A few random thoughts after a bad nite in the hospital watching this clip...Too bad we couldn't clone Fotiu to take care of some more of those Philly scumbags...did that pussy Bobby Clarke pair up with a seat usher?... is it or me or was all Chadwick could do for commentary was talk about fines and suspesions every nite?...Duguay got his ass kicked but I heard later his hair was ok...
Don't mess with any of these teams from back when. This is when hockey fights were at its best. The only thing is that Philadelphia should have been named The Broad St Punks instead of bullies.
Totally agree. The NHL will NEVER be the way it used to be. All the new rules & Euros & face shields & most importantly, Bettman --- the electricity in the buildings used to be incredible when the Flyers came into town. Now arenas are half-empty with 1/2 the good seats owned by corporations. its all so antiseptic now.
I loved it back then! I went to a fight 1 night and a hockey game broke out. I was 14
then and i remember I was a big flyers fan
Schultz had a fan club called shultz's ARMY! And then made a record called the penalty box. The only player ever 2 have his own ARMY and a hit 45 record. lmao
you could count on the flyers 2 have at least 4-5 bench clearing brawls a year.
Mel bridgeman had to be the nicest guy I have met from the old NHL. I met him when I was a kid and he was already in NJ. Just a good, decent guy. Nothing like what you'd expect watching these old films.
Get a clue! Fotiu would have buried Domi. Fotiu was too big, strong, and a better boxer than Domi. When Fotiu fought the entire Flyer's team had to jump him LOL...
The best thing about Russia is that they keep all the little dicks in one place. What a country between the alchololics , the Scarface wannabes and the bad food...you have hell on earth. Don't leave Ruskie, we don't want yr pollution. Putin...yeah baby, good choice dopes.. Gulag for you.
Funny thing is for his fighting Nick Fotiu Flyers winger Jim Cunningham never made the team. He was showing the team what he could do in the fisticuffs department in the pre-season and Nicky beat him.
typical Fotiu..... incites a bench clearing brawl and does he fight Holmgren, Dupont, Bridgman? nope.... leaves the penalty box and fights some nobody..... and can't even beat him lol...... what a waste of skin..... this brawl really illustrates what pussies the Rangers were though..... 3 grown men crying for their mommies :)
first off i am a rangers fan ... but i agree the rangers had pussy line-ups through-out the 1970's and parts of the 80's... what makes me sick to my stomach is that the Rangers had guys like Andre Dupont, Curt Bennett, Steve Durbano, Jim Troy and so on. They didnt believe in having more than one (fotiu) police men on the team.
Fucking scum bag Dupont jumps Fotiu. The Flyers were cowards it was ok for them to pummel somebody but as soon as they were overmatched the ganged up on that guy.And that pussy Brigman always went after the middleweights.
Cry baby Rangers fans whining about after Fotiu made a big mistake and started the fight. As usual the Rangers got beat up. ...yawn. Bridgeman fought the best and never lost,. Another body bag game for the pussy Rangers.
Some players were not known as fighters. Ron Duguay was a Good Hockey Player and his efforts in a Rangers Sweater never went un noticed. In my my opinion, nobody is a wimp in hockey due to its physical nature to begin with.Those 70's Rangers were great to watch!! Duguay,Hickey,ESPO,Marois, Davidson,Murdoch!!!
My uncle had season tix at MSG in the late 70's and he always said how crazy the games and the fans in the stands were back then, riots almost every game, gotta love it!
Frank Beaton, a minor leaguer, was once traded for a steak dinner. The official trade was listed as Beaton for future considerations. Maybe the steak was tougher. Beaton was too small for the NHL heavies
"Why can't it be like this anymore?" Man, I feel your pain. Instigator penalties, third man in penalties, man, they took the life right out of a great sport. Now we get traps, European finesse, helmets. I haven't watched a hockey game in ten years.
Beaton was supposed to be this real tough guy from the WHL. His nic name was never been Beaton. ..Well Bridgmen gave Beaton a beating.
harwicke 2 months ago
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MrLehnerd 5 months ago
Isn't "Philly" a nickname for a pussy?
Thorpe741 11 months ago
A few random thoughts after a bad nite in the hospital watching this clip...Too bad we couldn't clone Fotiu to take care of some more of those Philly scumbags...did that pussy Bobby Clarke pair up with a seat usher?... is it or me or was all Chadwick could do for commentary was talk about fines and suspesions every nite?...Duguay got his ass kicked but I heard later his hair was ok...
tonyeye1 11 months ago
Nick Fotiu was nasty brawler. Did'nt take anyones crap
USFIRE1966 1 year ago
Don't mess with any of these teams from back when. This is when hockey fights were at its best. The only thing is that Philadelphia should have been named The Broad St Punks instead of bullies.
