I understand Kyte's frustration. Before the instigator rule players had to be ready to back up their dirty play. Now not so much as they just hide behind the refs.
Kyte wasn't a very good hockey player but IIRC he killed us in a playoff series with San Jose.
Gallagher is such a little sonofabitch out there. He really toes the line of respectability IMO. I just hope he doesn't turn into Burrows in the name of finding a way to win.
And I honestly don't blame Kyte at all. Who wouldn't want to punch this guy?
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Kyte really comes off as a dingus here. Funny comments from someone who was tough but had very little in the way of talent. Jim is the guy who wouldn't have a place in the NHL today and that's a good thing. Gallagher has more talent in his pinky than Kyte ever had (yes I went there).
He's acting like rats didn't exist in the 80s. Do the names Linseman, Tikkanen, Marchment, Samuelsson or C.Lemieux ring a bell?
This instigator business is so overblown. I'm sick of hearing about it to be honest. Its percieved impact on dirty play is a total fallacy IMO. Fighting can't go away soon enough as far as I'm concerned, it's a relic of a bygone era that serves no purpose.
I'd take Gallagher or Marchand on this team in a nanosecond. If we could only be so lucky...
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The game has evolved into a fast paced skilled exciting game?
What!?!?!?!?
The leading scorer last year barely broke a point a game. The NHL has resorted to cheap tricks and gimmicks to increase entertainment value. They've had to institute all kinds of rules to promote scoring.
What league is this little nutball talking about hahahahaa
I remember reading a story about how he learned to compensate for his inability to hear by looking into the reflection of the glass to see what was behind him when he was chasing down a puck.
Didn't he get knocked da eff out by Probert? Broken helmet and everything?
Not only was Kyte a terrible player he was a brutal fighter as well, regularly a middle weight would knock him senseless, Rob Ray destroyed him a few times and even little Rob DiMaio beat the crap out of him... a human punching bag with a big mouth and glass jaw.
These guys like Jim Kyte that keep going on about how the NHL was so full of honour and integrity before the instigator penalty was adopted have such selective memory it makes my brain hurt.
A guy like Mark Messier probably commited more cheap shots in his career than the entire current active NHLPA membership, and there were a bunch of guys like that in the league in the 70s and 80s.
Dirty elbows, sucker punches, hits from behind, stick swinging incidents. All of these things are way, way down from the era Jim Kyte played in.
When is the last time we saw an incident like Domi's elbow to Scott Niedermayer in the playoffs? It's been years. The game is cleaner than it has ever been. Maybe guys like Jim Kyte are just upset that the no-talent enforcer types are being phased out of the game.
I don't like the weasel type players either but they have always been part of the game, and I don't see any increase in their numbers. They existed before the instigator penalty in about the same numbers.
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These guys like Jim Kyte that keep going on about how the NHL was so full of honour and integrity before the instigator penalty was adopted have such selective memory it makes my brain hurt.
A guy like Mark Messier probably commited more cheap shots in his career than the entire current active NHLPA membership, and there were a bunch of guys like that in the league in the 70s and 80s.
Dirty elbows, sucker punches, hits from behind, stick swinging incidents. All of these things are way, way down from the era Jim Kyte played in.
When is the last time we saw an incident like Domi's elbow to Scott Niedermayer in the playoffs? It's been years. The game is cleaner than it has ever been. Maybe guys like Jim Kyte are just upset that the no-talent enforcer types are being phased out of the game.
I don't like the weasel type players either but they have always been part of the game, and I don't see any increase in their numbers. They existed before the instigator penalty in about the same numbers.
You aren't wrong, but I think the honorable part in their mind is facing the music afterwards. Take Burrows, he's given out a fraction of the cheap shots Messier did, but I'd without a doubt say Messier was a more honorable player because he he didn't run and after his cheap shots.
Brendan Gallagher and Jim Kyte have hilarious Twitter fight
