J0e Th0rnton Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 Me.I would have been the bomb. Gretzky like vision, Lemieux like Agility, catlike balance and terrific hand eye coordination. Hard accurate quick shot and release. Smooth as silk pass and quick decision maker. Shame I could not skate backwards worth crap or stop properly and nobody would teach me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J0e Th0rnton Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 That is exactly why Clarke pulled this infamous stunt, one of the most vicious intentional slashes in hockey history. I just love the fact he always smiles and tells the truth, that he would indeed do it again.....hilarious. So much like a classic Clarke quote... I know you've seen it before, but WOW is that *ever* a sinister wind up by Clarkie....WOW.rofl. Well, Bobby Clarke was a POS. No offense Flyer fans. The level of violence accepted back then was incredible. A butt end to the temple would knock a lot of people out cold. Blunt force trauma with a deadly weapon. It is like smasing someone with a hammer. It is worse in motive than the Bertuzzi attack and could have been much worse. And this was an exhibition game. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer2 Posted August 24, 2014 Share Posted August 24, 2014 @J0e Th0rnton Good ol' Bobby, wow, he was a vicious mean SOB, he carved up opponents with the best of them. Yeah, the level of violence was really hard to wrap your head around, esp with all the present day rules etc. You were actually taking your life in your own hands playing hockey back then...lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blocker Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Love tap. Goddam cheap Russian boots. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorick Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Must be some Russian dude. Also, meh! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Ewing Posted August 25, 2014 Share Posted August 25, 2014 Yep, the Russians were winning the series at that point, and the Canadians were very worried about Khalamov taking over the whole series. I would love to see who gave the actual order to take him out, I have a gut feeling that string was pulled by Alan Eagleson (let the conspiracy grow and multiply....LOL). Khalamov was making our defense, look quite pedestrian, he was beating the very best d-men in the world wide whenever he pleased....he was scary good. You may enjoy coverage of the '72 Series from the site Black Dog Hates Skunks. Each minute of each game was gone over and checked for Coris events. As it turns out, only in game 5 did the Soviets outchance the Canadians in that series, and not a single Canadian regular was outchanced once the series was finished. There was really only guy (Rod Seiling) who had his lunch handed to him, and he was usually a pretty sure defensive player in NHL games, and he only played a few games before the coaching staff threw water on the fire and took him out. Annnnnnnyway. Yeah, Kharlamov was damned good. Others coming to mind kind of quickly: Tretiak (duh), Vasiliev, Firsov, Maltsev. Everything I've read about Bobrov says he was amazing, but I can make zero claims as to the standard of play. I'll believe his skill was outstanding, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer2 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 @JR Ewing Very neat find, makes me wonder if they applied corsi to the old original six, who would stand out etc... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Ewing Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 @JR Ewing Very neat find, makes me wonder if they applied corsi to the old original six, who would stand out etc...I think it would be a lot like now: it would find over and undervalued players. Who they would be particularly we can't know for sure, but we can sometimes make educated guesses. Doug Harvey sounds like prototype for a play controlling Corsi monster: he limited chances against and drew forecheckers before smartly passing the puck up-ice to open players, creating chances.But... It's just a guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jammer2 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 @JR Ewing Hopefully, some stat nut goes to work on the corsi for the original Six....ha ha. There are some players I'd love to see the Corsi stats for. Not org. Six, but can you imagine the unGodly Corsi that Bobby Orr put up in some of his best seasons? Would also be neat to see the Corsi for the Big 3 in their primes. Who would have the better Corsi stats, Coffey or Potvin? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J0e Th0rnton Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 @JR Ewing Hopefully, some stat nut goes to work on the corsi for the original Six....ha ha. There are some players I'd love to see the Corsi stats for. Not org. Six, but can you imagine the unGodly Corsi that Bobby Orr put up in some of his best seasons? Would also be neat to see the Corsi for the Big 3 in their primes. Who would have the better Corsi stats, Coffey or Potvin?I don't think that would be humanly possible.Corsi is the amount of shots taken vs shots against while you are on the ice. Not just shots on net. Blocked shots, tipped shots, high/wide shots, etc and those things need to be tracked with your eyes. They only recorded shots on goal back then. Nobody has every game ever filmed as far as I know. Or they would play more than the same old vintage games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JR Ewing Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 I don't think that would be humanly possible.Corsi is the amount of shots taken vs shots against while you are on the ice. Not just shots on net. Blocked shots, tipped shots, high/wide shots, etc and those things need to be tracked with your eyes. They only recorded shots on goal back then. Nobody has every game ever filmed as far as I know. Or they would play more than the same old vintage games.Yup. It's a idea, but will forever remain a wish. I have a lot of stuff covering 1968 thru to today, which I didn't release but, but none of it is Corsi. Won't happen, because it can't happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScottM Posted August 26, 2014 Author Share Posted August 26, 2014 I may not have much I can contribute to this conversation at this point, but this has been some very interesting reading, I must say. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Podein25 Posted August 26, 2014 Share Posted August 26, 2014 Blocked shots, tipped shots, high/wide Jeff Carter's shots, etc and those things need to be tracked with your eyes. Some of those - the blocked ones in particular - can be tracked with different parts of your body Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JagerMeister Posted December 17, 2014 Share Posted December 17, 2014 Vladimir Kharlamov and Tretiak cometo mind Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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