USFIRE1966 1 year ago
@USFIRE1966 Actually a Bully is a punk!! it wasnt a compliment but to the flyers and their ignorant fans it didnt matter!!!
44sox44 1 year ago
@USFIRE1966 I agree with you.
USFIRE1966 1 year ago
Superbe !!!!
Mortagne 1 year ago
hate those winnipeg jets throwbacks jerseys!!
TheTzdope 1 year ago
And this was only preseason?DAMN,that was pure hate with Phily and NYR!
blank77 1 year ago
Hate those jerseys love Nick Fotiu he was an ass kicker.
BronxNYE206St 1 year ago
look at linesman,,i would like to crack a stick on his head!
uiwqe 1 year ago
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torontorock13 1 year ago
look at frank beaton looking around for help like a scared child before bridgeman beats him senseless...
dagwood2001 2 years ago
The announcer says this sort of thing "sets the game back 50 years."
Are you kidding?
I wish this happened every game. Think about it: This happened over 30 years ago and we're still watching it. Why? Because we love it.
Discofishinggoober 2 years ago 2
Totally agree. The NHL will NEVER be the way it used to be. All the new rules & Euros & face shields & most importantly, Bettman --- the electricity in the buildings used to be incredible when the Flyers came into town. Now arenas are half-empty with 1/2 the good seats owned by corporations. its all so antiseptic now.
Camel22221 2 years ago 2
Yeah, who wants players protecting their faces anyway? I agree with you on everything else though.
journeythruthepast 1 year ago
@Discofishinggoober Haha, great post, couldn't agree more. I miss this stuff.
juicelesscaptain 1 year ago
hunanwock I agree. Paul Holmgren was always over rated. Even more as a GM !
Mortagne 2 years ago
Is Hockey Died?
isSBFC4LIFEdied 2 years ago
Beaton took a beatin, lol
I loved it back then! I went to a fight 1 night and a hockey game broke out. I was 14
then and i remember I was a big flyers fan
Schultz had a fan club called shultz's ARMY! And then made a record called the penalty box. The only player ever 2 have his own ARMY and a hit 45 record. lmao
you could count on the flyers 2 have at least 4-5 bench clearing brawls a year.
bafaz 2 years ago
Mel bridgeman had to be the nicest guy I have met from the old NHL. I met him when I was a kid and he was already in NJ. Just a good, decent guy. Nothing like what you'd expect watching these old films.
stevedrums 2 years ago
Domi woulda killed Fotiu. Hey, Nick. It takes more than you throwing pucks to the fans...you gotta show up when they need you.
detroitchuckie 2 years ago
Get a clue! Fotiu would have buried Domi. Fotiu was too big, strong, and a better boxer than Domi. When Fotiu fought the entire Flyer's team had to jump him LOL...
tedfio1tedfio1 2 years ago
cunningham hit the hired goon as many times at he hit him
villanova85 3 years ago
Fotiu a goon? With Shultz and company on the Flyers thats funny. Fotiu scared the Flyer team; read Schult's book LOL...
tedfio1tedfio1 2 years ago 2
typical lowlife philly hockey!!buncha dirty scumbags!!!
uiwqe 3 years ago 9
@uiwqe Exactly. Fotiu was about to pound someone and some other guy, in typical flyer fashion, stepped in to make it an unfair fight.
juicelesscaptain 1 year ago
@juicelesscaptain As an Islander fan, I almost daily wish for the Ranger plane to crash......but damnit I love Nicky!!!!
clebo99 1 year ago
What a pleasant thought.
dzanier 1 year ago
Typical shit flyers. lost every fair fight they were in, that's why they make sure there aren't any.
meanwiddlekid 3 years ago 11
The best thing about Russia is that they keep all the little dicks in one place. What a country between the alchololics , the Scarface wannabes and the bad food...you have hell on earth. Don't leave Ruskie, we don't want yr pollution. Putin...yeah baby, good choice dopes.. Gulag for you.
morningman33 3 years ago
Go back to the motherland you Russian bastard, just because you're team was never as boss as ours, doesn't mean you can talk shit.
