2009-10 NHL Thread

That might be a little much.

 

Look at the size difference in this fight, Rypien weighs about 175 pounds.

 

Wow. He gets inside and starts throwing some body blows. That's impressive.

 

Pound for pound he's one of the toughest in the league. He's beaten some pretty tough guys including demolishing Stortini in Edmonton and Prust in Calgary.

 

Woof! He worked Prust. Wow.

He's an angry little fella.

 

If you needed further proof that Jon Hamm aka Don Draper is one cool dude, here you go

 

Thanks for those clips. Rypien is a great fighter.

EDIT: And I've figured out why. His father is an oil-patch worker and a former Golden Gloves champion.....sounds like a pretty tough family.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/sports/story.html?id=8792ce08-030a-46f6-bb00-37404e1112db

I love this passage:

Rypien is the most ferocious Canuck lightweight since Scott Walker was speed-bagging Michel Petit a decade ago.

 

I think he catches people by surprise because of his size. I don't think people will be surprised much longer. He comes from a boxing family and if you watch the fight against Gill you can see how at one point, in tight he has his left up protecting himself like a boxer would.

The Stortini one is my favourite since Stortini is a useless douche. (Beef baiting)

 

It also helped that, for all Gill's size, he really can't fight worth shit.

 

That never hurts.
Tough position for a guy that size to be in, if he works Rypien, well he's supposed to and if he loses the ridicule ensues.

 

Those lefts reminded me of one of the greatest goalie fights of all time: Felix Potvin annihilating that fuckhead Ron Hextall with a series of quick lefts.

 

Gill is an awful fighter,....just like the rest of his game. Except when playing against Jagr....

And, if anyone is wondering what Shawn Bates is up to (I wasn't.....so I'm sure you're not either) I played with him in a pickup game yesterday afternoon, our team got killed.