habs at beantown brawl under the stands

[hecksing]

Ken "the rat" Linseman should have kept his mouth shut. Nilan whacked him lol

[CountCristo729]

I believe you mean Fred Cusik (sp)

[Yahear]

Chris Nylan is THE man

[MrKillerDolphins]

Hahahaaaa!!!! Was that Patrick Roy chasing the guy down the hall!!!!?????!!!!

Awesome! Thanks for posting!

PS-Roy is one of my favs

[IJustWatchEm71]

Ah, the old-school years of hockey. Players hauling off like they want to eat each other and their families...Man, what a rush!

[mamabowa]

If Nilan would of connected with that punch...ouch

[bronxsportsfan]

This 1986 brawl was insane! I'm ranking the Top 5 NHL Brawls and this is # 2 on my list 'cause it resulted in a major change as far as where the teams' benches were located. For a long time, the visiting team's bench was on the near side of the ice right of centre ice & the Bruins's bench was on the far side. A year or 2 afterward both teams' benches had to be on the same side. [Le Forum in Montreal was also effected by this change, too.]

[waltb1684]

Can you tell this two teams don't like each other

[Catish74]

Okay, was the only path to the dressingroom for Montreal through the Boston bench ? Not too smart, if you ask me...

[newcastle1919]

not only that the coach gets a huge suspension too.

this is also the craziest fight i have ever seen!

i love it

[javelin1010]

Nilan. What a shit disturber. lol Classic Habs, Bears. Da Bears never had an iota of Montreal's talent or success nor could they goon like the Flyers or Isles. If they go to Toronto they can see the Stanley Cup for $8.50 at the Hall of Fame, same way the Maple Laffs get to see it.

[offthelinegt]

NILANNNNN!!!!!

[johnz70]

fuckin' loved nilan,the habs haven't had someone like him since he left.

[fild77]

Nilan was nothing but a pussy and petty thief

[mikeike777]

why don't teams fight like this anymore? is there a rule to not start a brawl??

[hockeybooks]

yup, first player off the bench gets 10 game suspension automatically

[ARTISTSEYE2]

RIP John Cusack.  Best hockey announcer ever!

[jdemo33]

Fred Cusick not John Cusack. And yes he was the best. 

[ottvalley]

Jay Miller---IQ of 23

[BostonGarden]

@ottvalley He's Einstein compared to you-you moron!

[habs1962]

The Rat, always better with his stick and his big mouth. Never dropped the gloves and fought. What a wuss!!!

[BostonGarden]

Hold on to your swim shorts too!

[BostonGarden]

Better hold on to your swim trunks too because Nilan might steal them. Bruins fans laughing at the Montreal HasBeens and their current team of midgets.

[marleeguy]

if your holding on to nilan keep your eyes open dummy!

[lioninwinter101]

YEA HE MIGHT STEAL YOUR BATHING SUIT!

[gfadein]

Lemieux looked like Michael Jackson in his Thriller video.

[Mortagne]

I remember this one very well ! I think there was about 80 minutes of penalty handed out ! LOL ! Imagine today !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[jayblob716]

this video makes bettman cry and curl up in the corner in a ball.

[FrozenEclipse]

I'd like to see Lucic in this brawl. He wouldn't have to duck to avoid getting hit at least. Hunch backed freak.

[skinwalkerxxx]

Boy I would have loved to have seen what happened in the allway

[stugats1]

this is great

[kerouacjr]

Anyone surprised that it was Kevin Collins who stopped the Bruin from going after Nilan? He made a career out as the "no go" linesman. Boooo!

[quietriot46]

thats about the only thing the bruins have won(a couple fights) in the what the last 40years

[bjdon99]

Sometimes Knuckles just did some really stupid things. This would be one of them.

