The dirtiest player in the league, a generational talent, and a three-team beef
2018 ж. 19 Қаз.
893 107 Рет қаралды
The Boston Bruins hated the Hartford Whalers, and then the Bruins hated the Pittsburgh Penguins. Once Cam Neely came to Boston, he embraced both, finding a foe in Ulf Samuelsson. The two went at it for years, with a playoff collision leading to Neely hanging up his skates earlier than anyone would want.
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"You think i'm a Goon? I have 29 goals. I have 2 goals this season. Don't pressure me!''...Epic statement!
Best part
Lyndon Byers!
Wooooo
He only fights in the ring!
#1 way to tell is someone is a goon. They claim they aren't a goon.
"you think im a goon,... i got 2 goals this season, dont pressure me" luv it
only 836 penalty minutes LMAO
"I have 29 goals. I have 2 goals this season." Great sound bite
maxscameraguy 100th like
@@campbellorvis i was the 100th comment it says 100 with a blue thumbs up
Neely himself has stated that "the hit" wasn't the one that caused his injury that later calcified. It was another hit in that same game in which Neely was laying the check, and Samuelsson avoided it. He bruised his thigh muscle on that one. But I guess it's more fun to say it was that other open ice hit.
No. He still hates Ulf for that hit and that hit altered Cam's career and life.
This video holds the record for most mullets in a single video as well as the record for mullets per minute.
whos the dead man that hit me with the salt shaker
Kick his ass sea-bass!
Came here for this.
I often call my three year old son, Sea Bass.
3
This... This is what I'm here for.
“WHOS THE DEAD MAN, THAT HIT ME WITH A SALT SHAKER!”
W
Kick his ass Sea Bass!
5:15 Nealy's nose is looking at the camera but the rest of his face isn't
Lmao no joke
A rare hockey video from sbnation
woow amazed thankfully it’s rare
Yeah more hoopyball please yawn
too bad stickboi mctat thinks we need to see his skinny face to provide watchable content
Lmao y’all dumbasses prefer pussybasket more? Lmao at least in hockey there is less dives and fighting is allowed. Hockey a men’s sport. Unlike pussybasket.
No bouncyball, just hockey please.
Great job on the soundtrack for this video
Wow! Keep up your excellent work, Summoning Salt! Good to know you are picking good references like these videos of the SBNation crew!
Ayee didn't know u watched hockey vids love ur videos btw keep it up!
Huh.
Neat
We need more Hockey Beefs, SB Nation.
Really enjoyed this as a 30 year old who DID NOT follow hockey a lot growing up. Looking forward to learning more about the league history! Really appreciate your channel making this much thorough and thoughtful content. So many sports fans are starving for stories like this!
Finally!!!!! A hockey video!
Can't even make it good. If you want hockey vids, watch The Hockey Guy and TSN Bardown
Still amazed that Neely and Samuelsson shared an agent.
Good for capitalization and bipartisanship, if either one held victory over each, the agent would still be successful.
I'm not
ya gotta love Lyndon Byers attitude, and sense of humor!
Gotta love hockey beef
Cherry:"I wanna know who's gonna be the hero" Tie Domi:"I got this"
Cherry is a piece of trash...
That was a pure sucker punch - not the mark of a hero. (And, yes, it seems Ulf wouldn't drop the gloves, but, a sucker-punch still isn't a man's weapon.)
@@billgillingham9125 sometimes you gotta be a coward to catch a coward. That Domi punch was beautiful.
@@billgillingham9125 Ulf deserved it for running around acting like a tough guy and then being a straight up coward when retribution came looking for him. I can’t stand Tie Domi, but I applauded him for that one.
@@billgillingham9125 That's what happens if you turtle every time someone challenges you and continue being a goon
Wait...how is Don Cherry STILL old in that footage? Lol.
he is 85
He cherry picks his age
@@calvinsweeney4466 Don Cherry is a DUMBFUCK!!!!!
Cherry has always been old 😂
@@KORN-ne5er more like the GOAT and I'm a Canes fan
Nice vibe on this video. Well done. Tough to capture the excitement of a live hockey match in a summary. You did it.
