself, I was shook. Seeing hits like these give me the chills because it’s really no joke.

[Henry McNeil]

Stevens on Korea was one of the best cleanest open ice hits I've seen in my life. Same for the lindros hit Stevens was my idol always kept it clean. When I played hockey I tried to emulate his style of play. Edit watching it again the korea hit was questionably late but everybbig hitter is going to make that mistake a few times in their career

[Adam]

"Raffi Torres 5th career suspension" I don't watch hockey but just hearing this is concerning. No wonder this is such a rampant issue in the league when guys can get away with it 5+ times and still come back to play

[jim red]

I`m from the UK, grew up in the 70`s;......this is the sport I most regret never having the chance to play. These are some tough moments but there is NO team sport (without a net in the middle) that doesn`t experience moments like this.

[Inconnu 49]

I thought you guys had a hockey league in UK? i realize everything is over-shadowed by soccer there. Sorry you missed out, but you can enjoy it with us here on KZbin!

[jim red]

@Inconnu 49 The league came much later here in the UK. I`ve always been fascinated by the intense rivalry between the USA & Canada. Although my knowledge is limited regarding Hockey, growing up I did know that the USSR reigned supreme, closely followed by Czechoslovakia. I also recall the incredible miracle on ice in 1980.

[Delilah Anne Fowler]

As a penguins fan, I’d like to apologise for Matt Cooke. Even for his dirty hits against the bruins.

[Pensfan 5919]

I don't even acknowledge him ever being a Penguin anymore.

[Matt D.]

As one as well I ditto that

[Cryonic Crusader]

I often find myself apologizing for the Canucks having drafted him. He might be the dirtiest regular player in the NHL over the last 20 years. (Trevor Gillies was worse, but he only played 57 NHL games.) Tom Wilson is starting to get up there with all his head shots, though.

[Jermbug_RVA]

As a Caps fan I'd like to apologize for Tom Wilson. The guy seems to go out of his way at times to be dirty.

[Danny Devito]

Want to apologize for your announcers too

[火車快飛]

Jack edwards definition of a dirty hit depends on if the bruin player is being hit or hitting someone lmao

[Tim Smith]

I can't imagine anyone likes listening to Jack. I'm a long time Bruins fan and his homerism is nausiating to listen to. I rather find the game on national tv coverage if it's available than listen to Jack Edwards talk.

[Ricardo Yandex]

@Tim Smith Worst commentator I've ever heard in any sport, by a mile.

[David Zarrick]

@Ricardo Yandex Jack The Hack is horrible. He might be as bad as the late Tom Mees (R.I.P.), who used to call games for ESPN back in the day, was. In fact, almost every broadcaster - in any sport - on the branch of the ESPN tree sucks.

[cg]

He might be on to something given how bad the hits on Savard and Horton were, and how the one on Pacioretty was sheer misfortune.

[Krehlmar]

06:50 holy shit that's insane, hitting the ice without the helmet is ten times worse than any hit

[Paul-BaseballCollector]

And then the paramedics DROPPED HIM lol...poor Modano 6:59

[Coastaku]

I'm actually amazed it was Messier who hit him too

[Jack Walsh]

2:38 that is terrifying. look at how close those skates were to his neck.

[Rudraksha11 Gaming]

Definitely

[jenna🌱]

I CRINGED SO HARD

[Hikari Amanojaku]

15:51 MAD props to ehlers for blocking the huge fight from getting any closer to evans

[Stocky12788]

Matt Cooke is a criminal. Was happy to see Duncan Keith put a dirty hit on Cooke, although Keith too had a couple features here as well. Awesome video.