[Rattus17]

Would have loved to see O'Reilly beat the shit out of somebody for old times sake

[brewins7]

u butt bobby orr is from canada

[artistseye1]

Also, the only reason Montreal won all of those cups was because they had first dibs on all of the players from the Quebec Province which means that if Bobby Orr was from there, they would have had him too. Kinda tells you why they won all of those championships. Since the NHL discontinued this practice, I don't think they have won any!!

[oldsmoguy]

you're a knob...they stopped that in the 60's at the latest, and let's see...67, 68, 71, 76, 77, 78, 79, 86, 93...other than that, no, haven't won any...

[oldsmoguy]

you don't know shit, you knob...they stopped that before the first expansion in 67, and other than 67, 68, 71, 76, 77, 78, 79, 86 and 93, they've won nothing....the Bruins are the ones that have won dick.

[Rattus17]

11 of the Canadiens championships are from the "original six" era when the Red Wings, Bruins, BlackHawks, and Rangers were all effectively own by James Norris. He put all the Bruins best players on the Red Wings which is why all of the titles in the original six era were won by either Montreal, Detroit, or Toronto. A good deal of those championships need to be considered with a grain of salt

[Mark1379]

stfu..the Habs have owned your Bruins for a century...deal with it. The Bruins NHL history can be summized by a few words..being owned by the Habs.

[canjrs]

If it was not for Quebec your beloved Bruins would take a big hit minus Bergeron and Savard ... are they pussies ...pussy !!!

[sjguillette]

....we need a brawl like this again... i think alot of people would be paying attention to the NHL afterwards....

[blackeyedcheese]

ahhh, old time hockey. Like a warm blanket mmmmmm.

[ARTISTSEYE2]

The only good thing to come out of Montreal was.....

Wait, I'm still thinking? It wasn't Chris Nilan seeing he's from South Boston. We're ashamed of him anyway. I'll keep trying to think of something good about Montreal

[streetdangle7]

roy

lafluer

12 other hall of famers

your soo dumb

[Habsfan0206]

Good things to come out of Montreal:

1. 24 Stanley Cups

2. Morenz, Rocket, Béliveau, Lafleur, Roy (stars)

3. John Ferguson, Chris Nilan, Laraque (fighters)

3. Hot girls

4. Downtown Montreal (Crescent Street, St. Laurent & Ste Catherine Street)

What does Boston has to offer other than brawls? Is that compensation for Boston winning only 5 Stanley Cups? Can't win the Cup, well we might as well fight! Right?

Teams are remembered for winning championships, not brawls!

[keefe54]

1. Boston has 32 Pro Sports Championships

2. The Greater Boston area has more universities than all of Canada

3. You wanna talk about fighters then how bout one of the best ever, Rocky Marciano

3. You had two 3's you idiot

4. All big cities are hott chick magnets get over it

5. Boston was the cradle of democracy in the Revolution and has one of the best Pub scenes around.

6. Boston is a much bigger and much more successful sports town, plus we only riot for championships

[Mark1379]

Montreal has about as many without the same number of teams.

2. It isnt asbout quantity, more about quality, which is what Montreal is about.

3.Montreal is bigger, better and greater than Boston, in any manner possible.

4. Montreal is the shrine of Hockey

5. Montreal has way greater night life.

6. Montreal has better fighters, and if you count marciano, I'll count GSP.

[apodino]

Although Nilan played most of his career for Montreal, he actually came out of Boston where he grew up.

[seagullsummer]

Hated Nilan ever since....even now....Bruins should be ashamed to have taken him onboard.

[lucicrocks]

habs will miss the playoffs this year.

[lucicrocks]

habs are a bunch of asshole whinebags..its gonna be nice to see them miss the playoffs this year..ahahhaha.

[myk010]

HABS HABS HABS.....best at everything..... GO HABS GO

[Silbrace]

lucic??? jaaah... MISS LUCIC... :D

[zellner70]

You two clowns have no friggin' idea what you are talking about. Lucic can play, Laraque is a thug. He didn't even follow the puck the entire game. Of course someone has to step in for Komisarek; he can't take care of his own business. Lucic owned him (in the B's 6-1 win). Mike likes to punch to the back of the head and then run, when he's not trying to take out someone's knees.

