Rick Dudley vs Ray Bourque - Terry O'Reilly

[nightintheruts617]

NICE POST

[Monponsett]

Dudley Do-Fight

[ichoadius]

Don't get too crazy about Ray Bourque. The guy that broke his jaw was 5' 6" and weighed over 50 lbs less than Ray. Bourque was in the playoffs 21 times, but had to leave his team to get a courtesy cup handed to him by Joe Sakic, Peter Forsberg and Patrick Roy. Mario Lemieux stole the puck from Bourque and scored in his 1st NHL shift. It's not like Bourque is Bobby Orr. He's not even as good as Paul Coffey, who had a better point per game average and won 4 cups with 2 different teams.

[chucknoblock]

Rick Dudley was a fighter and he clearly lost. And seriously, did you really think that the Boston Bruins were going a Stanley Cup in the 80's or 90's. They didn't even had a team. The offense was called Neely and the defense Bourque. For the Coffey case, did he won the cup with courtesy of Gretzky, Messier, Kuri, Lemieux, Francis and Jagr? Your comment is totally stupid!

[GregGumbel]

Bourque is definitely better than Coffey. Coffey scored more points but his defense was average or even below average most of the years he played. Bourque did it all. and lol Coffey won 4 cups with Wayne Gretzky and Mario Lemieux. Nobody could do it on their own, not Gretz, not Mario, not Howe, not Orr. They all had great players with them for their cups. Bourque did not.

[BoSoxnation1972]

@GregGumbel Actually Bourque had more points than Coffey. He scored more goals AND had more assistes, not to mention the fact that he was 10 times the defensive player that Coffey was. The one thing Coffey did better than Bourque was skating. Coffey is one of the greatest skaters of all time. He hadspeed and finesse.

[gymguy25]

@ichoadius Coffey had a better point per game average, true, but he got to play with a couple of guys you may have heard of that were named Wayne and Mario for crying out loud! After Coffey was traded away from the Penguins, he was far ahead of Bourque in points. From this moment on, Bourque, who never got to play with Gretzky or Lemieux just kept scoring at his pace and Coffey's pace went way down and that's why Bourque retired with more points than Coffey in the end.

[gymguy25]

@ichoadius One more thing, in person and online, I've conversed with several people who hate the Bruins and several people who hate French Canadians and you're still the only human being I've ever heard claiming that Coffey was better than Bourque.

[kda5]

@ichoadius Coffey is somewhere in the later end of a top 10 list of all-time defensemen. Not in Bourque's class though. I don't care about PPG average as much as I care about playing defense from that spot. Coffey was a slightly above average defender, at best.

[ggtrains]

Bourque did real well...thanks Mike.

[peytree123]

rick dudleys my cousin! go rick

[micholuk4orr]

I never new Bourque could fight like that!

[BoSoxnation1972]

Bourque was VERY tough until he stopped fighting because he was so valuable. He beat the shit out of a Red Wing Dennis Polonich but had his jaw broken in the fight because Dennis landed a shot early and Bourque pounded him down. Bourque beat Mel Bridgeman and Kim Clackson before he was ordered not to fight anymore. His only loss his first 2 years that I remember was to Willie Plett who was tough as hell. He lost in the ensuing years because he no longer fought.

[FlyerFan9]

Easy now...i just watched the Bourque/Bridgeman fight and pretty safe to say Bourque was on the wrong end of that one.  And i wouldn't say he beat the shit out of Polonich either. Bourque is a legend tho and i had no clue he could fight as good as he did.

[BoSoxnation1972]

Bourque dropped Bridgeman on his ass with a punch, and Bridgeman got up and kept going and was getting the better of the 2nd half of the fight...but Bourque dropped him with a punch, which is a rarity in hockey.

He POUNDED Polonich down to the ice. It was a TKO win for Ray.

Hell Bourque beat Rick Dudley too in a close fight.

[putingtine]

Bourque was the best all around player of all time.The man had no weaknesses.I feel truly grateful to have watched him from day one of his career.Only two things have brought tears to my eyes as an adult:the birth of my daughter and Ray lifting the Cup.

[PARAG4UNITY]

I was a Indo-Canaidian Habs Fan growing up, however out of all the tough all round players, Bourque was CLASS. He played clean, hit and fought clean. When he fought, he would take of his face visor, to give a fairnes in a fight for the opposing fighter. Thats class and thats leadership. Any player would follow a leader like him.

To me and many others, he is one of the Greatest. Hats of Bourque for giving us great hockey memories.

[TheRealDerfMan]

@PARAG4UNITY ...well said... I'm also a Habs fan, and growing up in the 80's, it was very easy to hate the Bruins. But it was definitely hard to hate Ray Bourque. Definitely one of the greatest defencemen ever, or at least that I got to see play.

[boston487744]

Ray Bourque was tough as hell. He fought a lot his first couple of years, but had his Jaw broken in his 2nd year in a fight with Dennis Polonich. After that the coaches told him not to drop the gloves unless he had no choice.

[drthmstrbtr]

didnt know that he had his jaw broke

I bet Polonich's bitch ass goes to shitty bars on the weekend, claiming he broke ray's jaw

lol

[cptjrkov]

YEAH BOURQUE

ew never knew he could throw dahn like that!

[dadblair]

GOOD FIGHTS