Blues vs. Rangers 1979

[uwique]

i remeber this kinda hockey when i was a kid,,these bench clearing brawls would happen so often,i would get bored watching it..lol..imagine if this happened now,,it would make front page news.

[StevenFallonOfficial]

Doogs running after Nicky to make sure he was OK, as Jim Gordon said. People sometimes forget that Doogs was pretty badass and NEVER turned down a challenge to a fight.

[LimeZYX]

0:47 You hear a fan (likely beneath water) yelling something at Durbano. Can anyone make out what it is?

[winyguy]

I remember this game.

[1FuckerMother]

February 21 1979, Blues 3 @ Rangers 7. Brian Sutter scored all 3 Blues goals.

[jerome3151]

Does anyone know who won the game?

[ChrisDutch]

You know this kind of chaos gets ridiculous after a while. Better that Fotiu and Durbano handle this on their own at center ice. I think Fotiu was a more solid and stable player. Durbano was just nuts.

[TheTzdope]

I admit this was crap!

But the chaos was exciting and the fans ate it up!!

[DustyDinkleman26]

Starring around 2:19 THIS IS HOCKEY!...TAKE ALL THE VISOR WEARING PUSSIES OUTTA THE GAME KEEP THE GAME AMERICAN AND CANADIAN SO WE CAN HAVE MORE AWESOME BRAWLS LIKE THIS...THIS IS NOT AN OUTCRY FOR VIOLENCE...THERES NOTHING WRONG WITH A GOOD OLE SCRAPS AND BRAWLS

[uiwqe]

@ismes 73??LOL..this was 1979

[albanypjm]

this grabage is not good for the sport. i don't care what some canadian clown from upper manitoba says.

[K7TEJ]

I was at this game. best fihgt ever. We were sitting right onver the WNEW 1130 sign. BTW, it was the third time Fotiu & Durbano Danced that night.

[AEMoreira81]

What a donnybrook! Now off to watch the Durbano-Hull brouhaha.

Is that Big Whistle who is doing the lead play-by-play?

[K7TEJ]

@AEMoreira81 : Jim gordon was the Play by Play, the Big Whistle was the color. and yep, that's him.

[gtrefghuk]

HaHaHa! Old time hockey.

[villageass]

I'd like to see the Fotiu - Nystrom fight.

[jetshull]

Fotiu fights are the t-bone steak with all the trimmings, nothing like a fotiu fight and an ice cold beer, thanks for this gem.

[uiwqe]

fotiu wouldve beat the fuck out of this guy!

[uiwqe]

i think if durbano wouldve hit fotiu with that initial 1st punch,,he wouldve knocked him out.

[ekimfloom]

Ironic that Durbano was actually the 13th pick ( and second in the first round ) for the Rangers in the 1971 draft....

[Envelope86]

The famous moon is at 4:01.

[Forsure3333]

@Envelope86 I wish he had fallen on his ass. The crowd would have had the time of their life.

[eustonstn]

Durbano died way too late.

[BostonGarden]

"Durbano has been suspended at every level." Yeah Big Whistle just like....Nick Fotiu

[uiwqe]

@BostonGarden i'm a big fotiu fan,,but u right,,he did get suspended a few times,,lol

[MAHARDWAY]

Durbano - the Conrad Dobler of his profession ...

[raoab]

i was at this game it was a saturday afternoon

[NamIsIll]

this is why i loved the Nhl back in the day.

Fotiu.Durbano.Schultz .Holt,nut jobs all but man they made this sport watchable.

[rbmoon]

God bless the bad man Durbano, he was a "slap shot" character

[sussexcounty]

Nick Fotiu is what the Rangers need now. They play like pussies!

He was the best!

[rangerfreak616]

these were the days... no helmets and the old garden crowd nothin like it

[kordic1969]

those were the days! The atmosphere of the Garden was unbelieveable. It's still great, but nothing like those days.

[Gd0ubl3]

Staten Island!!

