I'm pretty sure that the Japanese people at Konami, when they decided to make a ice hockey video game, tuned in to the NHL to see what they could put in their game to make it appealing and fun. It was during that time that Ron Hextall had arrived in the NHL. I would bet that they saw footage of Ron Hextall going crazy. This could explain why the goalie seems so damn angry in that game and that he is pretty much the most dangerous player on the ice, destroying any player that touched him.
I met Hextall after his fighting suspension against Chris Chelios. I told him Chelios deserved it. He paused and with the slightest smirk said, "oh no, you can't do stuff like that". I replied, "you mean just not caught". He gave a FULL smile and said, "Nah, just can't do that."
Denis Potvins brother JEAN , who incidentally also played for the ISLANDERS , was an 8th degree Black belt who could have wiped out the entire FLYERS team if he was allowed to use his skates while using kicking techniques 😂😂😂
After his first 3 seasons in the NHL (including playoffs), his stats were: Was the only goalie to play in 60 or more games in all 3 seasons 122 wins 19 ties 3 shutouts 2 goals scored 23 assists 407 penalty minutes 6,260 saves Just crazy how he combined goalie stats with defensive d-man scoring stats and enforcer/goon penalty stats. He couldn't keep that up though, and after those first 3 seasons the magic was gone due to several different things. For starters, approaching his 4th season he chose not to attend training camp, and he held out due to contract disputes, and when he finally returned, with the season already under way (due to being suspended from the season before) he did not have a good year at all. He was constantly battling with groin and hamstring injuries which kept him out of the lineup.
I wouldn’t say sinked we were bound to drop off at some point anyways hextall just sped it up a bit now Dubas is fixing some of the problems and slowing it down 🤗 @faunbudweis
I think it's funny that you said Hextall got his ass beat,,, watch that fight again,,, it was a good fight by both,,, just a good Tilt,,, it was a Draw...
Fun fact I played with Ron Hextall‘s son Brett for three seasons and we became really close friends I’ve spent countless nights over his house, dinner, road trips he was a great guy
Hack-stall as we used to call him, underestimated Potvin. He assumed the small, unassuming goalie would get demolished. Boy was he wrong! Potvin held his own against the more aggressive Hextall. Still, I have to give credit where it's due. He was a great goalie who got the job done.
As a diehard Flyers fan and huge Hexi fan growing up, I gained an incredible amount of respect for Felix that day. I ended up with a few “Felix the Cat Potvin” posters in my room including a 4-panel of the fight ending with Hexi’s bloody head. Loved both goalies.
Canadian from Ontario, was a Make believe fan..Ballard and his crap jumped to Philly. It was Hextall that kept and made us true fans. Love you man! Thanks
27# Ron Hextall Drafted: 119th overall by Philadelphia Flyers, 1982. # 13 NHL seasons - Representing 3 NHL teams: 2x Philadelphia Flyers (1986-92 & 1994-99), Quebec Nordiques (1992-93) & New York Islanders (1993-94). # 2 AHL seasons - Representing: Hershey Bears (1984-86) + 1 AHL game in 1989. # 1 IHL season - Representing: Kalamazoo Wings (1984-85) # 2x Stanley Cup finals: 1987 & 1997 (Flyers). # 1992 IIHF World Championship: 5th place (Canada). # Conn Smythe Trophy (play-off MVP): 1987. # Vezina Trophy (Best goaltender): 1987. # NHL first All-Star team: 1987. # NHL All-Star Game player: 1987. # 3x Bobby Clarke Trophy (Flyers MVP): 1987, 1988 & 1989. # Inducted into Flyers Hall of Fame: 2008. # Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award (AHL rookie of the year): 1986. # AHL First All-Star Team: 1986. # NHL RECORD: - Most penalty minutes by a goaltender in a single season - 113 (1988-89 season). # FLYERS RECORDS: - Most career games played by a goaltender - 489 - Most career wins - 240 - Most career playoff wins - 45 - Most career points by a goaltender - 28 - Most career penalty minutes by a goaltender - 476
I love his road to the NHL. Drafted very low. All over the place in youth hockey. His persistence goes to show young players hard work, gives you a chance to play at the NHL, or possibly even college hockey if you don't make it to the NHL.
@@robertkirchner8857 Yes indeed! You don't make the NHL but still is tallented or a great worker on the ice the college leagues and professional market over the Atlantic still is great solid! The money and leagues are great (after NHL that is) and good enougn, you can play for your national team in IIHF WC tournaments etc. Heck I would have easily taken that road if I did not cut in NHL but was better then generic in AHL.
