The Origin of "Potvin Sucks"

[2coolbrosand1coolsis]

how old was he

[spyagents1011]

this is why ranger fans are douchebags. they make up a chant about a guy who goes down in the hall of fame as one of the best defensman in the nhl ever.second, they complain that the hit was dirty... wanna see a dirty hit? look up dale hunters hit on pierre turgeon. and we dont whine about it and make a chant about how he sucks.the islanders 1979-1983 team will go down as one of the greastest dynastys in sports history and all the rangers have is a cup in the twenties and two others...and dont

[leafyutube]

The ice time leader on a 4 time Stanley Cup champion. Certainly one of the best defencemen of all time.

[XD638]

POTVIN SUCKS!!!

[2222jrg]

What is wrong with Denis Potvin?

[SuperHockeykid7]

@2222jrg th rangers would of won a cup that year with there best player was nilsson then potvin hit him and rapidly ended his career injuring him

[tomdabom713]

Whens the last time the islanders saw the playoffs and even above the last two spots in their division? Now look at them last place and look at the apparent rangers who suck so bad with the best record in the nhl...

[russianrings]

@tomdabom713 maybe of the season there buddy, rangers suck balls..original 6 and 4 cups? i'd be ashamed if i were you..

[MrSportsFanatic1]

Islanders haven't won shit in forever they can't even fix their arena it is a crumbling dump

[hockeyguy2424]

Hey Rangers fans if Potvin sucks than answer the following questions: 1. Why does he have 4 Stanley Cup rings? 2. Why is he in the Hall of Fame? He ended the career of a 3rd line defencman. It was a clean hit, if you watch the tape. It's not like he ended a star players career, if he did that than I could see chanting Potvin Sucks.

[xGunslinger7x]

hahahaha jealous baby ranger fans this is just embarrassing I hope you don't tell other people this story ranger fans hahahaha LETS GO ISLANDERS POTVIN RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!

[kmducks724]

BLINDSIDE HIT

[TheKillerShmoo]

POTVIN SUCKS!!!!!!!

[Envelope86]

Perfectly legal hit.

[ChrisDutch]

@Envelope86 Absolutely

[nyisles5]

potvins cups!

[ward9590]

@media401 haha spell " no " correct next time and you wont get as many thumbs

[BiggaMan1994]

wow you isle fans are quite bitter huh.... lol

devils suck, isles swallow

[19twoody]

@BiggaMan1994 o the rangers are real nasty right?

[BiggaMan1994]

@19twoody scoreboard buddy.....who's top of the conference?

[NYI914021]

clean hit

[23snacKs]

@NYI914021 obviously not a clean hit rofl.

[okposo21tavares91]

First off, how can a man who won 4 straight cups, suck? Not one Rangers player has won 4 cups while with the Rangers, forget about consecutively. Secondly, for all you comical Rangers fans making comments about the playoffs, we made it the 06-07 year which honestly was not SO long ago. If you want to talk about playoffs, look at your own team. Last 3 years you've finished 7th, missed the playoffs, 8th. You guys should be ashamed to have the caliber talent you have and not make the playoffs!

[GaryBoy54]

No it was another soft fat bellied Ranger that hit the deck and crumbled from a hit 99% of NHL`ers took back then and got up like men.

Cheap? Hardly.

But glad its immortalized Potvin with all Ranger fans.

The greatest thing to hear is their stupid chant so many years later.

Its a chant of AGONY!

[spazemunky]

Potive was the best. eat your hearts out Rags fans.

[steven4rmnewyork]

yeah potvin sucks sure..he crushed every one of orr record surpasses him as the best defensemen with most point most goals most assist most playoffs points as a defensemen

[NYRangersHockey77]

@steven4rmnewyork HAHAHAHAHA POTVIN IS BETTER THAN ORR? really? some would argue to this day that orr is the best ever to play the game, so what you're saying is that potvin is the greatest of all time? god thats funny..

[steven4rmnewyork]

@NYRangersHockey77 potvin retired as the best defense men to play he not only surpassed orr's every record he demolished them

[ripelcannon]

@steven4rmnewyork Potvin had to play over 400 more games then Orr to do so. If Orr's knee hadn't given out, he would have set even higher standards that people like Potvin would never be able to surpass.

