Barry Melrose vs Garry Howatt

[RRaquello]

This was only a couple of years after the Leafs upset the Isles in the playoffs, so before this series, Leafs owner Harold Ballard said the Isles were "Chumps, not champs", which is why the Isles laid it so heavy on the Leafs. The most one sided series I ever saw.

[leafyutube]

The Leafs got absolutely destroyed in this series. Remember it well.

[JosephLupoli]

Gary Howatt--all of 5'8" and 170 lbs, routinely beating the hell out of nearly every enforcer in the NHL!

[deebodeez30]

@JosephLupoli ... what?

[Eddieshack67]

looked like noogies from Saturday night live.....

[bigtimcny]

Good to see Melrose with normal looking hair--unlike the freaky, greasy shit he has now.

[hipmatize]

Wow!! barry melrose footage! anyone ever see the open ice hit he laid on gretzky when he played on the Jets? gretzky was out cold. had his head down. never saw old Barry shortly after that. What a great and legal hit! Would love tio see again

[MrJuha82]

OK hugfest, WITHOUT WINNer.

They threw several shots each man.

No big damage done.

Melrose is a good guy i think.

[FMichael1970]

Wow - a mulletless Melrose!

[Love4SK]

game looks sold out. must be Toronto, certainly not in that dump of an arena in long island new york.

[ChrisDutch]

@Love4SK Isles sold out every playoff game back then and it wasn't easy to get a regular season ticket either. Check your facts. That "dump" of an arena has seen four more cup winners than Maple Leaf Gardens has seen since the last time Hubert Humphrey was a serious presidential contender.

[squiggybasher]

It's the ol' Candyass,Billy Ray Cypress!

[mrceebees14]

Leafs got slaughtered 9-2, 8-1, 7-2.

Shit ass Leafs.

[vidlivs]

@mrceebees14 minor correction, Leafs lost that '81 series by scores of 9-2, and 5-1 at Nassau Coliseum, and then lost the 3rd game at home in Maple Leaf Gardens 6-1 to get swept 3-straight. Total goals were 20-4 for the Islanders. Your scores made the Leafs look worse defensively, but also made their offense or the Isles D look worse by giving the Leafs 5 goals for that series even though they just had 4..lol

[lwhojai]

20 years ago when I lived in NJ Garry would frequently go to Mennen Arena and play in the pick up games. Nicest guy you'd ever meet. Very down to earth. I was a goalie and hated facing him. He'd skate in at will and sent the slowest, easiest to stop shot that he would perfectly place in any part of the net behind me! Frustrating! He was just toying with me! :-)~ Would have hated to face his slap shot!

[byramtax]

i used to play with him at mennen also. and your right, i remember thinking,,"this guy wasnt even a scorer" lol. he was very good,,so was his son.

[johnisallin]

Howatt always scared me when I watched him as a kid. He seemed like some pyscho biker dude that would be in jail for murder if he wasnt playing hockey.

[bobareebop]

He looks psycho there at the end.

[Keyo717]

Real hockey fights not that shit they do now!

[jmg4314]

where's the mullet? I thought he had one since he was 8 yrs old

[slapshot254]

This is the kind of toughest Barry tried to teach the Lightning.

[busterbudd44]

gotta love little evil, gary howatt...

Gilles, Nystrom and Howatt were tough bastards.. I never saw gilles or nystrom lose a fight

[jealouscardinal]

busterbudd44 - when I was a kid I saw Saleski tune up Gilles, and I've seen Shultzie end up on top of Nystrom (though there weren't a lotta tags in that one).

So with the Barry thing - I had to keep on reminding myself that IT WAS THE 70's, which was why I couldn't spot a mullet anywhere.

[bustballz]

no, you certainly DIDNT see that big nosed clown, saleski tune up gilles and you certainly didn't see schultz "end up on top of nystrom" LOL have another drink buddy you're either drunk or dreamin...

[jealouscardinal]

gee thanks dude for your cough omniscient cough setting the record straight.

[vidlivs]

@bustballz You took the words out of my mouth..Saleski did not have the coordination to beat his own shadow let alone take Gillies. To believe that, he must of heard the audio announcing of that fight on a Flyers radio broadcast.

[ProbertFire]

When did Gillies ever fight Saleski?????? And when did Schultz fight Nystrom?????

Those fights never happened. Saleski would never have beaten Gillies. Bird was a horrible fighter...just horrible.

Nice try.

[degennaro59]

I want to see gillies vs robinson,hows that for heavyweights.

[golt73]

GO FOR THE MULLET!!!!

[davecalotta]

gary howatt is a fuck

[SKWalrus]

Barry sure fought lots of Islanders, didn't he?

[oehieze]

the MAN that would become the MULLET! :)

[alartandy]

Melrose soon to be named the new Tampa Bay coach.

[gordyt99]

He got it.

[arequipa1]

now he has just been fired 16 games into the season

[Envelope86]

Howatt never backed down from anybody!