And let's not forget the diving. You guys love to flop all over the ice, when an opponent breathes on you.

[Habsfan0206]

And if Laraque was a Bruin, what would you say?

[wrappindude]

Lucic is scared shit over Laraque.Did you see the fear in his face when Laraque asked him to go,I'm not kidding.Me and my Hab buddies laugh about it all the time.Fuck Lucic and fuck the Bruins.Only good thing to come out of Boston was Ted Williams and Bill Lee

[AGP12345]

you're just mad that the habs are in danger of missing the playoffs.

[kelvana33]

Lucic had orders not to go with Laroque. What happened? Lucic scored the games first goal and the Bruins won...Laroque doesnt belong in the league, he can fight but he cannot play

[henkissmart]

Laraque was an ok player with pitt. but He can't deal with either Mtl or the staff there.

[hockeybooks]

lucic has fought within the best of the fighter's code but when he fought jordan bendfeld twice on the way to winning the Memorial Cup in his hometown, in the rink less than 15 minutes from where he grew up , first , he avenged a pre-arranged jumping of the G-men's leading play-off scorer and WJC gold medal winner, kendall mcardle , and followed up with MVP winning shift that capped with beating down bendfeld even better the 2nd time

Lucic is the man in the 604 area code

[nitesco]

You said he is not tough. Do you usually make comments on people you don't follow? I am done with you, sorry but you are a few fries short of a happy meal son.

[nitesco]

You clearly have not followed Lucic at all in his hockey career if you think that. And real nice comment about Bergeron bud, guy gets a concussion from a dirty hit and you make fun of him?

[nitesco]

Lucic has fought many people his own size and bigger. No one is saying he is the best fighter in the NHL. He is just very good at it. If you don't so, then your bias against him is why. I am a Bruins fan, and because of that I don't like the Canadiens, but I can admit they have many good players, and even some good fighters. Both teams are doing well, and to say the Bruins aren't is just ridiculous.

[nitesco]

Wow, what a smart one Nilan is. Let's take a swing at a Bruin, at with 10 of them around.

[habs4life9]

best rivalry in hockey.

[h0ck3yguitar]

do you not know how bad of a comeback that was? like do you honestly half that small a brain you cant store anything semi good in it? habs are goin for 2009 cup nobody is gonna stop them! bruins are gonnna lose to them again!

[littleblackalleycat]

BOSTON RULES

[altfactor]

On the one hand, perhaps the refs should have called the game and given a "double-forefit", meaning both teans would be credited with losing the game.

But were that to have happened, major rioting would have broken out in Boston.

[geraldman24]

Typical pussy ken linseman, makes sure there's a linesman and two Boston cops in the middle before he starts shit...always a fuckin' pussy...

[wrappindude]

Linseman had what was coming.He started yapping and Nilan gave him a shot.Linseman never fought,he just yapped,he wasn't called THE RAT for nothing.People still call him RAT 15 years after he retired.The Montreal management should have given Nilan a bonus for this.

[timmacg99]

this is brilliant....this is why hockey is soooooooo entertaining....the unknown.....but sadly homos like bettman (who by the way never ever has played hockey...used too work for the nba!!) have screwed the game....

old time hockey, please come back!

[salliusgrode]

Awesome stuff lol its so exciting to see a fight

[wrappindude]

Nilan did not cheap-shot Linseman,Linseman was yapping his mouth when Nilan was going past toward the dressing room,Linseman wasn't called the :Rat" for nothing you know.Yes,Collins should have let Miller and Nilan go at it,it would have prevented all the mayhem.I mean for godsakes they were fighting in the hallway,it almost went all the way to the parking lot where,so I've heard that the Canadien's bus had been vandelised.There were even fights in the crowd right after this.Old time hockey!!

