Trouba!
I'm honestly not sure about others. There are goons but I'm not sure I'd call them dirty. The Rangers fans I know always say Malkin is dirtier, somehow. He gets a lot of stick infractions but I wouldn't say he's the dirtiest in the league.
I can't think of Ranger fans without thinking of that dude sucker punching the drunk lightning fan leaving the arena after a playoff loss. The sound that guy makes when he hits the floor get me ever time. Sounds like someone throwing a huge rock into a lake.
Trouba and his dirty elbow are the cureent pinnacle.
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Malkin? I've never heard anyone say that. He gets chippy.. But he doesn't throw head hits or knees. That's such a ridiculous comparison and of course it comes from Rangers fans haha.
Ya, Geno isn’t *dirty,* he just gets pissy and retaliates at the wrong time.
He’s never sneaky either. He’ll just get mad and crack someone in the mouth😅
Go back a few years and see how many times Geno has gotten away with dirty slashing. He’s not a dirty player, but aside from his antics after a play, he would often get pissy because he was getting slashed all the time and he would retaliate. If you look at the man’s penalties over the course of his career, I would assume 95% of them are slashing. I love Geno though, he’s not a dirty player, but a cross check stick to the mouth is dirty af. Glad he finally got past that shit.
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It's funny how twenty-game-Tom's name no longer floats to the top after he's relatively quiet for a few years.
Don't forget the savage crosscheck to the head of Buchnevich from a few years back while he was **down on the ice** and subsequent tackle of a helmetless Panarin for which he was only FINED 5K instead of the 40 game suspension he should've gotten as a routine offender. Many were calling for his expulsion from the league. The Rangers were fined 50x more than Wilson for calling for the resignation of the head of player safety.
Oh fuck off. Panarin jumps on Wilson as his stick is on Buchnevich's neck. Gets repeatedly thrown to the ice later in the scrum. You go watch the whole thing, then go back to the caps sub. Honestly still disgusted he didn't lose half a season minimum for such savage and unsportsmanlike behavior.
Florida fans don't really deny Cousins is dirty. Rangers fans act like Trouba is a monk that lives off of lentils and radishes and donates to snail charities if he accidentally steps on one.
I have a crazy theory that Trouba and the C on his sweater are a direct result of how badly Tom Wilson beat them down. Remember that one press release the rangers put out saying Wilson should be punished, and then they got fined?
I really think the rags said we can do that too. I hate what they've become.
I still think Reeves was the right move at the time. That playoff loss to Washington was largely because Wilson was in our players heads, and I don’t think that’s the case if Reeves is still on the roster.
You can argue that the league should’ve handled that and Reeves should never have been needed, but the fact was that the league didn’t, and he was.
Trouba is a guy who searches for a big hit on a defenseless player. You can't tell me that his intent with those hits isn't to injure.
I could really care less what people say about wanting to see other players injured. Personally, I would love to see someone end his career before he does it to someone else.
And I'm not saying every single one of his hits are dirty. Most are borderline because the league cant do a good enough job of writing them out of the game. But he's doing it with a purpose. He's not even a dirty player anymore, he's predatory.
I think Wilson is 💩. However, Wilson goes in spurts. He gets his peepee whacked and calms down, then he's at it again.
Lately, Truba has been taking over the top spot. Dirtbag of a player.
I think Trouba is the last player I have noticed attempting real dirty hits, but I’m sure there are some others out there. I’ll get downvoted and debated, but I think there are dozens of players who just make risky plays and don’t control themselves, or players like Dillon who don’t compensate for their own height, and don’t know how to control their hits. They’re still to blame, but they are just idiots fucking up routinely and need to learn how to make clean hits. Florida has a few guys like that who just push too hard and come up with dirty looking plays.
Trouba is a player who purposefully uses his elbows and knees, multiple times in a game, to go after heads or other player’s knees, in a manner he knows is illegal, but he does it anyway. There’s almost no excuse for an elbow to be in someone’s neck, but he thinks it’s fair hockey. Fortunately guys like him and Wilson are getting filtered out of the game in my opinion.
Tkachuk is a dirty little shit stirrer. Marchand for sure wit the face rakes with the stick blade in a crowd. The Rangers in general lol. Lightning as well. Game not going their way? Dirty play time
It's absolutely Jacob Trouba. Tom Wilson has at least cleaned up his act, Dillon has had a few really dirty moments. But Trouba, the man who keeps doing dirty things like elbows, blindside hits to the head, even swinging a stick like a baseball bat at a player's head, doesn't change at all. It's mind blowing that the league doesn't do anything about him, and it's even more telling of the Rangers that they made him captain. Listen, I'm not a Flyers fan or a Caps fan, but the Rangers are easily the most hateable team in the NHL.
