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Originally Posted by Kevin
Lemieux- I’d have to say he was the best player I ever saw play: let’s say 1979 to present day. How was he 1:1? I have a lot of respect for him, but his whining after the brawl game I discussed above was pretty weak.
When I was really little, 1977, 78? I was at a game and we were in our “other seats” in 301. It was the pre game skate. Isles-Flyers brawl. Thinking back at most of the games I ever attended, we were rarely at the pre game skate. But this day we were. All the player - Isles/Flyers - paired off - brawling.
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Ever catch the video on youtube of the Flyers-Canadiens pre game brawl where Chris Nilan and Dave Brown go at it. Claude Lemieux shot the puck into the Flyers net after warm ups, and the Flyers didn't like it. I was at a Devils-Flyers game in Philadelphia years later and Brown caught Lemieux at center ice, and Claude Lemieux turtled while Brown threw punches. Brown never forgot.