2007-08-14 10:20:20 · 22 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Hockey
Erica, are you still hovering around?
2007-08-14 10:47:20 · update #1
Frank (is my skirt showing) Boucher. Played for the NY Rangers and won the Lady Byng seven times.
2007-08-14 10:53:17 · answer #1 · answered by Jeffrey S 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Who opts for the soda instead, you mean? :P
In general, Jean Beliveau gets my vote.
It almost sounds like you set up a contradiction there though, which can be proved untrue. If you meant that hockey players who fight would be considered ungentlemanly on the ice, fine. However, there are hockey players who fight, even enforcers, who are extremely gentlemanly off the ice. Georges Laraque is a good example; some consider him the heavyweight champion of the league, but he is very soft-spoken and good-natured off the ice. He's been known as a guy who does a lot in communities, as well.
ADD: ...What do you mean? Lol.
2007-08-14 17:35:41 · answer #2 · answered by Erica 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I'm surprised no one said this yet, but I'm going to exhibit obvious bias when I say: Ron Francis. I cannot recall Ronny F ever throwing down in a game. Furthermore, I cannot ever remember Francis ever saying anything bad about anyone, never turning away autograph seekers, never turning down an interview (especially when the Pens had a bad night back in the days of sandwiching the captaincy around Mario Lemieux). Just a stand up guy all-around, all class.
2007-08-14 19:39:26 · answer #3 · answered by Snoop 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'll have to second the Fonteyne answer, including his WHA career, Val had 15 minor penalties in 969 games.
There was a league wide joke in the early 70s that if you were playing Pittsburgh, leave one guy on the bench in case everybody else was penalized in a brawl because everybody knew Val wouldn't fight you, so you needed to make sure you had at least one player to play against him.
Val took a regular shift, checked people, just never took penalties!
2007-08-14 18:43:33 · answer #4 · answered by Like I'm Telling You Who I A 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
How could it not be 'The Great One?" Wayne was a class act both on and off the ice. He toted McSorley around with him for muscle. Although he had some penalties throughout his career he never played "dirty" hockey which we have come accustomed to seeing each and every year. Wayne was truly a ambassador to NHL hockey.
2007-08-14 21:30:02 · answer #5 · answered by Cold steel on ice 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Easily Val Fonteyne. Played 13 season and had a grand total of 26 PIMs. No all-star but a decent hardworking winger for Detroit, NY Rangers and Pittsburgh. Think he may also have played for Edmonton in the WHA, too.
2007-08-14 18:12:16 · answer #6 · answered by fugutastic 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
First of all WOW. Is it just me or has the quality of answers taken a sharp upturn recently? Some great answers from many eras. Keep up the good work people.
I'd vote for big Jean Beliveau. The one word I have heard used to discribe him most often is gentleman.
2007-08-14 22:51:12 · answer #7 · answered by PuckDat 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Frank Boucher of the NY Rangers won the Lady Byng eight seasons in a row in the mid thirties.......
2007-08-14 19:24:00 · answer #8 · answered by HockeyFan 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Wayne
Stevie Y
Bourque
Oates
Nieuwendyk
2007-08-14 19:02:47 · answer #9 · answered by The Caseman 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dean Prentice----I believe he played something like 17 years and never had a fight and only had a couple of penalties a year (never had a major for fighting)
2007-08-14 18:36:53 · answer #10 · answered by gumper11 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