I was there…’80’s Oiler Season ticket holder. You can’t script this stuff; The Oilers faced the Islanders back-to-back…in both the ‘83, (we were swept) & ‘84, (we won, 4-1) finals. This was facing Billy Smith. For our 2nd & 3rd Stanley Cup victories, we battled Ron Hextall & the Flyers, in ‘85 & ‘87. Our fearless kamikaze, Glenn Anderson going full tilt at the then, non-magnetic moored goalie nets & those 2 legends, was not for the faint hearted!! 🇨🇦
@@loilt5091i hear ya buddy boy but you just showed how you can script this stuff 😂 and they did! Islanders and Oilers, new teams! Just like Vegas and Seattle Kraken, how do you get seats in those new teams arenas? Fix it for them to win!
If you're not from the Philly area, you can't appreciate Hexy. Hexy was and is Philly. We will battle and as long as you respect us, we'll just compete. If you disrespect us, we're going to take you to fist city. I was at the Spectrum for a game and during TV time, Hextall lightly wristed the puck down the ice. The other goalie gets the puck and wrists it back down the ice. Now the crowd is getting louder. Hexy fires the puck a little harder right at the other goal. Now it's getting really loud. Goalie shoots the puck back at Hextall. Still in TV time where the players are at their benches. Bldg is now at the loudest I've ever heard. Hexy winds up and drives the puck with everything he had. We went frigging nuts. Loved Hextall.
That still bothers me as Pelle Lindbergh was way to young to have died….the accident was caused by the combination of drinking and having 3 people in a Porsche that barely fit 2..
I remember when he went after Chelios. The habs were up by two goals with a few minutes left, but anything could have happened. It was great to see Hextall give up on his team.
Great video. I love Hextall, we all did. At the '96 Hockey World Cup semi0finals in Philly, USA v. Canada, the only USA player we booed was Chris Chelios. . . but getting to boo our star Eric Lindros because he was playing for the other team that one time, awesome.
I hated the guy but you're right, goalies all play the same style now and it's boring. One thing that drives me nuts is almost always being down on your pads. For years I tried the 'butterfly' style like Esposito, my knees are both shot.
There arent any lunatic characters like hextall left in the league these days that give it the personality and intensity it used to have. Today's players are robots and the game just feels so sterile compared to the 80s and 90s hockey I grew up with.
The 80s and early 90s were the greatest. The late 90s and early 2000s were the worst. Slow play, hardly any goals, they call it the dead puck era for a reason. @@brettrossi034
Far from psychopath.you have not not watched enough hockey.passionate is a better word.i could name ten players that might fit that description better.
Grandpa Hextall groomed the fire in his belly and his Pops and Uncle kept it stoked. The Flyers were a perfect fit for the Flyers and their grind you down style after the Bullies moved on. The Flyers were blessed scooping him up after Pelle Lindbergh’s unfortunate passing. Unfortunately like teams of the time they ran into the Edmonton juggernaut and succumbed valiantly. He definitely was one of a kind and one of many personalities that made the NHL the game I’ve loved for following 60 years.
I seen Ron play many times in the AHL as a kid when I'd go to my hometown teams games of the Binghamton Whalers. He definitely liked to mix it up and was a fan favorite to yell at and mock.
The flyers wrecked hockey for a decade. Hockey was always a rough sport but they turned it into thuggery. It lost its beauty for awhile. Now, it’s back and even better. Speed, passing, shooting.
That was team owner Ed Snyders doing….he was getting irritable watching his new expansion team get thrown around and bullied. Thus came the Broad Street Bullies with Shultzie, Kelly, Barber, Brown etc etc
John Vanbiesbrouck was pretty when it came to slashing players legs. Especially the back of the ankles. I used to be amazed at how many times he'd do it per game when I used to go to Rangers games all the time
Lightning strikes once, but Next all strikes twice! 😉 Man.... You felt it in your ankles and shins...trying to screen Hexy! He would chop ya like a lumberjack. Was built to be a Flyer lol. Let's go Flyers!!!
He was a one man show in ‘87, only reason they got within 1 game of the SC. He also was locked in the bathroom in Montreal for the legendary prefight because he would have ki**ed someone .
I loved his crazy style. Being bad tempered a bit myself, it was great to see guys like him succeed ha ha. I still rooted against him, not being a Flyers fan, but I liked his style and intensity. I recall the Chelios incident, but not the hit Chelios did earlier. He wasn't suspended for that???