[David Ford]

Im a pens fan and I agree 1000%. I hated the fact that he was a Penguin

[Pierre D]

7:00 The cheapest shot was from the paramedic who drop the already injured player on the ground !! LMAO

[lxced.]

lmfaoooo damn

[STOP]

Looked like it belonged in a wwe segment tbh

[A YouTube Guy]

lol took two Ls...but damn to have that happen to him on live tv 😂

[Armando Ortiz]

Like watching WWE

[LtHockey Hockey]

I feel so bad for laughing at this lol

[Julie Miller]

I grew up watching hockey and could practically skate before I could walk and I was like 8 years old and I wasn’t satisfied with a game unless there was fights with blood and teeth missing. I was bloodthirsty. Now I’m a sports epidemiologist who studies CTE in contact sports and I miss the ignorance I had and the absolute cringes I feel now, knowing full well what’s going on in the noggin.

[db db]

This falls under the category of who cares.

[Geoff Pritchard]

@db db You do. You replied 9 months after the poster.

[Weaponized Memes]

I don't know anything about hockey, but how some of these aren't straight up assault charges is insane.

[Ali Gilani]

Same I’m not really into hockey either but these hits are hella scary

[RedVeinBorneo]

A couple hockey players did get in legal trouble for high sticks to the head. Marty Mcsorley cracked Donald Brashear in the head from behind with his stick and got in sone trouble. There were a couple more but I don't think they were in this video.

[Jeremy Thiessen]

Matt Cooke on Marc Savard. Glad you had the hit on Horton too. A lot of People only complain about Marchand in that series, but the Canucks were just nasty too.

[Danny Maguire]

Marchand is simply just a dirty player. One of my favorite videos is where he gets cup checked by Brandon Prust, who actually should have got an award for finding it on rat boy. I'm sorry, the slew footing rat boy.

[Jackie Parmz]

Both of those teams were filled with dirty players. I was going for the Bruins, cause I’m a Hawks fan and the Canucks were basically our blood rivals at the time, but Jesus… I remember being thankful that series was over.

[Jim Doan]

The "dirtiest" hit that I've ever seen was Claude Lemieux of the Avalanche on Kris Draper of the Red Wings.

[Jackson]

If they make a video of sucker punches Lemieux had an incredibly dirty sucker punch on I think Maltby? The guy redefined dirty

[dana102083]

​@Jackson i found it and it was draper..the hit that was a catalyst in detroit/avs rivalry

[Jackson]

@dana102083 Yeah you're thinking of the hit, but there was also a sucker punch from Lemieux

[farthwall]

10:19 god i miss RJ so much. iconic charisma and always telling it how it is, miss u RJ

[john barry]

Pierre Turgeon was never the same player after that hit (shoulder never fully healed). The hit also cost the Islanders as they lost their best player, next playoff round, and super star player for multiple years. He had 58 goads and 74 assists that year (career highs by far), continues play for 13 more years, averaging 22.8 goals per year. Prior to the hit he averages 36 goals per season (6).

[Mike Jackson]

Hunter should have been suspended for life. That was definitely intent to injure.

[The Gobbledygooker]

@Mike Jackson And was a well-known scumbag on top of it all. The play was completely over, can't claim heat-of-the-moment, or "things happened too fast..."

[eaglesyz]

Hunter did the same thing to Bruins Gary Galley...Galley scored a goal and after the goal, Hunter drilled him with a cheap shot.

[RealestGamerAlive]

to be fair, that's not why his numbers went down so much, as the leagues scoring was an all time high in 93 and it went down every year after that, the 98-04 seasons had the lowest scoring ever. Guys with UNDER 80 POINTS were top 10 in 2004. Thats why guys like Sundin Iginla Alfredsson and Datsyuk don't have more career points, and especially Jagr. Jagr had 3 seasons in the KHL after the rangers, plus the 04 05 season, you take those into account and the era he played in? His adjusted points compared to say, Gretzky's prime era, would be likely about 2500 career points. Far from Wayne but, much more than everyone else.

[HardRockMiner]

God I miss Bob Cole and Dick Irvine. That's hockey history right there.

[Shmonguss McRibb]

Duncan Keith will always be a personal hero of mine for dropping Cooke like that. Absolutely phenomenal stuff.