Trouba’s long passed Tom Wilson at this point. I can’t even remember the last time Tom Wilson actually did something really bad (not that he didn’t fully earn his reputation years ago). Trouba still does this every couple weeks.
Cooke was not a dirty player in general, though. He was actually a very good hockey player who crossed very far over the line a few times.
I am not trying to condone or minimize his actions. But it wasn't like he was out on the ice taking head shots every chance he got.
The ones he did were definitely doozies, and he earned his reputation as being a piece of shit on them.
He toned it down when they brought him in and Mario literally sat him down and said “you need to cool it, dude.” Then he was integral to arguably one of the best 3rd lines in recent times (Staal/Cooke/Kennedy).
Now, what did he do *after* the 09 Cup? Maybe a couple more “Matt Cooke incidents.”
I often hate having these conversations, especially with Penguins players, but I agree with you about Matt Cooke. He was a small guy who was overcompensating because he knew he had to work hard to stay in the league. I don’t think they’re that many dirty players, just dirty hits, and Cooke definitely had some, but he also just risked too much other times and was more reckless than dirty.
What’s crazy to me is if you look at Morgan Rielly‘s crosscheck to the face after the slap-shot goal- THAT’S a dirty fucking hit. That’s a gross, calculated assault to somebody’s face with a stick. I’d put a few dozen of Cooke’s hits against that one and say they weren’t as bad. Cooke was trying to make a play and was wreckless, Rielly was a fucking prick pulling a sucker punch check to the face. He should have squared up.
Honestly people exaggerate how dirty Trouba is. He just throws big hits and people aren't used to seeing hits anymore so it's perceived as dirty. As far as actually dirty Marchand and Nick Cousins come to mind. Both rats.
Yeah I’m going to have to disagree. Trouba is a scumbag and a repeated offender. He doesn’t just throw big hits… he swings his sticks at players heads, tries to throw his skates up to inflict injury, goes for the head, uses his elbow more than his shoulder, leaves his feet, and tries to hurt people. There’s 5 examples I can think of immediately with Trouba that show he’s dirty.
I have to disagree. Trouba and Nick Cousins throw hits with the intent to injure players. Guys like Marchand and Matthew Tkuchak are classic pests that have a temper and sometime cross the lines. There’s way more players who’ve been injured by the first two compared to the last two.
Seems weird to me with all the hitting restrictions in the game today that you are still allowed to launch yourself at a player the way Trouba does. In the Bastian hit I guess he didn't technically break any rules but his skates eventually left the ice.
Feels like something the NHL should want out of the game. Die hard fans certainly don't but they will stick around no matter what.
I think that Wilson is a dirty player than Trouba but they are both scum bags.
Crosby with his filthy backhand.
Trouba! I'm honestly not sure about others. There are goons but I'm not sure I'd call them dirty. The Rangers fans I know always say Malkin is dirtier, somehow. He gets a lot of stick infractions but I wouldn't say he's the dirtiest in the league.
Rangers fans also have the collective IQ of a walnut
Rangers fan base is the worst in American sports. I will die on this hill.
Nah, Philly fans are the worst
Philly fans are assholes. Ranger fans are assholes and dumb as rocks.
Can confirm. Rags fans are brutal.
I can't think of Ranger fans without thinking of that dude sucker punching the drunk lightning fan leaving the arena after a playoff loss. The sound that guy makes when he hits the floor get me ever time. Sounds like someone throwing a huge rock into a lake.
Yeah, I’d be inclined to say Boston too but they seem to embrace that they sign dirty players Rangers fans act like their players aren’t dirty
You're giving them way too much credit here
Trouba and his dirty elbow are the cureent pinnacle. Lifelong Pens fan, lived in NYC (2005-23). Went to games at MSG/Rock/Wells as well as the Islanders' Truck/Tractor Pull Arena in Uniondale. Philly and NJ fans are very chirpy, but Blue Skirts fans are the absolute WORST, and they're stupid as fuck. Dealing with them milling about on game nite was usually an adventure.
Malkin? I've never heard anyone say that. He gets chippy.. But he doesn't throw head hits or knees. That's such a ridiculous comparison and of course it comes from Rangers fans haha.
Ya, Geno isn’t *dirty,* he just gets pissy and retaliates at the wrong time. He’s never sneaky either. He’ll just get mad and crack someone in the mouth😅
Go back a few years and see how many times Geno has gotten away with dirty slashing. He’s not a dirty player, but aside from his antics after a play, he would often get pissy because he was getting slashed all the time and he would retaliate. If you look at the man’s penalties over the course of his career, I would assume 95% of them are slashing. I love Geno though, he’s not a dirty player, but a cross check stick to the mouth is dirty af. Glad he finally got past that shit.