.. Hextall is an iconic goaltender , my friends would share some really crazy stuff about what they did to each other in the juniors , hehehe .. all in fun in the game we all love .. . 😂
Yup, I remember him well, we nicked named him " Hacker Hecstall" I grow up in Cannington Ont Canada & the bith place of Rick Maclesh who played in the NHL a team mate of his.
Maclesh's goaltender was Bernie Parent. He was a fantastic player though. I Will be returning to cannington mens over 40 league this year after sitting last season for torn rotator cuff surgery. Rough old timers league there as well. Lol.
Howdy, I was also goalie, trained under Clint Malarchuk, Mike Vernon, just to name a couple, was scouted by the Calgary Flames, and back in those days, Ron Hextall, was known as Ron " Hacksall " lol
It can be argued that Hextall COST the Flyers the '87 Cup. That series was too close for comfort as far as I was concerned. Had the Flyers not had to kill off the penalties of several teammates, but in particular Hextall... Well, it's just a thought.
11:00 Is it just me, or is that mask very similar to the one Bob Froess wore, whe he was league leader in GAA (but I'm just remembering a hockey card that Froess had in the 85-86 OPC SET. it was the final card of the set, I beleive.
My second favorite goalie of all time!! By the way, Chelios should have gotten a lot worse than Hextall going after him. That cheap shot on Brian Propp didn't get any real penalty from the league, but Hextall continued to get penalties where people didn't even get injured.
13:30 NO. Hextall, not winning the calder, was not the biggest upset, in any time. Just my opinion but dont you think talking about end of season awards, before speaking of playoffs number to be confusing! For people who don't know. TROPHIES ARE VOTED FOR, BEFORE THE PLAYOFFS. So people deciding who was rookie of the was. That's why 'Manson' on skates' did not win it.
Man I miss those real goal pads. Big, heavy when wet and so cool looking. So much better than the sponge cushions goalies use today. Oh yeah, and Hextall was a menace on the ice. His goalie record for penalty minutes will likely never be beat.
Hextall did not play in game 7 at Pittsburgh in round two of the 1989 playoffs - Ken Wregget won that game and game one in the conference final in Montreal.
No, the biggest psychopath in hockey was Goldie Goldthorpe. In most cases, the toughest guys in hockey are usually the nicest guys off the ice and Goldthorpe’s case that was an exception
You could argue that he was the biggest psychopath in the NHL, but I'm not sure I would agree he was the biggest psychopath in hockey. Goldie Goldthorpe is some pretty tough competition to beat there.
My dad played against Ron Hextall when he was 14 in Manitoba and said he was nothing special except that he was bat shit crazy. That all he remembers him for.
If anyone is willing to listen I could tell them Hextalls vision for the Flyers. Also, Mr Snider still promoted and signed off on this plan with the possibility he likely wouldn't be alive to see this thru. Anyways I could break it down and I think it'll change a whole lot of peoples perception of GM Ron Hextall if anyone is willing to listen
I didn't watch this past the first few seconds. Felix Potvin kicked Hextall's ass. Like it wasn't even close. Why start your video showing him charging u the ice, just to cut it off? Useless editing. Oh, btw, what did he ever win? A Stanley Cup? NOPE!
28:50 I now have that photo erched into my Brain. How many times did you use it? Feels like 10. lol Should have asked me. I could have sent you 50 different hocky cards and 22 issues of the hockey news, from some of the best moments in these stories. I was a Hige fan of the man and cheered him, unless he was playing the Canadians!! I think we battled 3 times Montreal Vs, Ron Hextall 87 Flyers Won in 6 89 Mnt Won in 6 93 Mnt vs Qc. /Mnt in 6 Tough Goalie, tough man, Surprised he's done well, in a suit and tie. Good for Him
Before he tore his hamstring he was a monster..winning conn smythe on a losing team..unheard of. After the injury he was never the same. Im sorry flyers fan here i couldn't stand him. Couldn't trust him. If those flyers teams from 95,96,97 had a legit number 1 they could have easily won a cup. It was the only weakness they had. Despite Colorado and Detroit being really good the games were all close except 1..he was giving up slap shots from blue line with no screens, off rush, was terrible on breakaways and one timer's, wouldn't put his stick down to cover five hole. So frustrating watching those great teams lose bc of their goaltending. Then he goes to la after botching Pittsburgh too only to win 2 cups in 3 years and going to conference finals 3 straight years 2012-14. Im also shocked he didn't hurt someone while playing but it was a different game and era. You could get away with murder in his playing days almost literally
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I'm pretty sure that the Japanese people at Konami, when they decided to make a ice hockey video game, tuned in to the NHL to see what they could put in their game to make it appealing and fun. It was during that time that Ron Hextall had arrived in the NHL. I would bet that they saw footage of Ron Hextall going crazy. This could explain why the goalie seems so damn angry in that game and that he is pretty much the most dangerous player on the ice, destroying any player that touched him.
