Ok, John Craighead scheint ernsthaft um den Goon-Roster-Spot bei den Nucks zu kämpfen.
Sein "Gegner": Mike Brown. Der hatte beim Preseason-game am Dienstag gegen die Oilers vorgelegt:
Gestern dann Craigheads Revenche:
Preseason-game gegen die Coyotes.
Erstes Drittel:
Penalties: B May, Pho (major fighting), 1:27;J Craighead, Van (major fighting), 1:27;
D Hordichuk, Pho (charging), 12:38; D Hordichuk, Pho (major fighting), 15:27; J Craighead, Van (major fighting).
Brown konnte nur einen nachlegen.
2. Drittel:
A Nazarov, Pho (major fighting), 14:37; M Brown, Van (major fighting), 14:37;
Ach ja, das Spiel endete 2-1 für Vancouver und enthielt 8 fighting majors, also ein ziemlich normales Preseason-game.
Way to go Johnny, keep up the fight !
Noch ein paar Meinungen dazu:
Craighead looked pretty good. Hes a good fighter, and he plays a lot better than the waste of space Brown. His fight with Nazarov, which lasted so long they were groping eachother and gasping for air, was well fought.
Craighead started the first fight with Brad May. He hit May high behind Cloutier, which started the fight. Pretty even, with both guys landing punches, then John got the upper hand near the end, as his physical fitness prevailed. He started landed a few. Pretty good start IMO. In the second period, Hordichuck jumped him, clearly going after John when he wasn't expecting it, but that fight ended with John getting the upper hand as usual. Although I will say they were pretty tough scraps. Brown decided he better do something so he went twice also. Im sorry but this guy is just not NHL calibre IMO
lol @ craighead dropping the gloves just over a minute into the game
craighead dropped the gloves for the second time in the first period.
he might just take mike brown's place as enforcer
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.....wie gesagt, ist mir scheiß egal wie sie gespielt haben, solange es nicht in der
Saison so ist!! Vorbereitung ist da um zu lernen, um auszuprobieren, etc., und nicht um zu glänzen!! der schon das leere Tor vor sich hatte, aber sein Jubel zerbrach am Reflex von Lions-Goalie Dominic Roussel, der aus dem Nichts auftauchte und mit dem Fuß abwehrte.
Dazu hab ich einen sehr sehr lesenswerten Artikel gefunden. Auch wenn er in Englisch ist, macht euch mal die Mühe, ist wirklich interessant, vor allem die Aussagen von zB Mike Modano.
Tough guys still have a big role
September 24, 2002
Tim Wharnsby
For The Sporting News
Plenty of peculiar sightings dotted the NHL landscape when training camps opened across North America, but most striking was a proliferation of pugilists.
In Calgary, the Flames had a former Ultimate Fighter battling for a spot. Mike Sgroi is a 6-5, 210-pound forward whose pro experience, except for four games with the AHL's Chicago Wolves, has been limited to the East Coast and United leagues.
At the Canucks' camp in Burnaby, British Columbia, 6-1, 200-pound John Craighead, who was used sparingly in five games by the Maple Leafs six seasons ago, was trying to crack the lineup after playing the past five seasons in Germany.
Aaron Downey, who trains every summer with a former Navy Golden Gloves champion, was in Breckenridge, Colo., at the Stars' camp. Krzysztof Oliwa, 6-5, 235, was attending the Rangers' camp in Burlington, Vt., and 6-3, 205-pound Brantt Myhres, who didn't play anywhere last season, was receiving a look at the Bruins' camp in Boston. The Thrashers had high hopes for 6-2, 220-pound Francis Lessard, who had a whopping 416 penalty minutes with the Philadelphia Phantoms of the AHL in 1999-2000.
Did the teams that invited these guys not receive the league memo about the interference and obstruction crackdown? The enforcement of those rules is supposed to return the game to skilled players. Scoring will go up. Skating is a must. Goons need not apply.
"For the last few years I thought it has become harder and harder to employ players of this type because you now need everybody contributing," says Flyers GM Bob Clarke, who should know all about enforcers after playing his entire career with the Broad Street Bullies.*ROTFL*
Clarke employs muscle in Donald Brashear, but at least Brashear has 57 career goals.
"A smart coach notices when (an enforcer) is out there and immediately puts out his best player," Clarke says of creating a favorable skills matchup. "You want toughness because you don't want your best players to get abused. But it's a fine line in finding an enforcer-type player who can contribute."
Oliwa has that experience and will be an asset in protecting such players as Eric Lindros and Pavel Bure. But Craighead, Myhres, Lessard and Sgroi have yet to prove themselves at the NHL level.