[pjam6]

nilan gave a cheep shot at boudeler missed but still a cheepshot. then as he was leaving the ice he threw a punch at linseman.get your facts right.nilan was a cheap player always hated him even when he played for the bruins.

[apodino]

I almost wonder if Kevin Collins early in the fight should have let them fought, rather than wrestle with Jay Miller. Would that have prevented all hell from breaking loose?

Also notice Claude Lemiuex involved in this, and he didn't turtle.

[warrior4life420]

im from ontario and here we all love quebec ? its the most beautiful province in canada so i dont know what ur talkin about ? maybe ur just a habs hater u fag ?

[waterwako]

wow

[cgreen1583]

Andy Van Hellemond a bad referee? Sure he made a bad call about Sakic's goal but he was ranked the best referee for 14 years in a row and he's in the hall of fame. Sure he lost control of his games sometimes but he had a "let the boys play" attitude similar to other old time referees like Bruce Hood, Bob Meyers, Bryan Lewis, etc.

[dizzybenny]

hockey was so much better when it wasent a water down league.

[alartandy]

Another masterpiece game refereed by Andy Van Hellemond, easily one of the NHL's worst.

And Kevin Collins as usual steps in the middle of a great bout in the making between Nilan and Miller.

[wrappindude]

I seen Miller lose some and win some,he clutched and grabbed too much,more of a brawler than a puncher.He was a real strong guy and was at his best in close.I'll never forget Kordic pounding him in the 86' playoffs though

[meslem99]

My father keeps telling me about these old time hockey brawls...this shit is crazy

[DiamondJoeQuimby]

never could stand Kevin Collins... big fuckin' lummox, always steps in the way of two heavies who clearly want a piece of each other... shit ref, always has been.

[Qcssipi]

old hockey boston-mtl love it

[CelticJared]

Best rivalry in the NHL to this very day

[dirigo43]

old school Boston Garden, Habs v. Bruins, I love it!

[habsxtreme11]

go habs go

[pklmlynn]

Nilan the ultimate ballbuster.

[mookergee]

wow the good old days, c'etait le beau temps

[raweix]

This is amazing! Thanks...

[rehanson05]

Nilan is a pussy. He acted like he was just tying up then when he realizes the guy wasn't payin attention he throws a haymaker. Wat a coward.

[trevorirwin41]

Screw you buddy, if you're hooked up with Chris Nilan and you turn away you deserve to get pounded. You trying tell me that Miller wouldn't have done the same thing.

Plus Miller went after Maley??, talk about picking an easy opponent, he could have hooked w/ Nilan but for some reason didn't. Miller is the pussy, putting on that show like he was going to kill Nilan. Easy to do when the linesman is holding him back. Miller was a loser and will always be a loser.

[landrykkb]

@trevorirwin41 Chris Nilan would have chewed up Jay Miller and spit him out!

[HawkFest]

Nilan... LOL this guy was no a sissy... He OWNED those Big Bad Bruins, their whole team... LOL!

[matt192433]

Nilan owned their whole team??? If he wanted to pair off with a fighter he would have fought Miller. But Miller proved to own Chris Nilan. It was great however to see O'Reilly hold off young player like Roy and McCarthy. Montreal was a bunch of bitches.

[HawkFest]

Referees should get a better salary... dangerous job.

[HypnoSurf22]

awesome vid

[waddddup]

man boston montreal had such a good rivalry back in the day...i missed that...bench clearing and all that!

[pats14fann01]

They still do!!! Now with Montreal beating the Bruins now the rivalry has heated up again.... and with playoff time coming up..... you can feel the tension you can cut it w/ a knife.

[steveN111333]

Was That patrick roy leap frogging Terry o'Reilly ? That was fucking awesome ! Ha ! wonder who would have won out of those two ?

[waddddup]

mwhahah i know!! and yea that was definitely roy..

[OLE9191]

go killah beez

[otto1313]

Miller was a goddamn excellent thug...admit it Canuck assholes...He kicked Canadian and Nordique Ass.

