Look at how much quicker he is even at 6’4 guy was just a beast out there
It’s crazy to me that the league allowed garbage like that for so long.
6’4″-230. He was a large land mammal on ice skates.
Maurice Richard had guys jumping on his back to slow him down.
Jesus how many penalties was that before he even passed the Nordiques blueline
God the strength
Imagine Mario’s records if he played in today’s league.
NHL days where you hooked yourself to a player to go down the ice.
I still remember the FLA Panthers bear hugging him down the ice in the ‘96 playoffs. Zero penalties. That year should have been Pittsburgh’s 3rd cup in the 90s
Assist to the teammate who just flattened the second defenseman trying to come back.
Sometimes so many dudes would be hanging on to 66 it looked like one of those water skiing stunts at the Regatta.
I counted 4 felonies in that clip.
GOAT
Best player I’ve ever seen. Absolutely dominant even though he played in an era where clutch/slash/cross checking wasn’t penalized and every team tried to beat the hell out of him.
In todays nhl, the defense would just try to shove the player into his own goalie and look for an interference call.
And he still made them all look stupid
Peter Forsberg is in the conversation too but peak Mario is the best player in the the history of the game. Fuck Gretzky lol
I count no less than 5 penalties on that play, by today’s standards
Mario in today’s game would genuinely be unstoppable
That defenseman probably got benchhed the whole game after that flub lmao
No one took more abuse (relative to penalties actually called) than Alexei Kovalev. His diving incident in the ‘95 playoffs made Andy Van Hellemond look really bad (Sakic goal undeservedly disallowed) and he paid for it for YEARS.
Gj goalie good form
1,723 points in 915 games.
He probably wouldn’t have out scored Gretzky if they played a similar number of games…..but it would have been a lot closer.
They are 1A and 1B all time in my book.
Pavel Bure took his share too for those that could catch him!
I assume that the ref’s arm was up at some point. No penalty was called because he still had the puck.
Lemieux took so much more abuse because he was so big, other players would have been off their skates by center ice.
Two hooks and a hold on that play.
Than*
There’s like, three or four penalties called if that happens today. Hook, hook, hold, interference.
Called the “clutch and grab” era.
This is what is meant when they say Mario scored half of his goals with a player on his back.
He was a beast. It’s hard to exaggerate how great he was.
And between periods he was smoking cigarettes. Cant imagine what he would have been like with todays training and health regiments.
Bro had 5 hooks, 1 slash, and a hold 😭
I personally am so glad the game got rid of this shite
“Make hockey violent again”
Yeah, that’s a funny saying and all, but
Nah
wow you could get a way with a lot back then, it if i remember correctly it wasnt until a short time after he came out of retirement that the nhl decided to clamp down on that stuff and he was thrilled
And he still scored lol. Man… I picked a good hero as a child! I’ve remained attached to his team this far in life too.
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Look at how much quicker he is even at 6’4 guy was just a beast out there
It’s crazy to me that the league allowed garbage like that for so long.
6’4″-230. He was a large land mammal on ice skates.
Maurice Richard had guys jumping on his back to slow him down.
Jesus how many penalties was that before he even passed the Nordiques blueline
God the strength
Imagine Mario’s records if he played in today’s league.
NHL days where you hooked yourself to a player to go down the ice.
I still remember the FLA Panthers bear hugging him down the ice in the ‘96 playoffs. Zero penalties. That year should have been Pittsburgh’s 3rd cup in the 90s
Assist to the teammate who just flattened the second defenseman trying to come back.
Sometimes so many dudes would be hanging on to 66 it looked like one of those water skiing stunts at the Regatta.
I counted 4 felonies in that clip.
GOAT
Best player I’ve ever seen. Absolutely dominant even though he played in an era where clutch/slash/cross checking wasn’t penalized and every team tried to beat the hell out of him.
In todays nhl, the defense would just try to shove the player into his own goalie and look for an interference call.
And he still made them all look stupid
Peter Forsberg is in the conversation too but peak Mario is the best player in the the history of the game. Fuck Gretzky lol
I count no less than 5 penalties on that play, by today’s standards
Mario in today’s game would genuinely be unstoppable
That defenseman probably got benchhed the whole game after that flub lmao
No one took more abuse (relative to penalties actually called) than Alexei Kovalev. His diving incident in the ‘95 playoffs made Andy Van Hellemond look really bad (Sakic goal undeservedly disallowed) and he paid for it for YEARS.
Gj goalie good form
1,723 points in 915 games.
He probably wouldn’t have out scored Gretzky if they played a similar number of games…..but it would have been a lot closer.
They are 1A and 1B all time in my book.
Pavel Bure took his share too for those that could catch him!
I assume that the ref’s arm was up at some point. No penalty was called because he still had the puck.
Lemieux took so much more abuse because he was so big, other players would have been off their skates by center ice.
Two hooks and a hold on that play.
Than*
There’s like, three or four penalties called if that happens today. Hook, hook, hold, interference.
Called the “clutch and grab” era.
This is what is meant when they say Mario scored half of his goals with a player on his back.
He was a beast. It’s hard to exaggerate how great he was.
And between periods he was smoking cigarettes. Cant imagine what he would have been like with todays training and health regiments.
Bro had 5 hooks, 1 slash, and a hold 😭
I personally am so glad the game got rid of this shite
“Make hockey violent again”
Yeah, that’s a funny saying and all, but
Nah
wow you could get a way with a lot back then, it if i remember correctly it wasnt until a short time after he came out of retirement that the nhl decided to clamp down on that stuff and he was thrilled
And he still scored lol. Man… I picked a good hero as a child! I’ve remained attached to his team this far in life too.
White sweaters at home. Those were the days.