FitzMaro 3 years ago
Dupont jumps fotiu because nicky headbutts cunningham.
swany65 3 years ago
Funny thing is for his fighting Nick Fotiu Flyers winger Jim Cunningham never made the team. He was showing the team what he could do in the fisticuffs department in the pre-season and Nicky beat him.
alartandy 3 years ago
typical Fotiu..... incites a bench clearing brawl and does he fight Holmgren, Dupont, Bridgman? nope.... leaves the penalty box and fights some nobody..... and can't even beat him lol...... what a waste of skin..... this brawl really illustrates what pussies the Rangers were though..... 3 grown men crying for their mommies :)
justice008a 3 years ago
he did beat him...are you frustrated man? eat carrots...
jcnyut000000000000 3 years ago
yo clown, are you kidding me? check out the beating Nicky gives Holmgren and Mr Behn Wilson, who he destroyed. Nobody tougher then Nicky!!!!!!!!!!!!
dtrrose 3 years ago
Duguay's hair got broken.
ggtrains 3 years ago
Waa, Waa.
chrisradano 3 years ago
first off i am a rangers fan ... but i agree the rangers had pussy line-ups through-out the 1970's and parts of the 80's... what makes me sick to my stomach is that the Rangers had guys like Andre Dupont, Curt Bennett, Steve Durbano, Jim Troy and so on. They didnt believe in having more than one (fotiu) police men on the team.
bayardguy 3 years ago
Fucking scum bag Dupont jumps Fotiu. The Flyers were cowards it was ok for them to pummel somebody but as soon as they were overmatched the ganged up on that guy.And that pussy Brigman always went after the middleweights.
ycanada 3 years ago 2
Cry baby Rangers fans whining about after Fotiu made a big mistake and started the fight. As usual the Rangers got beat up. ...yawn. Bridgeman fought the best and never lost,. Another body bag game for the pussy Rangers.
morningman33 3 years ago
More like another teabag game for the Faggotdelphia Flitters. Fuck them, and fuck their fans.
RobDog65 3 years ago
for a period of time the flyers destroyed hockey all they wanted to do was fight
MASKETO444 4 years ago 2
Old Time Hockey When it was fun to watch. To bad money killed it like kills all the sports.
dcaggese 4 years ago 2
GOONS.
smelltheglove6637 4 years ago
Though only an idiot would say the Flyers suck, one can't help but say the same about your comment, since most of the NHL are Canadian players.
Broadstreetbully32 4 years ago
Some players were not known as fighters. Ron Duguay was a Good Hockey Player and his efforts in a Rangers Sweater never went un noticed. In my my opinion, nobody is a wimp in hockey due to its physical nature to begin with.Those 70's Rangers were great to watch!! Duguay,Hickey,ESPO,Marois, Davidson,Murdoch!!!
Herbonator200 4 years ago
old-time hockey
Jagr4ever 4 years ago
I agree...Ron Dugay was a big pussy. I think my mother beat him up on the street one day.
Maroons1p 4 years ago
My uncle had season tix at MSG in the late 70's and he always said how crazy the games and the fans in the stands were back then, riots almost every game, gotta love it!
B2B76 4 years ago
Because american sports are full of fags. Take the pads off and take the knocks like a man, pussies.
captainpish 5 years ago
Oh yes! Those classic awful old Rangers uniforms! Thank you for posting this clip!
zubizuva 5 years ago
Frank Beaton, a minor leaguer, was once traded for a steak dinner. The official trade was listed as Beaton for future considerations. Maybe the steak was tougher. Beaton was too small for the NHL heavies
BostonGarden 5 years ago
Jim Gordon and the BIG whistle, Bill Chadwick!!! The greatest broadcasting team ever!
mrlucky777 5 years ago
Those were the days. You go to see a fight and a hockey game breaks out! LOL.
hardtechnoboy 5 years ago
Flyers and for that matter Eagles suck
demoremixed25 5 years ago
you suck.
jupiterbob 5 years ago
"Why can't it be like this anymore?" Man, I feel your pain. Instigator penalties, third man in penalties, man, they took the life right out of a great sport. Now we get traps, European finesse, helmets. I haven't watched a hockey game in ten years.
PrincePurple 5 years ago
Wow nice look New York, is that the Rangers or the Winnepeg Jets out there.
Islesowndisleague 5 years ago
They had that style before the Jets, since the Jets joined the NHL in 1979-80. Their WHA jerseys were different. They do look exactly alike.
vidlivs 5 years ago
yeah those jerseys did suck
psu68born 5 years ago
absolutely right!!!
albertarn 4 years ago
Why can't it be like this anymore.
jbollocks 5 years ago
because those Ranger Jerseys suck
barkingclam 5 years ago
awesome clip, would love to see this on "MSG Vault"
iseven016 5 years ago