I was hoping you'd mention the Tie Domi incident, thinking there was no way. So great!
Tie domi and Bob Probert need a segment
Ikr
Yes, please!
I think hockey may have more legit player beefs than just about any other sport. Most others are passing words, while old school hockey involved fists and blood. Honestly they should just do a whole "hockey beefs" video counting down the best
Tommy Wilson versus the world.
I miss the gooning in hockey
Love this series, especially when you bring up good-ol' hockey beef! Keep up the good work SB Nation!
Nice to finally see a hockey video on this page, and a damn good one to boot. Keep it up!
In the top right text of the background article at 1:40, Claude Lemieux is straight up fat shamed then scratched from a game. Very cool.
That pronunciation of Canucks was terrible
Go Canooks!
Booins, Maple Laughs, Dead Things, Nodicks, ... and now Canoooks ...
It's SB Nation, what do you expect
It's all aboot the Canooks
Canuck like puck, not Canuck like book.
How about covering the beef between Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso during their brief stint at McLaren in 2007? Or Prost v. Senna?
Or Hamilton and (now former) Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg. And let's not forget the blood-fueled beef between James Hunt and Nikki Lauda in 1976, a beef so intense that it involved disqualifications, wrecks, fire, rain and people thinking Lauda had died, and a Ron Howard movie staring Thor
Rosberg and Hamilton would be super interesting because that's a beef that has so many layers. Nico and Lewis were childhood best friends and remained so in F1 until they became teammates, and the pressure of a championship winning car drove a huge rift through the 2 of them so badly that the first thing Lewis did after Nico's retirement was say that Valterri was already a better teammate
Hunt and Lauda wasn't really a beef. The movie played that up ridiculously high, when in reality the 2 were friends and had immense respect for each other. They were even roommates before making it to F1
Do more MLB fights
@@Dalejr88rox more of a friendly rivalry I'd say
That being said Ulf was a terrific defenseman. Winning player and a pain in the ass to play against.
I´m pretty sure that if Ulf was american, he´s be considered a legend. Secret Base cant stand great european players.
@@hakansvensson1200 come on guy. We ranger fans love King Henrik.
Very enjoyable! Please do one for the 2018/19 season, props in any case.
Love the video and you're a great narrator. As a Swede, I had Ulf Samuelsson as my idol growing up. I really think he is a underestimated player.
Cam was such a beast. An amazing talent. Any coach would have killed to have a guy like that on their team.
Growing up 20 minutes from the Garden, Neely was my favorite
I was a Habs fan, and Cam killed us, but I had a lot of respect for him. And none for dirty Ulf. I occasionally watch the Tie Domi sucker punch when I feel the universe doesn't punish the guilty nearly enough.
Just came across your channel now, definitely late to the party but man this is hidden gem if I have ever seen one 👌
Really well done! Great video!
the canooks
This is great! Need more hockey video's
Respect for adding subtitles not close to enough youtubers do it!
Great narrative👍 subbed.
I love how you showed his decision to go with the full fish-bowl face shield for the seasons after the Domi incident
Thanks Domi!
great video guy. I love both these guys.
Amazing video! Definitely love to see more hockey content!
Fighting isnt a part of hockey in Sweden, that's why we suck at it. I remember when Thomas Holmström first got to the NHL, his nickname in Sweden was Demolition Man because of his ability to stand in front of the opponents goal and take hits and be a nuisance. In the NHL they thought Demolition Man meant he could kick some ass, and Rob Blake among others tried to start fights with him. Holmström of course is one of the nicest guys on earth, like many of us here in the frozen north of Sweden 😁
Sounds like you need your jersey pulled over yah head and a knuckle sandwich to the jaw eh? Didn’t realize you all played Pee-Wee out there eh?
Other non-hockey beef videos are cute... but lets be real... This Beef series was made for hockey.
"...are cute." Dont try to talk up tough guy hockey fights, but use soroity sister lingo.
Hahaha I love that interview with LB. He sounds exactly the same then as he does today on the radio.
i love these videos but the hockey beefs may be my favorite
I remember those years and Cam's knees got targeted by every team they played in the playoffs.