Orr > Potvin

[steven4rmnewyork]

@ripelcannon MUST BE ONE OF THOSE BOSTON FANS WHO HONESTLY BELIEVES THERE WAS A DYNASTY OR SOMETHING OF THAT SORT IN BOSTON i FEEL SORRY FOR YOU. JUST LET IT GO MAN POTVIN NOT IS THE BEST DEFENSEMEN TO EVER PLAY BUT HE PLAYED ON THE GREATEST HOCKEY TEAM TO EVEN HIT THE ICE. SO JUST LET IT GO GO BACK TO THE BAAAAAAAR AND HAVE A DRINK YOUR IRISH SCUM FUCK LOL

[jaystryker25]

Not the worse chant Ive heard about Potvin.... "Buy a Porsche Potvin, Buy a Porsche" that was worse

[XxEPICgaming101xX]

I honestly don't understand why Potvin's banner is on top of the Nassau Coloseum... He honestly does suck, I don't recall him even getting a penalty for that did he? FUCK YOU POTVIN!

[intrepidv6]

IT WAS CLEAN LMFAOO

[tonyeye1]

And the last time the Ass-landers mader the playoffs was???

Playoffs?

Playoffs?

[MikehMike01]

Ranger fans... u jelly?

[destructopoo]

Yeah stupid that was a shoulder to the head, charging, and just an asshole move. That's why potvin sucks

[dd9s]

That was actually one of Potvin's few clean checks. There were very few though by today's or yesterday's standards.

[Category5PHL]

Wow, that was a clean hit.

[MrPetepetepetepete]

I had heard of the hit since about the early 80's when I became a Ranger fan. Chanted Potvins sucks at the games. I finally saw it and...OH COME ON. He may well have been hit by a summer breeze. What a disappointment. Anyone who ever saw that hit should feel like a little school girl if they chant that at any Ranger game again.

[Restaurantster]

thats my dad. #11... He claims the Rangers retired his number hahahahaha

[fastfootedone]

that was probably one of the weaker hits of Potvin's career.....Nilsson just wasn't a sturdy guy.....lol

[farleydbear]

Clean hit. Ulf was a powderpuff

[insanehockeyfan]

All rangers fans relax. The Islandicks will be relocated soon enough, but the chant lives on BABY. POTVIN SUCKS!!!!!!!!

[tvtvrain]

FUCK THE ISLANDERS THEY CAN SUCK MY BALLS!!!!!!!

[dlr1241]

@media401 soft hit. The plexiglass is not made out of Mallomars pal.

[chrisisitalian]

Potvin sucks( LEs GO Rangers!!!!!!!!!!!!)

[mrceebees14]

To the idiot Ranger fans that don't know, Ulf Nilsson admitted that it was a clean hit which it was.



[TheSalonBiz]

lmfao! media, the hit is being shown in slow motion! Though it is time to stop the chant and move on.



[rockstar6488]

niggerS????



[grr61594]

the islanders could all fuck off cuz they got shit on the rangers

[Pika740]

Rangers are a joke. They have won four cups since they came into the league around eighty years ago?

While the Islanders have the same amount of cups in half the amount of time.

While the Islanders are getting better (slowly) the Rangers are getting worse.

But for now (as an Isles fan) I can fully say we're both joke teams right now. xfd

[southplnk]

@Pika740 & for 40 years the rangers had to only compete with 5 other teams 

1994 is the new 1940 lighthouse 2015?

[Pika740]

@southplnk

What are you saying? I cannot understand you.

[jjdog202]

@Pika740 agreed both jokes but hey lets go rangers

[jshkendra]

It was a clean hit. Well maybe if the rangers would have drafted right like taking Mr. Mike Bossy instead of Ron ohh la la sason dugay they might have won a cup before 1994. The Islanders did it mostly through the draft. The 94 team might as well have been the Edmonton Oilers 6th cup because that is who that team was made up off!!!!! Prove me wrong Ranger Fans!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[bayardguy]

@jshkendra Being a NYR fan I'd like to tell you to go fuck yourself. But I cant your 100% right on all three parts. NYR turned down a reported deal with Vancouver for Cam Neely for Dugay trade. The entire NYR draft staff should be shot Malhotra, Stewart, Blackburn, Lundmark, Brendl, all garbage #1 picks. And '94 was Leetch/Richter and the Oil's.

But I do have to thank Mike Milbury and the lack luster fan base for destroying the Isle's.