[frenchycanada]

Miller couldn't fight or play hockey....suck it up redneck asshole. Burn any crosses lately? Can you even find Boston on a map?

[Joerotty]

Miller was a much better player and fighter than that sorry excuse for a player the Habs had at the time.I'm talking about John"Steroids"Kordic!

Kordic was a pillow puncher,he could throw a hundred punches,10 would land and none did any damage.

Miller should have put him out of his missery back during that brawl at the Forum when he had Kordic at his mercy.

[ostrand006]

what are you trying to say about boston buddy?

[landrykkb]

@otto1313 Don't forget that the quebec Nordiques had initially drafted Jay Miller and played his first 2 seasons there.

[hockeybooks]

IMO , cashman was tougher than hodge

i posted some of cash's bouts....

[5inthehole]

I never like that weasel Nilan, even when he entually ended up a Bruin. As you can see in the video, all he ever did was sucker punch people when they wern't looking. A true WEASEL! Let Wensink, Hodge or Johnathan at him!

[hockeybooks]

the two best things mike keenan ever did

for my Canucks:

leaving

and trading us roberto luongo

[passpouel]

As far as i know,Roberto Luongo is a french speaking canadian and the fact that you try to alianate him based on his italian heritage is fucked up.He was born and raised in montreal,went to school in mtl....his idols where Patrick Roy and Martin Brodeur who are also french-canadian so......ferme ta gueule osti de faschiste imbecile.....t es une honte pour le quebec en entier en fesant des commentaires stupides comme ca!

[spanishb0b]

Don't make fun of Bruin fans; they are an endangered species

[harwellpkg]

Exactly how many Cups did Neely win?

[nickkipguitar]

neely was injured. exactly what round were you drafted in for the nhl

[steveyweev12]

F the Habs, as soon as Jacobs dies or quits the business, we are going to bring back Lord Stanley to Boston. Canadiens fans are from Canada which is unfortunate for them

[hattrickpatrick1]

I love these homer Bruin's commentators.

Let me guess, Linesman beat Nilan under the stands.

I think not...

BTW...nice work on the Joe Thornton trade, it worked out well for you guys...MVP

The B's will always suck, you can count on that.

[RoccoGordinho]

Habs rocks !

Let's go les boys !

[Voltatire316]

prt2: Boston did not take down Montreal in a fights. Your dreaming. Who did they have Kenny Linsmen, ha ha. Linsmen would start the fights, but he ran when somebody challenge his ass.

[Voltatire316]

XxTotti10Xx

You don't know what you are talking about. Montreal had just as many guys that could rock Boston anytime they wanted to. I remember Mike Milbury sucker punching Larry Robinson, he may of knocked him down, but Larry got up and picked up Milbury with one hand, he had him in the air and punched him in the face with the other hand.

[Voltatire316]

The part that cracked me up was when Terry O'Reilly tried to hold off Mike McPhee and Patrick Roy, they get by him. Then Terry stands there looking fed up with all of them. ha ha ha

[claksaface]

thats what i call some boston ass kicking, GO HABS GO!

[XxTotti10Xx]

95 percent of the time boston will destroy montreal in a fight. its just the way it is

[claksaface]

WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT YOU STUPID IGNORANT IDIOT. the habs fucked up the bruins sooo many times, and we always fucked them up in the finals, the fuckin bruins never won vs montreal in the finals. the bruins suck! GO HABS GO MOFFO¡

[XxTotti10Xx]

buddy i said in a fight , i know the bruins don't usually beat habs in the playoffs but 95 percent of the fights montreal will get their asses kicked. and don;t ever talk to me like that again across a computer screen you faggot. you got a problem come see me

[denix6]

i would dont worry, ur just a pussy to say that because you know we obviously will never see eachother. stupid

[canucksrule69]

your the fucking IDIOT hes talking about the fights not who WON the games LEARN TO READ YOU IGNORANT