[Raymond Gaule]

Chara on Pacioretty was not a dirty play, it simply happened at a dangerous spot on the ice. Thanks to that hit, all arenas have curved glass in that area now.

[Jägeräger]

A elbow to the back of the head shouldn't be seen as normal play..

[Raymond Gaule]

@Jägeräger Feel free to watch the clip you think you saw.

[cucamonga95]

@Jägeräger what are you talking about, elbow to the head? Did you even see the Chara Pacioretti clip?

[TheRedGuy]

I was going to say this. Clean hit, just wrong place wrong time. For the record, I am not a Boston fan. I calls 'em like I sees 'em.

[Cyn]

People rag on the bruins as a dirty team, but even just in this video you watch Nathan Horton and Marc Savard, two of our best players in the last 20 years, have their careers ended by dirty plays.

[Adam Peterson]

Yeah but for every hit y’all received, you gave out 2 more. Hell in the last 5 minutes you see Marchand with 3 dirty plays himself.

[David Moro]

Savvy was great.

[cg]

People tend to talk out of their ass. They suddenly stopped calling Lucic "dirty" the second he was traded to the Kings.

[Max Medverd]

Biggest shame is that the pendulum has swung way to far the other way now with all the new rules and stuff. I mean just look at the new USA Hockey rules, barely allowed to bump each other, or drop in open ice hits. Let’s keep destroying hits away without ruining the uniquely physical side of the great game of hockey.

[Trevor Nicholson]

The paramedics knocking the stretcher over while transferring mike modabo gave me a chuckle lol

[Tomas Perovsky]

geez, that was like a scene from hot shots

[Moe Erbas]

Really !! - Even the crowd wasn't chuckling

[Tom Thomas]

Your sick if you thought that was funny. The guy was probably hurt more by that.

[Hockeydoge25]

@Tom Thomas it was funny and he wasn't hurt by it

[Fwater]

@Tom Thomas it’s only funny now because we know he wasn’t hurt more by it.

[James Westhaver]

What about the tackle from behind by Canuck’s Todd Bertuzzi after skating half the ice that drove Moore’s head into the ice. The most cowardly and dangerous hit in my lifetime of watching hockey.

[Cheyne Best]

Everyone knew what was coming and it's very poor that it escalated that way

[Golson Moldon]

LOL

[David Risley]

That wasn't a hit it was an assault.

[Ryan Morrison]

That hit Stevens dished out on Kariya was absolutely a charge. This is coming from a huge Scott Stevens fan

[Henry McNeil]

You don't know what charging is. His feet were planted long before the hit.

[Teddy]

Scott Stevens hit on Lindros was absolutely a dirty hit. Stevens went right for the head, as he had done throughout his career many times. . Stevens could have still put on a good clean hit, but he chose to target the head on a vulnerable player. Lindros could have avoided the head contact if he had his head up and seen it coming though.

[apple tile]

I remember when I was young and hadn't turned to goaltending yet, I was skating up the wing along the boards and a player lined me up for a dirty hit, out of the corner of my eye I could see him charging at me....I slammed on the brakes and he hit the door to his bench and went clean through....he broke a couple of ribs and his thigh bone....good for that ice hole...never saw him play another game again....

[BadTrip]

That Scott Stevens was allowed to continue playing after all those is a complete mystery.

[mentalhazord]

That was hockey in the 90's. The game has moved away from hits like that now to try and better protect players from concussions.

[daniel sarn]

lol what are you talking about? Stevens only has 2 bad hits, Lindross and Kariya, the rest are bone crunching and pretty clean particularly for the 90's. People act like he is Raffi Torres or some shit.

[Steven Chang]

@daniel sarn Even the hit on Lindross was clean, he went to check him and hit him with his shoulder, not his elbow. Kariya was an illegal interference hit. That one I agree was not called for.

[John S]

Yeah…always a good idea to “defend” your teammate who received a cheap shot by starting a fight over his unconscious body!

[what962]

At fuck 3:00 a dude straight up standing on his body in skates...