[jshkendra]

@bayardguy Well it is a great rivalry we just need a new arena. They are a good young team. THe games between them have been unforgetable and great for hockey. We won some we lost some.

[bayardguy]

@jshkendra Funny story about Potvin and Butch Goring told by Bryan Trottier you can find it on youtube. The tag is 1050's lunch with a legend bryan trottier.

It was an interview with Barry Melrose and some fans, kind of like a meet and greet sort of thing. Skip to about 21:10 tell me if Potvin was disliked by some of his mates or is Butch just nuts, you be the judge.

[NYISLES2191]

imagine if Potvin went all out on that guy? You thought he was hurt before....

[ReaganSmash360]

Owned

Rangers always have and always will be a bunch of Pussy's.

[asstcommish]

beat your wife Barry beat your wife is the proper response to this

[FinanceLoans]

When Flyers coach Pat Quinn called the Rangers "smurfs," the Rangers took it personally, skated circles around the Flyers, and eliminated his team of big bad Broad street bullies. There's something to be said about so much speed and agility that the fiercest body checkers can't touch. There's also something to be said about name calling. Just ask Wayne Gretzky, who called the Devils a "Mickey Mouse Operation" after the Oilers destroyed NJ 10-3. The Devs came back and beat the Oilers 5-4.

[devilspjh]

I love how they complain about that clean hit

[cowboyzsuk81]

@devilspjh exactly fucking ranger fans are fags

[SuperHockeykid7]

@cowboyzsuk81 oh so why are they second in the league?

[maskedmn]

@devilspjh i love even more how devils fans use that chant to say "rangers suck", even at games theyre not playing the rangers.....smh

[leafyutube]

Potvin has said the chant is really, "Potvin's Cups". Haha!

[leafyutube]

Growing up at that time, I saw first hand you had to watch it with Potvin. When he hit you, he destroyed you. His huge offensive numbers were a bonus.

[ghytgb]

ranger fans started the "potvin sucks" cry the next year and at the end of that yr potvin raised the cup. potvin went on to raise 4 straight cups and walk into the hall of fame as the greatest defensive player and leader in his era. what really sucks is winning 4 cups over an 82 yr period and one cup during a 69 yr stretch!

[ilara72]

That hit looks clean. Compare that to the "clean" hit Scott Stevens put on Eric Lindros.

[seanbonjovi8]

This hit, as well as the Stevens hit on Lindros, were both clean. Ranger fans are delusional. So are Flyer fans for that matter.

[falantepelosmortos]

@ilara72 The one where Lindros was looking at his skates while crossing the blue line? Like every other fucking hit he got smacked down with?

[Spifftone]

lol....Potvin sucks....yeah, right...

When even the mighty Bobby Orr speaks glowingly of Potvin, you know Rangers fans were just jealous he never played for their sorry ass team and franchise.

[GOODPLAYA20]

I don't know about you guys, but my dad told me about Potvin getting into trouble of hitting his wife, and I like the cheer people came up with for that a lot better

"BEAT YOUR WIFE POTVIN, BEAT YOU WIFE!!"

[courtbian89]

potvin does suck.. at least the islanders came up with their own retaliation "rangers suck" during a chicken dance song....reeeealll cool guys.

[WarcraftBattleChest]

Cause Potvin deff sucks right? Ohhh yea he was such a bad hockey player. Are you stupid?

[NYISLES2191]

Hmmm...the captain of a team that won 4 straight cups...ranger fans really know nothing about hockey.

[squiggybasher]

We'll keep the memory of the Islander's alive at the Garden after they move to Kansas City......Everytime we chant "Potvin Sucks"! Keep gushing about Tavares out there, he'll score about 35 goal this season, and about 400 in a Kansas City jersey. HAHAHA! We'll miss fucking with him, Kyle "Buckwheat" Okposo & Josh "Beetle" fucking Bailey to!

[11DNA11]

I'd definately be lmao if the Islanders had to move out of NY xD Then the bitter islander fans would turn out to be like the current Hartford Whaler fans :D

[doublexnchuck]

@11DNA11

let me tell u something. do u want this rivalry to end? besides they will most likely end up in queens or suffolk

[NYISLES2191]

Its because they are threatened by us because all of the guys we have in the farms system that will be 10x better than the idiots they have now.

[cuzziman84]

"Buckwheat" Okposo- LMAO he does look a little slow.