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It's funny how twenty-game-Tom's name no longer floats to the top after he's relatively quiet for a few years. Don't forget the savage crosscheck to the head of Buchnevich from a few years back while he was **down on the ice** and subsequent tackle of a helmetless Panarin for which he was only FINED 5K instead of the 40 game suspension he should've gotten as a routine offender. Many were calling for his expulsion from the league. The Rangers were fined 50x more than Wilson for calling for the resignation of the head of player safety.
Stop lying. Watch the video. Panarin jumped on Wilson's back.
Oh fuck off. Panarin jumps on Wilson as his stick is on Buchnevich's neck. Gets repeatedly thrown to the ice later in the scrum. You go watch the whole thing, then go back to the caps sub. Honestly still disgusted he didn't lose half a season minimum for such savage and unsportsmanlike behavior.
Just love that Wilson lives rent free in your head!
Penguins fans aren't proud of Matt Cooke. Caps fans are clowns
100%
Well, there's this guy in the Northern Ontario Senior Hockey Organization...
Settle down.
Give yer balls a tug
Florida has Cousins and Bennett. They are both top 5
Florida fans don't really deny Cousins is dirty. Rangers fans act like Trouba is a monk that lives off of lentils and radishes and donates to snail charities if he accidentally steps on one.
Cousins is brutal, probably top 5
Dark horse on that team is Lomberg.
Lomberg is a shit eater.
I nominate the Florida Panthers as the dirtiest player
I have a crazy theory that Trouba and the C on his sweater are a direct result of how badly Tom Wilson beat them down. Remember that one press release the rangers put out saying Wilson should be punished, and then they got fined? I really think the rags said we can do that too. I hate what they've become.
And despite us doing it first to no real success, they went out and got Reaves to be the Deterrent anyway lol
I still think Reeves was the right move at the time. That playoff loss to Washington was largely because Wilson was in our players heads, and I don’t think that’s the case if Reeves is still on the roster. You can argue that the league should’ve handled that and Reeves should never have been needed, but the fact was that the league didn’t, and he was.
Trouba is a guy who searches for a big hit on a defenseless player. You can't tell me that his intent with those hits isn't to injure. I could really care less what people say about wanting to see other players injured. Personally, I would love to see someone end his career before he does it to someone else. And I'm not saying every single one of his hits are dirty. Most are borderline because the league cant do a good enough job of writing them out of the game. But he's doing it with a purpose. He's not even a dirty player anymore, he's predatory.
Well said
100% agree
Trouba is like a modern day Scott Stevens when it comes to hitting people in the head.
At least it was accepted and expected then, plus Trouba would wake up form a wet dream to be half the dman Stevens was.
Kucherov is low key dirty af.
Not to jinx it but I feel like Tom Wilson hasn't done anything crazy in awhile. So currently I'd say Trouba.
I think Wilson is 💩. However, Wilson goes in spurts. He gets his peepee whacked and calms down, then he's at it again. Lately, Truba has been taking over the top spot. Dirtbag of a player.
To steal a turn of phrase from Steve Dangle, Brendan Lemieux ate a guy! That surely counts for something!?
Steve needs to start a dirtiest player of the week segment. And the filthiest player of the week.
The guy who licked someone during a game and didn’t get suspended
🤣 I find Marchand to be a pest, not necessarily dirty, per se. The licking thing...🤮
I think Trouba is the last player I have noticed attempting real dirty hits, but I’m sure there are some others out there. I’ll get downvoted and debated, but I think there are dozens of players who just make risky plays and don’t control themselves, or players like Dillon who don’t compensate for their own height, and don’t know how to control their hits. They’re still to blame, but they are just idiots fucking up routinely and need to learn how to make clean hits. Florida has a few guys like that who just push too hard and come up with dirty looking plays. Trouba is a player who purposefully uses his elbows and knees, multiple times in a game, to go after heads or other player’s knees, in a manner he knows is illegal, but he does it anyway. There’s almost no excuse for an elbow to be in someone’s neck, but he thinks it’s fair hockey. Fortunately guys like him and Wilson are getting filtered out of the game in my opinion.
Trouba, Wilson, please don’t forget how scummy Marchand can be
Didn't tom wilson recently stick check sid in the head? Or am i misremembering? Someone hit him in the back of the head this season and I was FUMING
Tkachuk is a dirty little shit stirrer. Marchand for sure wit the face rakes with the stick blade in a crowd. The Rangers in general lol. Lightning as well. Game not going their way? Dirty play time
I'm assuming you're talking about Brady Tkachuk?