[clebo99]

How great that this is Brian Sutters 400th goal....what a way to celebrate a milestone!!!

[thelanceman]

Sounds like Jim Gordon and Bill "the Whistle" Chadwick!

[jfrankparnell]

Bingo.... Gordon's doing the play by play and the Big Whistle (a former referee) is doing the color. Probably taped off WOR - and I was probably watching this one

Durbano was one of the dirtiest

Whistle didn't hold back either - love the jab at Fred Shero (gotta love the shades indoors)

[MChelada]

Goon Hockey

[Juan5977]

Oh,and I'd love to see a video of it if anybody has it.

[Juan5977]

I saw Bob Kelly beat the crap out of Durbano at a nationally televised game between the Blues and the Flyers at the Spectrum.I think it was around March of '73. Durbano sticked the Flyers trainer and Kelly hopped over the boards and literally pounded Durbano all the way across the ice to the other side. Real crowd pleaser!

[falcngnzx2]

Today, on 02/09/2008, I am watching the Rangers vs the Flyers and the thought occurred to me, "There was a guy names "Steve" something or other who bent over at the Garden crowd after a fight" (I forgot that Nick Fotiu was involved), but I remember watching that game when I was about 15 years old (as it turns out the year is on this video confirms that).

Thank God for YOUTUBE and the folks who upload these videos. It is like bringing one's memory back from time gone past...

[timages19]

I was only seven years old when this kind of hockey was played...my god do I miss this good stuff. All the action and drama and never really knowing a game would end in two-and-half hours. There were some classic brawls between the Flyers and Rangers. Why do they have to Americanize everythimg and take all teh fighting out?

[ARAO155]

i was at this game....that was a long time ago

[hockeybooks]

the young linesman is don koharski.

i never got to see fotiu in his prime , much

by the time he joined the

"Battle of Alberta" as a Flame ,

he was near the end of his career

[rbmoon]

Durbano was definitely a charachter right out of Slap Shot

[BluesFan16]

at one point it looked like a freaking prom

[Ycjedi]

Who just scored the hat trick there?

[Tass61]

lmfao

[rrouser58]

I believe it was Brian Sutter

[201077]

I think this was '81...I remember this liek yesterday. Nicky rule sman, thye crowd loved him, especially how he used to toss pucks in the crowd after every practice. And Shero belongs in the Hall of Fame.

[dzanier]

Could be 78, 79, or 80. Cause Espo was still their and he retired before the 80-81 season.

[kingdomoftheworm]

Steve Durbano was nothing more than a punk when he played. I wanted him to catch a bad one from Fotiu.

[lextalionis2001]

I think nickie was a gold gloves boxer too

[JimR541]

Durbano was more of a goon that Dave Schultz and Tiger Williams were. He was a sick puppie. Years later he was arrested for his involvement in smuggling half a million bucks worth of cocaine into Canada.

[FischerFan]

You got it!!

Durbano was a thug and a troublemaker everywhere he went. During his WHA stint with the brawling Birmingham Bulls, where he obviously fit in all too well, he jumped off the bench to tackle Bobby Hull from behind.

This set off the second major bench-clearing between the Jets and the Bulls that season.

The Hammer and the Tiger were more notorious because they spent their careers in the NHL; but unlike Durbano, they could also score goals now and again.

[Kordic27]

Wasnt Durbano actually a fairly skilled player himself? Thats what Ive read, although he was a Dman so he wont have put up high goal totals.

[uiwqe]

do u know where i can see the fight between fotiu and schultz??i know they fought,,but i cant find it,,do u know?

[tracyterry]

Steve could score. he was a great player, but the chips fell in a way that he be a policeman on the ice, and he did a great job. he's one of my favorites!

[CCampLI]

Fotiu was not anyone to mess around with. As an Islander then and now, I remember him being one of the tougher fighters in the league. Guy was born and raised in Staten Island and lived out his dream to be a New York Ranger, so that is where his passion came from.