Blades of Steel! Great game. The goaltender is always beating the ice and flailing his arms upward after a goal 😂
konami blades of steel a classic
Except Felix potvin
@@TheFlamingPike Billy smith and Patrick Roy were psychopaths around that time too
I met Hextall after his fighting suspension against Chris Chelios. I told him Chelios deserved it. He paused and with the slightest smirk said, "oh no, you can't do stuff like that". I replied, "you mean just not caught". He gave a FULL smile and said, "Nah, just can't do that."
Hextall I remember was once described as "mobile, agile, and hostile"
That sums it up best
12:06 “Chevier is just getting murdered by Philadelphia’s Hextall.” Being said like it was another Tuesday is so funny.
The Potvin fight was unreal.
Potvin filled him in
Potvin won the fight. Was probably top 5 goalie fights of all time though.
Denis Potvins brother JEAN , who incidentally also played for the ISLANDERS , was an 8th degree Black belt who could have wiped out the entire FLYERS team if he was allowed to use his skates while using kicking techniques 😂😂😂
After his first 3 seasons in the NHL (including playoffs), his stats were:
Was the only goalie to play in 60 or more games in all 3 seasons
122 wins
19 ties
3 shutouts
2 goals scored
23 assists
407 penalty minutes
6,260 saves
Just crazy how he combined goalie stats with defensive d-man scoring stats and enforcer/goon penalty stats.
He couldn't keep that up though, and after those first 3 seasons the magic was gone due to several different things. For starters, approaching his 4th season he chose not to attend training camp, and he held out due to contract disputes, and when he finally returned, with the season already under way (due to being suspended from the season before) he did not have a good year at all. He was constantly battling with groin and hamstring injuries which kept him out of the lineup.
93 losses (you somehow forgot to include that)
Thank you @@Radwar99
because someone sat his penalties ;)
There is no doubt about it. Hexi was a little Coo Coo for Cocopuffs!
Not to mention he was a great mole for Philly when he worked as a GM in Pittsburgh, the guy was on a mission to sink that team and he did! :)
He did the same to Philly before he moved on to ruin Pittsburgh. Flyers are still digging out of that hole.
I wouldn’t say sinked we were bound to drop off at some point anyways hextall just sped it up a bit now Dubas is fixing some of the problems and slowing it down 🤗 @faunbudweis
Thanks for proving that only j@goffs come out of Philthadelphia...
Wins a cup and this goof thinks he sank the team. What does sank the team even mean? Never heard that before
@@chrisdaddy4637 Is that you Ronnie? The limited lexis would suggest so.. :)
Hextall was a unique guy at a unique time in the sport. Well deserved legend.
Hackstall was a greasy POS chopping away at people with his weapon
Felix Potvin laid a beating on Hextall. I guarantee he didn't expect that.
I remember watching that game. Potvin was legend.
Best goalie fight ever.Hextall got his ass handed to him.
I think it's funny that you said Hextall got his ass beat,,, watch that fight again,,, it was a good fight by both,,, just a good Tilt,,, it was a Draw...
@@chickreeves3413 Hello delusional. Don't listen to the voices in your head.
Fun fact I played with Ron Hextall‘s son Brett for three seasons and we became really close friends I’ve spent countless nights over his house, dinner, road trips he was a great guy
The occasional soft goal is like saying he occasionally got a little angry. An absolute legend.
Who didn’t wanna watch this guy play?…. A LEGEND!!!!!
1994 😂😂😂😂😂
How many cups does this guy have? You can’t be a legend when you didn’t do anything more worthy
@@robjohnson3454lol what a dumb comment
Did you just say a legend didn't want to watch him play?
*All Philly fans are bandwagon fans… quickest to boo their own team*
Potvin went toe to toe with nutcase and easily stood his ground.....
Felix the Cat...
Hack-stall as we used to call him, underestimated Potvin. He assumed the small, unassuming goalie would get demolished. Boy was he wrong! Potvin held his own against the more aggressive Hextall. Still, I have to give credit where it's due. He was a great goalie who got the job done.