[Timurs Sņetkovs]

That's American mentality. Imagine if they had guns

[yikes]

@Timurs Sņetkovs not necessarily… it’s a sport also filled with Canadians and Europeans, really just a mentality in the sport itself.

[WeltonvilleGal]

Happens quite a lot……

[Joe A]

I thought the same thing... Dude could be dying for all anybody knows, but instead of making sure he gets quick medical attention, we fight literally on top of his unconscious body....

[Ava and Maddie’s Adventure Time]

You forgot Chris Neil’s hit on Chris Drury. The catalyst for one of the greatest line brawls of all time!

[Adam Shearer]

how was Cooke not banned from the NHL

[Samuel Heard]

Loved Scott stevens back in the day, but now knowing the devastating nature of headshots I have to revisit my opinion of him and say he was a filthy dirty player. No words for marchment and samuelsson , just ogres.

[John Jeffers]

15:10 the infamous Scott Steven hit on Kariya is a tough one to call. I would agree with the commentator - "guys, that's interference." the puck was gone, and while Steven *was* in the act of throwing a hit, he could and should have aborted the hit, which would have led to a sort of awkward collision sort of hit, but not an absolute plow through. then again i realize that, at live speed, it's hard for Stevens to change his mind in a millisecond. Still, I think he could have laid off at the last second, which would have avoided the concussion to Paul Kariya (it is very much in the NHL's interest to protect their skill players, the guys who sell tickets)

[Brad s]

Some of these hits were legal body checks at the time, they would be punished severely if they did them now. I still don’t know how char’s didn’t get suspended for that pacioretty hit.

[Spencer Anderson]

The fact that Cooke wore an A in Pittsburgh is such a joke.

[Russ S]

And don't think that a lot of us Pens fans weren't disgusted both by that, and all the BS that Cooke did on the ice.

[Cryonic Crusader]

Wouldn't be the first time a known dirty player had a letter. Crap, Dale Hunter was Washington's *captain* for five seasons! And he was a very dirty player.

[valeri bajer]

Us pens fans dont claim him. All time league disgrace.

[Tam Time]

Same with Raffi Torres getting an A in SJ

[gfear24]

Stevens on Kariya was 100% a clean hit. Kariya was admiring his pass and Stevens nailed him for it.

[david mather]

The Hossa and Horton hits basically cut their careers short. The pile up after the Downey hit could have been alot worse for the Ottawa player you can see skate blades right on his head..poor Modano the paramedics drop him on concrete while strapped to the stretcher...the Neely hit shortened his career same as Kariya and Lindros

[Rob Birse]

Anytime I see Matt Cooke laid out...I smile.

[Chris Lilly]

As an ice hockey player since 1968 on the organized and unorganized level I can categorically state that intentionally hitting an opposing player from behind and to the head is unethical, unfair and an extremely dangerous action. It is really the equivalent of attacking somebody from behind with a weapon. This comes from years of my own hockey player experience on the ice. Being hacked, hit, hooked, slashed and speared from behind is not fun nor safe and can be painfully crippling! Watching these ice hockey highlights of impulsive overaggressive unlawful physical contact makes one grimace!

[Brandon R.]

If I am not mistaken, that Keith hit on Sedin sidelined Sedin for the first and only time in his entire 1000+ game career for more than 1 game consecutively.

[Zypher13X]

“Frankly I don’t even know if Marchand was aware of Johansson” As he reaches out with his elbow

[Gibbs1991]

Dont worry.. Jack Edwards is blind to everything that Bruins does to other players

[Captain Bonefrog]

That hit wasn't even the worst thing he's done. Just ask Jarry

[MKZ3003]

@Captain Bonefrog Penguins fan here. Jarry is fine. It was a dirty punch, but the check had the actual possibility to hurt someone.

[Kane Garvey]

@Captain Bonefrog Jarry got off easy compared to alot of other people Marchand has hit. I'm a die hands Bruins fan too lol

[John Schauder]

A lot of people don’t even realize that a lot of those older head shots were legal at the time. It wasn’t until the 2010-11 season that a rule was made making it illegal to target the head or have the head be the principal point of contact. Those were crazy times. A lot more fighting too.