[mrceebees14]

Racist.

He is a hell of a player, better then most of the overpriced Rangers who probably won't make the playoffs.

[NYISLES2191]

Agreed 100% He does so much more than their ahole captain.

Hey Rags lemme know when Hank's done pmsing.

[mrceebees14]

He doesn't look like Buckwheat at all actually.

I am sure you would never say this to his face...........punk.

[monkeyboy228]

POTVIN SUCKS!!!

[mrbob424]

i was at this game and it happened right by me and yes to this day i still say it was a dirty hit.

[zzret41]

Guys, being a ranger fan all of my life, I agree that this was a clean hit. Rangers fans are just having some fun. All rangers haters, stfu

[Spifftone]

Funniest thing about it all is, Potvin does not suck . He's one of th best defensemen to ever play the game. Too bad Rangers fans will never get it. They don't understand the game anyway.

[danb8949]

potvin sucks

[ghytgb]

the most pathetic CRY in all of sports! every team has lost a player but ranger fans are the only single team in sports that CRIES about even though it happened 30 YEARS AGO! waaaaaaaaaaa waaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[11DNA11]

LOL! Islanders had a tradition also...

"1940" and that happened 54 years earlier. Btw, when are the Islanders gonna win a cup again?

[ghytgb]

how would i know? do you know when teams will win the cup? you should go to vegas!

[Nyi28nhl]

Nilson has publicly said that the hit was clean. Just sayin'...

[mrceebees14]

Potvin's cups.

[NewYorkRangers1926]

Beat your wife Potvin, Beat your Wife.

[mrceebees14]

Beat the Ranger's Potvin did.

That is why he is still your daddy.

[jjdog202]

@mrceebees14 you mean sucks, the NYI are irrelevant no one would care if you won 20 cups your still NYs other team

[mrceebees14]

@jjdog202 No, I mean cups.

As in he has as many Stanley Cup rings on his hand as the Rangers have in their entire exsistence of 85 years.

In fact, when he won that 4th cup, the Rangers had only won 3 up to that point. It would take you losers another 15 years to catch up.

4 cups in 11 years (1972-1983) compared to a pitiful 4 cups in 68 years (1926-1994)

The Rangers play in NYC, of course they are going to get top billing, but you are still losers, the numbers above DON'T lie bitch.

[atlkovalchuk]

clean hit...if ranger fans are saying potvin sucks over a clean hit then what should the rest of the league say about avery...

[NewYorkRangers1926]

This would actually make sense if you could find 1 dirty avery hit.

[WarcraftBattleChest]

His hit on tim thomas, classic

[NewYorkRangers1926]

A love tap to the back of the helmet is dirty? Really? Ok then, every player in the NHL is dirty. Well, according to your logic, everyone is.

[WarcraftBattleChest]

The point is that he's a douche. Most Ranger fans would even agree that he's a classic retard that takes away from the Rangers more then he contributes. He never fights he just starts shit then pussies out and makes the Rangers look like a bunch of pussies.

[mypianoheadcase]

how do u spell the guys name which potvin hit

[vargaha]

ulf nielson

[jackvenom1]

I believe it was Ulf Nilsson

[OhEmGeeItsDomC]

shut up. Last place must make fans bitter.

[WarcraftBattleChest]

We'll take that draft pick thank you very much, you can have fun with Callahan and Dubinsky as well as the rest of your crappy players.

[intrepidv6]

ahahaah like brashier lol rangers suck i agree wit ya

[11DNA11]

Knowing the Islanders and their prospects, you'll be trading Tavares in 2 years, because "he isn't what we expected him to be".. Like Chara, Bertuzzi, Palffy and Spezza (yes, Spezza was picked with the Islanders nr 1 pick, which they traded for Alexei Yashin)

[WarcraftBattleChest]

Haha unlike Chara Bertuzzi Palffy and Spezza Tavares is a number 1 overall pick and also Chara did shit for us so did Bertuzzi.

[goisles]

And still, ignorant Rag fans don't even know why they whistle Potvin Sux at the garden. They just blindly yell it 20 times a game because everyone else does. Rag fans are some of the stupidest in hockey.

[Hinaku670]

what was a clean hit and i've hit people harder than that and they get up. the rangers are the ones who suck!

[CtrlRm]

POTVIN SUCKS!!