I'll never forget that game. Potvin left him leaking 😅
As a diehard Flyers fan and huge Hexi fan growing up, I gained an incredible amount of respect for Felix that day. I ended up with a few “Felix the Cat Potvin” posters in my room including a 4-panel of the fight ending with Hexi’s bloody head. Loved both goalies.
Canadian from Ontario, was a Make believe fan..Ballard and his crap jumped to Philly. It was Hextall that kept and made us true fans. Love you man! Thanks
Will always be my favorite Flyer. When those posts clanked, you knew it was on.
27# Ron Hextall
Drafted: 119th overall by Philadelphia Flyers, 1982.
# 13 NHL seasons - Representing 3 NHL teams: 2x Philadelphia Flyers (1986-92 & 1994-99), Quebec Nordiques (1992-93) & New York Islanders (1993-94).
# 2 AHL seasons - Representing: Hershey Bears (1984-86) + 1 AHL game in 1989.
# 1 IHL season - Representing: Kalamazoo Wings (1984-85)
# 2x Stanley Cup finals: 1987 & 1997 (Flyers).
# 1992 IIHF World Championship: 5th place (Canada).
# Conn Smythe Trophy (play-off MVP): 1987.
# Vezina Trophy (Best goaltender): 1987.
# NHL first All-Star team: 1987.
# NHL All-Star Game player: 1987.
# 3x Bobby Clarke Trophy (Flyers MVP): 1987, 1988 & 1989.
# Inducted into Flyers Hall of Fame: 2008.
# Dudley "Red" Garrett Memorial Award (AHL rookie of the year): 1986.
# AHL First All-Star Team: 1986.
# NHL RECORD:
- Most penalty minutes by a goaltender in a single season - 113 (1988-89 season).
# FLYERS RECORDS:
- Most career games played by a goaltender - 489
- Most career wins - 240
- Most career playoff wins - 45
- Most career points by a goaltender - 28
- Most career penalty minutes by a goaltender - 476
I love his road to the NHL. Drafted very low. All over the place in youth hockey. His persistence goes to show young players hard work, gives you a chance to play at the NHL, or possibly even college hockey if you don't make it to the NHL.
@@robertkirchner8857 Yes indeed! You don't make the NHL but still is tallented or a great worker on the ice the college leagues and professional market over the Atlantic still is great solid! The money and leagues are great (after NHL that is) and good enougn, you can play for your national team in IIHF WC tournaments etc.
Heck I would have easily taken that road if I did not cut in NHL but was better then generic in AHL.
Hextall, what a legend. I miss those days. Billy Smith was a battler too
I was there…’80’s Oiler Season ticket holder. You can’t script this stuff;
The Oilers faced the Islanders back-to-back…in both the ‘83, (we were swept) & ‘84, (we won, 4-1) finals. This was facing Billy Smith.
For our 2nd & 3rd Stanley Cup victories, we battled Ron Hextall & the Flyers, in ‘85 & ‘87.
Our fearless kamikaze, Glenn Anderson going full tilt at the then, non-magnetic moored goalie nets & those 2 legends, was not for the faint hearted!!
🇨🇦
@@loilt5091i hear ya buddy boy but you just showed how you can script this stuff 😂 and they did! Islanders and Oilers, new teams! Just like Vegas and Seattle Kraken, how do you get seats in those new teams arenas? Fix it for them to win!
Born in Edmonton I naturally hated both guys until I started playing goal. Then I understood.
@@QueensNewYorkguy Vegas! Worst team name ever, ugliest uniforms and helmets with gold paint?
@@dicksonfranssen Goalies sure took a lot of abuse in those days
Im absolutely loving this hockey documentaries. Really good work man keep it up!!
If you're not from the Philly area, you can't appreciate Hexy. Hexy was and is Philly. We will battle and as long as you respect us, we'll just compete. If you disrespect us, we're going to take you to fist city. I was at the Spectrum for a game and during TV time, Hextall lightly wristed the puck down the ice. The other goalie gets the puck and wrists it back down the ice. Now the crowd is getting louder. Hexy fires the puck a little harder right at the other goal. Now it's getting really loud. Goalie shoots the puck back at Hextall. Still in TV time where the players are at their benches. Bldg is now at the loudest I've ever heard. Hexy winds up and drives the puck with everything he had. We went frigging nuts. Loved Hextall.
Hextal was a great goalie and he does represent Philly. I miss those days.