What if jon Bois made a hockey vid 😱😱😱
woow amazed he’s making a UFC video sometime in November
If he did it should be on how awful the rangers were in the 50s
it would be pretty good
What if Jon Bois made any video?
Internet explodes
Great content!
Nicely done. Some great years in the NHL right there.
Don Cherry always finds a way to praise the Bruins. And of course also finds a way to rip on European players
Your comment is good but it’s no Bobby Orr
@CJ Dillon Only if they don't wear Poppies. He was right though he knows his hockey.
yea and hes doing it in his basement alone blue must be dead by now
That is one of the things about him that has always annoyed me.
He's a jackass. Ripped all Europeans. I remember when he said Jagr was everything that was wrong in the game today.
More hockey beefs plz!
That LB news clip used to get played on the Hillman Morning Show in Boston where LB was the “sports director” for years. I miss LB. I hope he’s doing good.
Great video!
That was well covered. But remember back then a lot of that "pettiness" was connected to players getting seriously, seriously injured and there weren't a lot of suspensions unless you basically clubbed someone with you stick or hit someone after a goal. Most of that pettiness was from players feeling unsafe and wanting to police that internally. I'm not saying it worked as a over arching system but that is how they felt because they didn't feel like anyone else was going to protect them.
The “Canooks”? I’m from Van City, and I’ve never heard of them lol
Just here for the Brass Bonanza! Great video BTW!
@6:00 Worked on a team LB played for after LB was done with the Bruins. Funny thing is he is really a nice guy
In my opinion, If Cam Neely does not get hurt against Samuelsson, The Bruins may have been able to win the cup In 1991....But as an honest Bruins fan I am sure of this, With the Bruins "Upper Management" at that time being not Interested In spending any money, I think that Cam Neely would have been on any number of teams through free agency In the 1990's....It Is no coincidence that when Cam Neely was at his best, around 1988 to 1991, the Bruins were Finals runner up twice, and Eastern Conference finals runner up once, When Neely was hurt, The Bruins weren't anywhere close to those lofty heights again....Cam Neely's unfairly shortened NHL career was not only a loss to the Bruins of course, it was a loss to the NHL as a whole....He would have had a 15+ year career like an Ovechkin or Crosby In today's NHL....It Is one of the great what If questions, what If Cam Neely has a full NHL career unencumbered by Injury....Anyway, thank you for this post.
Milbury should have never been allowed to be our head coach/GM. Dude has no idea how to run a hockey team
bourque801 boi stahp. The Pens winning the following year is all the proof you need that they had championship pedigree
yeah no lol
@@countof3everybodyOD yeah lemieux ate bourque alive every time he played him too
I'm definitely not a Bruins fan, but Neely was by far the best hockey power forward on earth. Samuelsson was a coward. Probably still is. He ended the hockey career of Pierre Mondou by partially blinding him with an intentional high stick.
I kind of recall Mike Milbury calling bob Johnson a " professor of goonery"
Im a huge Bruins fan born and raised in Boston but I miss the Whalers. I love when I see someone rocking Hartford Whalers gear nowadays but it’s so very rare to see....
I love that ending lol subbed
When something gets Ron Francis that fired up , you know it is serious!
Usually its a cheeseburger with extra bacon
Another good video. Gotta mention Dennis Rodman and Karl Malone again
great video, need more hockey videos, there's so many feuds in hockey it's unreal, UNLIMITED CONTENT POSSIBILITIES!
Love these hockey stories! Checkout the sean avery one too.
I've seen this video before. I know this video. Yet, whenever I see a Bruins jersey in a thumbnail and the words "The dirtiest player in the league" I keep thinking that SB Nation has done a video on Brad Marchand...
Screen turns green from envy...
yes......the rat must be.....well ya know....he will get his....
@@loupgarou1317 He got the soul cross-checked out of him from behind yesterday, check it out!
@@Swag-Juice Good stuff
@@loupgarou1317 think he did...see suban hit
The part thats most fascinating to me is that his name was Neely... After all his injuries, they should've called him kneely 😂
THANK YOU TIE
Good job Ty
I think there’s another perspective to this piece that is sorely lacking. Samuelson was a Swede who never fought in his life growing up. Asking someone who has never fought anyone to suddenly go out and fight is pretty weak. Also, Boston liked to play rough with everyone but they were the first to cry whenever anyone played rough back. This is sour grapes.