FROG , YOU NEED A PROMOTION TO BE AN ASSHOLE

[claksaface]

you need a promotion to be an asshole, shit man u have some imagination. homo

[canucksrule69]

no you have the imagination in you think iam a homo

anyways good luck making the playoffs those days are gone,

[claksaface]

well at least we have 24 cups on our back that will never be beaten, you still have to get a cups just to be able to say u actually won one, losers u aint wvwne got one, and without luongo from montreal, canucks are last

[steveyweev12]

Habs are the biggest bag of pussies the NHL has ever seen, they were never nor will ever be known as a team that can scrap, the Bruins are forever known for the "Big Bad Bruins" who would fight throughout the 70s and up until the great Lyndon Byers in the 80's, Canadiens had pussies like Ribeiro who fake injuries and Roy who would beat his wife then hook up with other players in the locker room

[steveyweev12]

P.S. habs had claude lemieux biggest blowhad/pussy the league has ever seen, that guy would hit a squirt from behind

[claksaface]

ur mom too u fucking idiot, hockey is made for winning not fighting u retard, thats what the habs are and always were made to do, the bruins had to get big players to kick the best players asses, woow, look who is the pussy now, and by the way u fucking idiot, claude lemieux want a fighter u fucking stupid idiot, u can call crosby a pussy but he still owns ur ass just like lemieux. u suck bitch, we got 24 cups, live with it bitch, we are the most respected team in the nhl.

[boston4877]

Actually dipshit, the reason the Canadians have so many cups is there was a rule that any player born in the Quebec Providence was automatically Canadians property back in the old days. Since less than 5% of American kids play hockey, it made Montreals talent pool 5 times better than any other team.

[Mark1379]

That's not true, it's been proven to be false, and secondly, that's always the excuse subpar teams with subpar drafting give when they cant defeat us. Heck, the B's had a great team too...you think because we had a few extra french guys we were capable of ebating your asses? We beat you no problem with Orr on defense. We beat you no problems whenever you guys were ahead of us in the standings. The Bruins will always be the Habs bitches.

[boston4877]

Chara could kick the entire habs's ass! lol Ask cam Neely what he thought about Nilan. He kicked his ASS! Ask Jonathan and O Reily what Bouchard meant to hockey! Corson sucks dick for beer money! Overrated pussbag that cant drop em with the heavyweights!

[BostonGarden]

Hey Einstein there was no draft until 1963. Boston lost their entire top line "the Kraut Line" and Frank Brimsek-all four of them Hall of Famers during WW II while the pussies on the Habs stayed home and played hockey. That alone cost Boston at least 3 cups

[bissikrima]

there was only 5 millions Quebeckers u dummy VS. 3% maybe of 250 million, your pool was bigger according to your figures shithead ! so FUCK U we where the best

[Croco83]

Claude Lemieux is a douche...quite possibly the greatest cheapshot artist the NHL has ever seen.

[Mark1379]

so what was Robinson, Nilan, Kordic, Roberge, Bouchard, Ewen, Odelein, Corson, Souray, Rivet, etc etc etc???

For a pussy team, we sure did kick the B's asses all the time. Who is afraid of the big bad bruins? Nobody, certainly not the kings of Hockey, the Habs.

[nickkipguitar]

no team canadas the kins of hockey

[Croco83]

I was about to say that Roy would make up for it later in his career, but the Wings ended up making him their personal bitch. First, they run him out of Montreal (I still remember watching that game, BTW), then he gets his ass kicked by not one, but TWO Wings goalies, and it would've easily been three if they would've let Hasek at him.

[babytruu]

I am from Canada but...I cheer for the Bruins and I always have.I just want my USA friends

to know that we in Canada don't even want Quebec to be known as part of Canada

[yomamma228]

true

[nickkipguitar]

ya well luongos not french candian hes italian canadian so therefore he doesnt count as real montreal

[NightzKidz]

who cares really? he was raised here (montreal)....idiot

[BostonGarden]

You need to get your punk ass kicked