The 6-1, 210-pound Downey, on the other hand, has been welcomed into the Stars' fold. The Stars have been without a true enforcer since 1998-99, when Brent Severyn played 30 games for the team that won the Stanley Cup.
Former Stars coach Ken Hitchcock, now the Flyers' coach, had difficulty finding ice time for enforcers, so he went without them the past three seasons. Mike Modano believes he and the top players on the Stars were knocked around because other teams didn't have to answer to a player such as Downey. Modano expressed that concern to GM Doug Armstrong during the summer, so Armstrong brought in Downey.
"It was time to stop turning the other cheek," Armstrong says. "We needed a player who knows that role. I believe that when you have a tough guy like Aaron, the toughness filters down the lineup."
Modano believes the abuse he and his teammates took last season wore down the Stars physically, and as a result they had nothing left for a run at the playoffs.
The Stars made the right move in bringing in Downey, even though he has scored just once in 40 NHL games. Having a similar-style player sure didn't hurt the last free-flowing, offensive-minded team that dominated the league. The Oilers won five Stanley Cups from 1984 through 1990 with such players as Marty McSorley and Dave Semenko. And those two were transformed into decent players practicing every day against Wayne Gretzky, Mark Messier and Co.
The Stars -- and the other teams bringing in the heavyweights -- hope for the same results.
Was freu ich mich auf diese NHL Saison
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Der schwarze Mann auf dem Foto ist aber nicht Johnny Craighead, sondern Big Georges "The Rock" Laraque !!!
Greetz, DOC If you can't beat em, at least beat'em up ! In real life you get 5 years, on the ice only 5 minutes... Norrie/Rich/Tasker/Verbeek/Lakos - Toledo Storm Fighting Brigade 2001 24 Fäuste für ein Hallelujah ! Fuenfte-Reihe.de If you SMMEEEEELLL...what the DOC is cooking...!!!
Oh, ich sehe gerade, Du wolltest ein Foto vom Kampf zeigen, in dem Brown vorgelegt hat...
...mein Fauxpas !
Kann mir ja üüüüüberhaupt net vorstellen, wie der Brown-Laraque-Fight geendet hat...
Greetz, DOC If you can't beat em, at least beat'em up ! In real life you get 5 years, on the ice only 5 minutes... Norrie/Rich/Tasker/Verbeek/Lakos - Toledo Storm Fighting Brigade 2001 24 Fäuste für ein Hallelujah ! Fuenfte-Reihe.de If you SMMEEEEELLL...what the DOC is cooking...!!!
In Antwort auf:The Thrashers had high hopes for 6-2, 220-pound Francis Lessard, who had a whopping 416 penalty minutes with the Philadelphia Phantoms of the AHL in 1999-2000.
...einer meiner Minor League Faves...
Greetz, DOC If you can't beat em, at least beat'em up ! In real life you get 5 years, on the ice only 5 minutes... Norrie/Rich/Tasker/Verbeek/Lakos - Toledo Storm Fighting Brigade 2001 24 Fäuste für ein Hallelujah ! Fuenfte-Reihe.de If you SMMEEEEELLL...what the DOC is cooking...!!!
Bitte sagt mir bescheid, wenn Craighead blutüberströmt vom Eis getragen wird ...
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In Antwort auf:Ich raffs net das hier über dies Arschloch auch nur ein Wort verloren wird...
Jeder Goon, der sich einem Fight stellt, hat Respekt verdient , egal ob man ihn persönlich mag oder nicht. Der Job ist von allen der härteste und sich für's Team aufopfern und auch mal die Nase hinhalten zeugt von starker Moral und Siegeswille...
Greetz, DOC
P.S.: Isch maag ihn ja persönlisch aach net... If you can't beat em, at least beat'em up ! In real life you get 5 years, on the ice only 5 minutes... Norrie/Rich/Tasker/Verbeek/Lakos - Toledo Storm Fighting Brigade 2001 24 Fäuste für ein Hallelujah ! Fuenfte-Reihe.de If you SMMEEEEELLL...what the DOC is cooking...!!!
In Antwort auf: Jeder Goon, der sich einem Fight stellt, hat Respekt verdient , egal ob man ihn persönlich mag oder nicht. Der Job ist von allen der härteste und sich für's Team aufopfern und auch mal die Nase hinhalten zeugt von starker Moral und Siegeswille...
You said it !! Absolutely right !
...ohne Gegner wäre auch Hazy nicht der Held gewesen.
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In real life you get 5 years, on the ice only 5 minutes...
Norrie/Rich/Tasker/Verbeek/Lakos - Toledo Storm Fighting Brigade 2001
, egal ob man ihn persönlich mag oder nicht. Der Job ist von allen der härteste und sich für's Team aufopfern und auch mal die Nase hinhalten zeugt von starker Moral und Siegeswille...