[Fadaar]

the NFL and NHL got wise to it finally, though the NFL maybe a little too much with some of the extremely lame QB calls we see

[Savvy tadpole]

15:43 as a leafs fan that’s a dirty hit he didn’t even look at the puck it was charging and he elbowed him in the head

[RL ETC]

as a lacrosse player which is kinda like hockey i have seen a lot of injuries but not as bad as this. about last year i was at a tournament that my team ended up winning, and this one team was just fouling all over the place, this one kid was on the ground for 10 minutes everyone was worried i don’t know what happened but all i know is it look intentional.

[StonedWallGoat]

The classic lemiux hit that led to one of the most intense rivalry in the history of sports and the famous fight night at the joe.

[Kevin Brooks]

Boy that second hit was dirty as hell , these players are going around 35 to 40 miles per hour great video. But if you notice the guy that gets hit is usually the guy that is a game changer

[Lee Rogers]

Nah that medic didn’t just drop that dude on the ground 😂

[Thomas Garza]

Why is no one in the comments addressing this??

[Jay Kay]

Literally looked like some shit from the WWE lol

[Timurs Sņetkovs]

Where

[The Hutch]

🤣🤣

[DeepSubmerge]

@Timurs Sņetkovs 7:00

[Tyy Ferrone]

That bure hit on churla was so out of nowhere 😂😂

[Sargaas]

It was in retaliation for a hit that Churla did on Bure previously

[Jack Handy]

How Dale Hunter was allowed back in the league is beyond me. That hit after Turton scored was one of the worst ever because the play is dead after a goal and he went head hunting. When the Caps hired him as a coach I wanted blood.

[Viperatech]

The Claude Lemieux one was a war crime.

[snipewa4]

Can tell the difference between who’s trying to finish their check and make a nice big clean hit and who’s actively making a conscious decision to hurt someone…those are the ones that make my stomach turn

[Tomcat Thompson]

I think you could argue every hit comes with the intention to hurt. Not severely in every case but definitely cause some damage

[casartherandom]

So most of these are absolutely dirty hits. It pretty much comes down to where and how they're hit.

[Yakiv Popavich]

Good old time hockey, some hard checks and hits.

[Kombalar 2112]

Dale Hunter was one of the dirtiest players ever. Hits on Turgeon and Murphy were among the most cowardly in the NHL history.

[Jon Stanger Jazz]

There are several dirty hits here. However, back in the 1970's & 1980's this was common - as were fights. I remember when most players didn't even wear helmets. Many goalies didn't wear masks! Take a look at some older NHL footage and you will see violence on another level.

[Breanne Wines]

Seeing as I’m a massive Hoss fan, I figured that hit was gonna be on here. Damn I miss watching him play 😢

[Jamshooter79]

I can imagine how McDavid would be attacked like this in our time.

[Dan Lapidus]

Hot take: the Steve Moore hit on Naslund wasn't that bad. Certainly not deserving of what came after it

[Balls In-holes]

I can’t imagine getting hit on the ice, like your being hit on a football field

[Guin B]

I've watched and played hockey for years. I love the sport. With that said...there is absolutely no place in the game for a dirty hit. The rule should be changed. If a player misses games due to a dirty hit...the b***h that caused the injury shall miss the same amount of time. Keep the game fast, competitive, physical and clean.