Shittiest sports town in history!
Pelle Lindbergh....may he continue to rest in peace . If he didn't pass prematurely, Hextall would never had played for the Flyers
I remember crying on the Sunday morning when that crash was announced. He should have called a cab.
That still bothers me as Pelle Lindbergh was way to young to have died….the accident was caused by the combination of drinking and having 3 people in a Porsche that barely fit 2..
Over 400 pim for a goalie is absolutely wild.
Felix potvin whooped his a$$
He think he’s bad all he wants but Felix Potvin tuned him in
Yeah I was watching the game on TV and little Felix really surprised me at how tuff the kid was. He beat the shit out of Hextall. LOL
He knows he's bad. He didn't fight for the win when he fought, he fought for the fight. Anything to cause chaos.
I loved watching Felix Potvin eating his lunch... priceless.
I had every poster of Hextall on my walls growing up. I love this guy!
Hextall was a madman
I remember when he went after Chelios. The habs were up by two goals with a few minutes left, but anything could have happened. It was great to see Hextall give up on his team.
Great video. I love Hextall, we all did. At the '96 Hockey World Cup semi0finals in Philly, USA v. Canada, the only USA player we booed was Chris Chelios. . . but getting to boo our star Eric Lindros because he was playing for the other team that one time, awesome.
Interesting that you didn’t show the complete fight with Felix Potvin….. a solid W for Felix ✅
Wish I could bro! The whole original intro was the fight, but the nhl didn’t seem to like that and kept claiming it!!
Such a shame we don't see goaltenders like Hextall anymore.
I hated the guy but you're right, goalies all play the same style now and it's boring. One thing that drives me nuts is almost always being down on your pads. For years I tried the 'butterfly' style like Esposito, my knees are both shot.
We did--Rick DiPietro thought he was Ron Hextall
Rick was a walking ace bandage!
@@suburbanindieDipietro is a Boston kid, and he’s got the Beantown attitude to go with it
@@marctodisco he certainly does. Literally the only athlete I’ve met that wasn’t nice
Millhouse tied to the pipes I am Dead 🤣
There arent any lunatic characters like hextall left in the league these days that give it the personality and intensity it used to have. Today's players are robots and the game just feels so sterile compared to the 80s and 90s hockey I grew up with.
This is why I don't watch any more. Besides that who has $2,000 to bring your wife & 2 kids to a playoff game just to eat an $8 hot dog.
This guy said "goaltending excellence in the 80s" lmao lololol.......
He won the Stanley cup mvp despite losing.
That’s excellence.
Potvin vs Hextall is my favorite goalie fight
ROY vs Osgoode and Vernon are classic fights, too.
GOD I MISS THIS STYLE OF HOCKEY!… BEST YEARS EVER!
80s-early 2000s hockey ❤️
The 80s and early 90s were the greatest. The late 90s and early 2000s were the worst. Slow play, hardly any goals, they call it the dead puck era for a reason. @@brettrossi034
What style? Cheap dirt? Go watch some hobos fight under the bridge.
The two line pass was the only downfall which led to the Neutral zone trap snooze fest.
Growing up watching hextall in net for my hometown team is a amazing memory I have! This guy is right about “hextall was born to be a flyer”
Far from psychopath.you have not not watched enough hockey.passionate is a better word.i could name ten players that might fit that description better.
Miss when goalies had personality
Binnington has a bit of flair to his game. And has actually won the cup.
I've been watching compilations of this guy for years, and I had no idea he played for my local team, the K-Wings. That's bad ass.
Grandpa Hextall groomed the fire in his belly and his Pops and Uncle kept it stoked. The Flyers were a perfect fit for the Flyers and their grind you down style after the Bullies moved on. The Flyers were blessed scooping him up after Pelle Lindbergh’s unfortunate passing. Unfortunately like teams of the time they ran into the Edmonton juggernaut and succumbed valiantly.
He definitely was one of a kind and one of many personalities that made the NHL the game I’ve loved for following 60 years.
I seen Ron play many times in the AHL as a kid when I'd go to my hometown teams games of the Binghamton Whalers. He definitely liked to mix it up and was a fan favorite to yell at and mock.
The flyers wrecked hockey for a decade. Hockey was always a rough sport but they turned it into thuggery. It lost its beauty for awhile. Now, it’s back and even better. Speed, passing, shooting.
That was team owner Ed Snyders doing….he was getting irritable watching his new expansion team get thrown around and bullied. Thus came the Broad Street Bullies with Shultzie, Kelly, Barber, Brown etc etc
I would have loved to have seen some type of altercation between Hextall and Billy Smith.
