OMG! Playoff game. Lindros, head down skating across the blue line. Stevens absolutey crushed him. Not sure how long u all have followed hockey, but my first memories of Stevens was as a Capital. on the local sports station back then, HTS, they would play video highlights of him to the tune of Scandal - "The Warrior." i'm almost positive that was the song. it was either that or Pat Benatar - "Hit Me w/ Your Best Shot."

his hipchecks were amazing. back then he was quite the fighter also. he toned down as he got older.

I have to hate Scott Stevens being a Ranger fan (especially back in the old Cap days with Rod Langway et al), but I have the utmost respect for him. A winner, a warrior, and a first ballot Hall of Famer!

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understandable....
it's all good. he's definitely one of those players that u love to hate, but would love to have on your team. he was what Matthew Barnaby now is.

To put it in the Larry Holmes vernacular, Matthew Barnaby couldn't hold Scott Stevens' jock strap! I hated Stevens because he was good, while also being the toughest SOB on the ice. I didn't even like Barnaby when he was a Ranger, and I assume most people hate him because he is just plain annoying (on the ice--I don't know him personally).

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skillwise definitely. he can't come close to Stevens.
Barnaby just seemed to be one of those guys that played w/ so much more intensity than most; however, it could have just seemed that way because he was always annoying everyone.

Barnaby's "annoyance levels" don't even hold a candel to Ulf Sammuelson's. Ulfie was hated by almost every player in the league.

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Ulf was a cheap sunovabiatch! Trading Peter Nedved and Sergei Zubov for Luc Robataille and Ulfie was one of the worst deals ever. I could never get used to Ulf playing for the Blueshirts.

I dunno though. I think early Scott Stevens close to, if not equal to, Ulf. But Ulf was a prick for an entire career--Stevens grew up.

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i never thought Scotty was a dirty player. in his early years, that guy could fight and check like no one else. i don't believe that fighting alone makes u a dirty player though. dirty to me are the cheap shot artists that punch people in the back of the head or whack them in the head w/ their sticks (Dino Cicarelli, Marty McSorley). scotty would just line someone up and crush them w/ hipchecks or any other legal checks. then again, i could be such a Stevens fan that i never noticed his abilitly to be a dirty player.