[Erik L]

I'm 27 and just recently got into hockey. As a someone who loves physical sports, I would of loved to play hockey growing up. I wouldn't love getting hit anything similar to people in these videos

[Dane]

@Erik L yes hockey is the best sport!! Unfortunately though if you played as a kid you would deal with MANY dirty players. That's how i broke my collar bone when i was 15, the hit was so late that the ref didn't even see (puck was down in other teams end and i was still in my own defensive zone, i had passed the puck up ice). Incidents/injuries like this made local leagues here in Canada raise the age for hitting. Because of stupid people. Some young teens just play to hit, instead of playing good hockey and taking opportunities when they come, and knowing when to back off. It really always comes down to the player though in my opinion, raising the age made no difference. In fact i think it might have made it worse since teenagers were mad they had to wait longer to hit, and then they would hit even more dirty. But yea hockey is awesome and i still played after the break but i absolutely cannot stand dirty players! No player making an NHL salary should ever make dirty hits like the ones in this video, they should be banned and have their contracts terminated

[turnerjazz]

@Dane My son's been playing 5 years now and the single biggest problem is refs who won't call the dirty hits and leagues that won't enforce any real discipline. When kids figure out they can elbow kids in the head right in front of the ref and not even get a penalty, they learn to be dirty.

[yourstrulyforever7]

love this comment bro

[Edamnaf]

and who decides 'dirty hit'? YOU? Don't make me laugh.

[William Fischer]

That one hit single handedly ruined Nathan Horton’s career. That defenseman should be charged.

[funnyman 007]

The Mike Modano clip had me dead, can't make this shit up 💀😂😂😂

[Lt Col. Henry Blake]

Stevens’ hit on Kariya was suspension-worthy. Very late hit, targeting the head. On top of that, shoulder pads at that time were built more like football pads - it’s a wonder Kariya stayed in the game.

[C Dub]

You know it’s a bad lick when the rigor mortis kicks in before your body lands on the ice!

[TD Thib]

As a Flyers fan, even I knew that hit was uncalled for.

[Charles Richardson]

There's a difference between a hard hit when you catch someone lacking, and a dirty hit. Happens quick

[juhos3000]

Big difference between huge hit to head and huge hit to shoulder to shoulder. The other can destroy your life

[Idk Idk]

@juhos3000 people also lower there head trying to get around others

[Charles Richardson]

@juhos3000 it's natural for people to dip their head right before impact, you see it in football all the time so yeah, it happens quick. Hit somebody in the head doesn't make it dirty, it's the intention behind the hit.

[David Bartz]

The difficult part is that so many people extend their legs through the hit which means if the timing is off then you're taking the guy's head off even if you didn't intend to.

[turnerjazz]

If you aim at their head on purpose, it's a dirty hit. Period.

[William]

Gary Suter’s cross check to Paul Kariya’s head after a goal is the most blatant cheap shot ever.

[norm]

This is brutal stuff, I love it! Being an Aussie I don’t know the rules regarding what is legal and illegal when taking out your opponent

[WhatsY0UTUB3]

in the current era any contact with the opponents head while you are hitting them in illegal. a lot of the older clips from an older era did not have this rule. scott stevens is a good example - the hit at 15:05 was considered clean when he did it. nowadays he'd be suspended 20 games probably

[Richard Hahn]

Scott Stevens literally got away with murder, especially against Lindross, he concussed him multiple times, and he never actually hit him with his shoulder. It was the elbow/forearm every time. He singlehandedly shortened his career.

[Henry McNeil]

Always the shoulder lol. Steven's was one of the cleanest hitters in the NHL. Only ones whovever thought otherwise were the ones weren't devils fans

[Patrick McCullough]

If you don’t think Scott Stevens was head hunting, you’re kidding yourself

[david menhart]

The Boston announcer covering for Marchand😂 some of the biggest homers ever

[JohnDoe]

When guys like Tom Wilson, Matt Cooke, Raffi Torres, Dale Hunter get what they have coming you don’t shed a tear.

[Spencer O'Neill]

I'm in my lower 30s so I didn't get to see Dale Hunter but mannnn he sure belongs in the same breath as Cooke and Torres that's for sure.

[Edward M]

At least wilson cleaned up his act.

[Adam]

@Edward M Cleaned up his act? He got suspended last season lmao and then the Panarin incident.

[Edward M]

@Adam yeah last season

[Adam]

@Edward M not even a year has passed dude, if he doesn't do anything crazy for another year then I will admit that he has cleaned up his act.