John Vanbiesbrouck was pretty when it came to slashing players legs. Especially the back of the ankles. I used to be amazed at how many times he'd do it per game when I used to go to Rangers games all the time
Definitely not the biggest psychopath in hockey. Not even the biggest psychopathic Flyer.
Hextall completely choked in the playoffs when he was with the Isles. I've never seen a worse goaltending performance
In 94? He wasn't at his best but if they play that series 10 times the Rangers win 11.
The Islanders Billy Smith was just as crazy and swung his stick even more, not taking anything away from RH. They were hot shit to watch!
Lightning strikes once, but Next all strikes twice! 😉
Man.... You felt it in your ankles and shins...trying to screen Hexy! He would chop ya like a lumberjack. Was built to be a Flyer lol.
Let's go Flyers!!!
He never came close to matching his rookie year
He was a one man show in ‘87, only reason they got within 1 game of the SC. He also was locked in the bathroom in Montreal for the legendary prefight because he would have ki**ed someone .
Billy Smith 2.0 when it came to goalie insanity
I remember Hackstall.
Some huge battles against Edmonton.
Felix Potvin kicked his ass! lmao
No one expected it, but Felix pummeled him big time.
@@Robert-fy2oh He was smart tho too, he let Hex gas himself out skating the entire length of the ice at full-speed lol
He completely underestimated the small, unassuming Potvìn. Felix truly fought like an alley cat!
Is there a bio of his career? Would luv to buy and read it!
Great video essay!
If it weren't for those bad playoff years, he would probably be in the Hall. My goalie idol. I wear 27 now because of him
I loved his crazy style. Being bad tempered a bit myself, it was great to see guys like him succeed ha ha. I still rooted against him, not being a Flyers fan, but I liked his style and intensity. I recall the Chelios incident, but not the hit Chelios did earlier. He wasn't suspended for that???
Hextall made me love hockey. My friends used to make fun of me for liking the sport.
.. Hextall is an iconic goaltender , my friends would share some really crazy stuff about what they did to each other in the juniors , hehehe .. all in fun in the game we all love .. . 😂
With 296 career wins, had he not had those 2 massive suspensions he would have easily surpassed 300 career wins.
Yup, I remember him well, we nicked named him " Hacker Hecstall" I grow up in Cannington Ont Canada & the bith place of Rick Maclesh who played in the NHL a team mate of his.
Maclesh's goaltender was Bernie Parent. He was a fantastic player though. I Will be returning to cannington mens over 40 league this year after sitting last season for torn rotator cuff surgery.
Rough old timers league there as well. Lol.
The Rifle.
Howdy,
I was also goalie, trained under Clint Malarchuk, Mike Vernon, just to name a couple, was scouted by the Calgary Flames, and back in those days, Ron Hextall, was known as Ron " Hacksall " lol
philly always got wild goaltenders🤣🤣 i always think of ray emery
Long Live Razor 💯💯🙏
R.I.P. Razor
Great video was before my time but knew him as a GM
What a character what a goalie
Damn. That hextall household is a hockey factory
my favorite Flyers goalie
Highly entertaining!
Hate the flyers but as a kid I loved Ron Hextall. He was a strange fella and fun to watch.
It can be argued that Hextall COST the Flyers the '87 Cup.
That series was too close for comfort as far as I was concerned.
Had the Flyers not had to kill off the penalties of several teammates, but in particular Hextall...
Well, it's just a thought.
Hextall was my fave goalie, and fave player second only to Bobby Clarke..and I'm not from Philly, I'm in Winnipeg..
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Is it just me, or is that mask very similar to the one Bob Froess wore, whe he was league leader in GAA (but I'm just remembering a hockey card that Froess had in the 85-86 OPC SET. it was the final card of the set, I beleive.
- never won a Cup
- sucked in Quebec vs the Habs in 1993
- got destroyed by Felix Potvin in that fight
- was a crap GM
Still infinitely more accomplished than you will be even if you live to be 1000.
And your comment on the crap GM I can show you how you are very wrong
@brettpatterson404 that depends on how one decides to assess things.
@@Yokes27 maybe...
His name is on the Cup.
My second favorite goalie of all time!! By the way, Chelios should have gotten a lot worse than Hextall going after him. That cheap shot on Brian Propp didn't get any real penalty from the league, but Hextall continued to get penalties where people didn't even get injured.