Boston are babies too but if your gonna constantly take runs at a guy (which I have no problem with) you gotta answer the bell. I was a physical player and if it wasn't for no fighting allowed I would of been willing to answer the bell. It's what you do
Johnathan Korkie Yeah, I don’t have any problem with that part of it. I think that’s the least important part of the whole conversation. Neely’s landing a couple punches on Samuelsson’s helmet wasn’t going to make his hip any better. I’m just making the point that Boston beat the hell out of Samuelsson - and most others - for years, using both legal and illegal tactics. Then, Samuelsson goes to a much better team than the Whalers and he is finally freed up to exact some vengeance of his own in a way he hadn’t for years beforehand. Remember, as a Whaler, he was on the receiving end of almost ALL of the punishment. I just don’t have a lot of sympathy for teams like Boston or Philadelphia, would like to run around as part of their organizational DNA. Then, when they get caught on the wrong end of something, they scream bloody murder. Should Samuelsson have fought him? Yeah, he probably should have. Does it matter at all to the larger arc of the story? No, I don’t think so at all.
@@jamest.cromie5814 that's fair
1. Boston still plays rough but cries whenever it's reciprocated. 2. I think if Ulf played that dirty he should expect receipts coming his way such as fights. The Pens have always been my 2nd favorite team, my family is from Pittsburgh, Sabres are my favorite being from Buffalo.
Sure Ulf was never expected to fight before the NFL. Still he knew the NFL had fighting and he had to know that if he played dirtier than everyone else in the league while refusing to fight that there would be league wide contempt. Ulf was the dirtiest player during his time and that was not just against Boston.
Need to create a Brian Burke / Kevin Lowe video
Good stuff ty
Its too bad his knees went, Cam was a beast. I went to my first game in 95' at the garden when the bruins had neely and bourque, they were exciting to watch even at 7 years old.
Kerry Fraser missing an obvious call? Unbelievable! [Sarcasm font]
His hair was in the way.
Do a beef history on Yankees Phillies World Series around 2008-9
It wasn't really beef, just business, I know because I watched that series, also, I noticed that my team, the Phillies, tend to play AL East teams in the World Series, they played the Yankees, beat the Rays (I remember that series well, as basically every guy in my high school at the time watched the game during our school's homecoming dance), lost to the Blue Jays, beat the Royals (who have never been in the AL East) and I believe they've played both Boston and Baltimore in series in the 1800's (baseball history buffs help me out)
Very crisp editing!
More videos like this please
Neely was peerless. A lethal puncher with a great scoring touch. A much too short career on the ice.
6:00 Lyndon Byers was never on the St. Louis Blues nor was he ever Gino Cavallini
Was gonna say... haha
@@grep67 COME ON, COHAAGEN! GIVE THESE PEOPLE AIR!
Thanks Mr Domi
Do the Story of Fred Taylor and how the money in hockey got started! it is an amazing story people either don't know or forget. The Cyclone deserves some modern recognition. He was godly enough to be the first player payed and thats alone deserves a video!
I didn’t know milbury was a coach before he decimated the islanders
Finally hockey!!!
i went to highschool with cam neely's kid, jack neely. I was in his Music Tech class. It was only a two person class because it was an elective that didn't fill a diploma requirement, and he was also much better at it than me.
milbury *STILL* hasnt gotten over it
Both players were great at what they did, Samuelssons job was too make the other teams stars focus on him and he was damn good at it and Neelys job was to score goals and he was damn good at that...but i dont think any of them will win a mr popular contest among other teams.
No, Samuelson was a very dirty player who didn't play the right way. Neely was the greatest power forward of his generation. Few players disliked Neely. Samuelson was universally hated.
@@DrFunk-rk6yl "It's funny," the league's senior vice president, Brian Burke, said earlier this season. "There are 26 general managers, and 25 complain about Samuelsson. And all 25 would take him in a heartbeat."