[SMG41]

1:09 and so started one of the greatest rivalries in nhl history, and also one of the best line brawls.

[Moo]

The Neely knee on knee I feel like might be dirty even for the era. The Kariya hit I'm on the fence about and the Lindros hit I feel was probably clean for the time.

[Jackson]

The Kariya hit was borderline? Oh, I forgot they didn't have an interference call back then

[Marcus Compton]

Can a great skater go faster than a great runner? My God this is a brutal sport!!

[Bauer CA]

God the sound of that pacioretty hit is absolutely brutal, you can hear the force that he took from that hit

[Ayy Lmao]

bell centre is a poverty barn. Should've been fixed 20 years ago

[Alexander Jordan 1994]

Personally I think the worst one was the dude who pushed the dude into the subs bit who then smashed his head/face

[Baulder13]

What Kariya could have become is so depressing. He would dominate in todays game. Man was ahead of his time.

[sharpy 345]

imagine him playing now, and stevens around to rock marchands world lol

[Chef]

still had a great career

[Ted McForehead]

he wasn't anywhere near the best player in the nhl in any of his seasons

[DeusVult]

No he wouldn't. He was good for the time but today? He would be mediocre. You're like one of those people that think Gretzky would be any good today too.

[Ted McForehead]

@DeusVult If Gretzky was born in 1997 he would be scoring 170-180 points per season.

[TangoThomas05]

The fact that I don't watch nhl and still know that Cooke was a very dirty player from the amount of times I heard his name in this video lol

[jkbrill]

I am not an NHL official, but a few of these clips look like clean hits. I saw a solid hip check and an open ice hit leading with the shoulder that connected with a puck carrier who had their head down. I followed hockey more in the 90s than I do today, but a few of these hits don’t look dirty to me. That isn’t to say that I’m today’s NHL they may not be illegal.

[Sora Nakamura]

not many of these hits are clean. maybe less than 1%. blindside hits are always dirty, no matter if the rules allow it or not.

[Nhamp2000]

The sequence at 2:25. Wow. Fighting on top of an unconscious player.

[Tom The Bomb]

The hit that bothers me the most is what Scott Stevens did to Paul Kariya...Totally unessessary ...Kariya will probably stroke out later in life from that hit...

[Braden Smith]

props to the teammates who dont wait to fight the dirty player. they just go up and drop the gloves right away.

[Asterix Obelix]

Thank you for the compilation. I appreciate clean hits, but detest dirty cheap shots that is intentionally trying to hurt players. These abusers do not belong in the game of hockey. After one incident, these abusers cannot be allowed to cause any more incidents and if they do then ban them from hockey. 3 dirty players stand out; Matt Cooke, Scott Stevens and Brad Marchand. They should be ashamed of themselves.

[Zach Hamm]

Exactly - Separate the man from the puck. If the separation results in big clean hit, great. But TRYING to hurt players, suspensions generally aren't long enough.

[turnerjazz]

@Zach Hamm NHL player safety commission is a joke.

[Zach Hamm]

Lindros is my favorite player so this is tough to admit but based on the rules at the time Steven's was clean (at then time) Imo Matt Cooke and Dale Hunter are the dirtiest players to play the game. They both had some talent though (Hunter had a lot, Cooke could have been okay but choose to be a goon).

[PYLrulz1984]

And with Scott Stevens, there are people that still look up to him as a hitter.

[anlacombe]

Some players are definitely cheapshot artists, but generally how dirty a hit is depends on who gets hit and who does the hitting, a star player will usually get the benefit of the doubt while the other player gets blamed for a dirty hit or not keeping their head up on the ice. Teams matter too, for example, maple leafs announcers were always ready to say a habs player was dirty, but put that same player in a leafs jersey and suddenly they became a tough gritty player who plays hard, the maple leafs announcers were no worse than other teams announcers its just an example

[20alphabet]

Players who do this crap should be criminally charged. Why they get away with it is beyond me, and the fact that they do is evidence of corruption.