What a load of nonsense! The only thing Ron Hackstall revolutionized was the douchbag average goalie role.
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NO. Hextall, not winning the calder, was not the biggest upset, in any time.
Just my opinion but dont you think talking about end of season awards, before speaking of playoffs number to be confusing! For people who don't know.
TROPHIES ARE VOTED FOR, BEFORE THE PLAYOFFS.
So people deciding who was rookie of the was.
That's why 'Manson' on skates' did not win it.
The good old days when hockey was played by men and not little kids
One of my all time favorite players.
They don't make hockey like this anymore, sadly.
Gary made sure of that.
When I was 10 my dad showed me clips of him and told me to play like this 😭
It was rlly helpful tho bc I played a style like him and brodeur
billy smith was a bigger psychopath and a better goalie
A *MUCH* better goalie!
@@dicksonfranssen battlin billy a legend not to mention first goalie wear colored goalie pads 🤣
The Stanley Cup series where he won the Conn Smythe he was epic…he kept the Flyers in the series against Oilers, the Gretzky led Oilers
A true legend even in sweden
It explains his failed GM positions too many blows to his empty head
Billy smith was an ok goalie. He had hall of famers all around him. And a hall of fame coach.
Man I miss those real goal pads. Big, heavy when wet and so cool looking. So much better than the sponge cushions goalies use today. Oh yeah, and Hextall was a menace on the ice. His goalie record for penalty minutes will likely never be beat.
Hextall did not play in game 7 at Pittsburgh in round two of the 1989 playoffs - Ken Wregget won that game and game one in the conference final in Montreal.
In the immortal words of the late Bob Cole “Wreeeeeeeeeegggggeeeeeettt”
No, the biggest psychopath in hockey was Goldie Goldthorpe. In most cases, the toughest guys in hockey are usually the nicest guys off the ice and Goldthorpe’s case that was an exception
8:27 What number does this player wear 30 0 33, I don't know?
You could argue that he was the biggest psychopath in the NHL, but I'm not sure I would agree he was the biggest psychopath in hockey. Goldie Goldthorpe is some pretty tough competition to beat there.
Semenko also had a reputation as an insane person lol
My dad played against Ron Hextall when he was 14 in Manitoba and said he was nothing special except that he was bat shit crazy. That all he remembers him for.
And yet no one remembers your dad.
2 BEST goalie, no mess with me, Billy Smith and Hextall!!! My opinion.
If anyone is willing to listen I could tell them Hextalls vision for the Flyers. Also, Mr Snider still promoted and signed off on this plan with the possibility he likely wouldn't be alive to see this thru.
Anyways I could break it down and I think it'll change a whole lot of peoples perception of GM Ron Hextall if anyone is willing to listen
This was a great video.
I didn't watch this past the first few seconds. Felix Potvin kicked Hextall's ass. Like it wasn't even close. Why start your video showing him charging u the ice, just to cut it off? Useless editing. Oh, btw, what did he ever win? A Stanley Cup? NOPE!
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I now have that photo erched into my Brain. How many times did you use it? Feels like 10. lol
Should have asked me. I could have sent you 50 different hocky cards and 22 issues of the hockey news, from some of the best moments in these stories.
I was a Hige fan of the man and cheered him, unless he was playing the Canadians!!
I think we battled 3 times Montreal Vs, Ron Hextall
87 Flyers Won in 6
89 Mnt Won in 6
93 Mnt vs Qc. /Mnt in 6
Tough Goalie, tough man,
Surprised he's done well, in a suit and tie. Good for Him
The *real* first goalie to score
"it took him until his rookie season to find his stride" What the hell kind of sentence is that? Rookie season is his 1st season...
He played for years before his rookie season.
Before he tore his hamstring he was a monster..winning conn smythe on a losing team..unheard of. After the injury he was never the same. Im sorry flyers fan here i couldn't stand him. Couldn't trust him. If those flyers teams from 95,96,97 had a legit number 1 they could have easily won a cup. It was the only weakness they had. Despite Colorado and Detroit being really good the games were all close except 1..he was giving up slap shots from blue line with no screens, off rush, was terrible on breakaways and one timer's, wouldn't put his stick down to cover five hole. So frustrating watching those great teams lose bc of their goaltending. Then he goes to la after botching Pittsburgh too only to win 2 cups in 3 years and going to conference finals 3 straight years 2012-14. Im also shocked he didn't hurt someone while playing but it was a different game and era. You could get away with murder in his playing days almost literally