@@hubby78p20 you are probably right but that doesn't mean that he wasn't extraordinarily dirty. When people complain about Marchand I totally get it. He is a complete cheap shot artist but at the same time I recognize he has unbelievable skill.
@@DrFunk-rk6yl no i never said he didnt play dirty, that would have been stupid since Ulf himself always has admitted he played a dirty game because thats his job and he is damn good at that
You're a solid storyteller brother
Nice job. You should have included Eric Lindros creaming him into the boards, and separating his shoulder in Toronto during the Canada Cup tournament
Samuelsson wasn't the missing piece for the Penguins, but arguably their missing piece, Ron Francis, was included in the same trade.
Loved Cam Neely but that hit on the knee wasn't that bad. Ulf stayed straight Cam moved to the side exposing the knee.. Not a penalty as much as I hate to say it. If I was Cam I'd be pissed too.. If I was Ulf OH well that is hockey.. And they went on to win the STanley Cup. Ulf was a bulldozer just like Cam and he proved it.. He was one dam good Dman. Probably one of the main reasons the Pens won the Cup.. Respect to both Cam and Ulf.. GREAT GREAT hockey back then.. The intensity just watching it was off the charts.. YEAH and I'm Canadian....
@Biff Mc Guzzle Cam should have nailed him straight up instead of veering off.. He was stronger than Ulf.. That is textbook knee writeoff or get your leg blown out.. Not Ulfs fault.. Just the way it is..
SBNation Hockey Videos are gold
That reaction to the osiphying was my reaction. Made me chuckle lol
How much physical pain are these guys in? Man I feel bad for these guys sacrificing their bodies for our entertainment 😔
Veno D313 Neely is now the president of the Boston bruins and he’s in no pain.
i think football and hockey players probably have it the worst, considering the amount of physical play in those games. I remember hearing about a guy named Antwaan Randle-El who can't even climb up the stairs as normally anymore because he has so much knee pain, and the guy is not even 40 yet
It's not forced labour and these guys get paid very well to play the game. I feel a lot worse for football players because the contact is more frequent and I don't think their contracts are structured as well as NHL players (less guaranteed income).
When Swedish steel meets Canadian wood
"Cheap, dirty" steel, in Samuelson's case.
@@canuckereh5646 The only way for a Canadian to stop Samuelsson was to sucker punch him. Canadian weak wood.
@@steli6490 ...or the Canadian would just challenge him to a fight...then that Swedish steel suddenly melts. By the way, respect to Swedes...except for that cheap shot artist. Ended the career of a great player... unforgivable.
Borje Salming was Swedish steel. Ulf was just a POS.
Canucker Eh! That wasn’t a dirty play that ended Neely’s career
5:58 LB makes his entrance. WAY TO WORK KID! You’re the berries!
You should did a video about Montreal and Quebec
Wow. So I had to hit replay on that Domi punch about 9 times x3 Love the hockey videos.
Pepper Coyote look up the actual video It’s in HD. Although Domi was suspended, not one single reporter or fan was mad at Domi. The collective hockey work applauded him. In fact I bought him a scotch two years ago here in Phoenix and had the barkeep tell him it was from a supporter of his Ulf Knockout.
thinkingjack what a coincidence! I’m in Phx too. I’m kinda new to hockey and only found out about Domi because of his son when he played for the Coyotes.
Pepper Coyote dude start playing! I help with a class for beginner skaters on Tuesdays at Oceanside arena in Tempe. Come grow the game!
It's such a satisfying punch. Finally got his comeuppance.
“Canoocks”
The very last clip though... God damn.
One story I heard about the NHL/WHA merger was that the Boston Bruins were so against Hartford joining the NHL that they were willing to play five home games a year in Hartford if that would force the NHL to in turn force Whalers to either go out of business or be moved outside of New England.
No different to what the Leafs did/are doing. That's why Hamilton will never get a team, that's why there will only be one in the GTA. Being the monopoly in your area is the thing to be. Only reason why New York and LA have two teams is because of their size.
Tie Domi was one of the dirtiest cheap shot artists in NHL history and for you to cheer on a sucker punch from anyone, but especially him, is a joke. Always loved this channel until this.
taking it too seriously, it was just relevant in this case to bring up some karma for Ulf. calm down