Rick Dudley vs Ray Bourque - Terry O'Reilly

RICK DUDLEY VS RAY BOURQUE TERRY O'REILLY FIGHTS

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[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[nightintheruts617]

NICE POST

[Monponsett]

Dudley Do-Fight

[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.

[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.