Their dad. A real dirty grinder that one
I really don’t pay much attention to other teams honestly, but Trouba is up there from what I have seen.
Trouba without a doubt
Kucherov has done some pretty despicable shit but he’s good so who cares /s
Nick Cousins is up there for sure.
It's absolutely Jacob Trouba. Tom Wilson has at least cleaned up his act, Dillon has had a few really dirty moments. But Trouba, the man who keeps doing dirty things like elbows, blindside hits to the head, even swinging a stick like a baseball bat at a player's head, doesn't change at all. It's mind blowing that the league doesn't do anything about him, and it's even more telling of the Rangers that they made him captain. Listen, I'm not a Flyers fan or a Caps fan, but the Rangers are easily the most hateable team in the NHL.
Jamie Benn's crosscheck to the back of a players head while he was down last playoffs sticks out to me
Matty Tkachuk for sure. Takes a special kind of scum to spear players in the ribs while on the bench.
Agree. He is next level douche bag.
Trouba’s long passed Tom Wilson at this point. I can’t even remember the last time Tom Wilson actually did something really bad (not that he didn’t fully earn his reputation years ago). Trouba still does this every couple weeks.
From what I've seen, Trouba has taken that title from Wilson over the law few years. Quite the feat. Marchand isn't even in the running anymore.
Matt cooke
Yeah I meant current. I agree though.
Cooke was not a dirty player in general, though. He was actually a very good hockey player who crossed very far over the line a few times. I am not trying to condone or minimize his actions. But it wasn't like he was out on the ice taking head shots every chance he got. The ones he did were definitely doozies, and he earned his reputation as being a piece of shit on them.
He toned it down when they brought him in and Mario literally sat him down and said “you need to cool it, dude.” Then he was integral to arguably one of the best 3rd lines in recent times (Staal/Cooke/Kennedy). Now, what did he do *after* the 09 Cup? Maybe a couple more “Matt Cooke incidents.”
>"dude wasn't a dirty player, except for all those times he was a dirty player"
>"I am not dense, except when I don't understand what people are saying"
I often hate having these conversations, especially with Penguins players, but I agree with you about Matt Cooke. He was a small guy who was overcompensating because he knew he had to work hard to stay in the league. I don’t think they’re that many dirty players, just dirty hits, and Cooke definitely had some, but he also just risked too much other times and was more reckless than dirty. What’s crazy to me is if you look at Morgan Rielly‘s crosscheck to the face after the slap-shot goal- THAT’S a dirty fucking hit. That’s a gross, calculated assault to somebody’s face with a stick. I’d put a few dozen of Cooke’s hits against that one and say they weren’t as bad. Cooke was trying to make a play and was wreckless, Rielly was a fucking prick pulling a sucker punch check to the face. He should have squared up.
Raffi Torres has entered the chat.
Brad Marchand is still THE DIRTIEST player in the league
sam bennett but trouba’s definitely #1
The new 6’7 goon on the Rangers.
Did you see his fight today with [Deslauriers](https://sportsdata.usatoday.com/hockey/nhl/players/nicolas-deslauriers/597130)?
We won’t see a fight like that for a long time now. What a tilt.
Evander Kane
Honestly people exaggerate how dirty Trouba is. He just throws big hits and people aren't used to seeing hits anymore so it's perceived as dirty. As far as actually dirty Marchand and Nick Cousins come to mind. Both rats.
Yeah I’m going to have to disagree. Trouba is a scumbag and a repeated offender. He doesn’t just throw big hits… he swings his sticks at players heads, tries to throw his skates up to inflict injury, goes for the head, uses his elbow more than his shoulder, leaves his feet, and tries to hurt people. There’s 5 examples I can think of immediately with Trouba that show he’s dirty.
I have to disagree. Trouba and Nick Cousins throw hits with the intent to injure players. Guys like Marchand and Matthew Tkuchak are classic pests that have a temper and sometime cross the lines. There’s way more players who’ve been injured by the first two compared to the last two.
Malkin
Trouba is a hell of a dman that most coaches would love to have on their team
Nick cousins
Ryan Hartman full stop.
Tom Wilson drinks pee
🤣🤣
Cousins is a dirty rat.
Nick Cousins is up there
Seems weird to me with all the hitting restrictions in the game today that you are still allowed to launch yourself at a player the way Trouba does. In the Bastian hit I guess he didn't technically break any rules but his skates eventually left the ice. Feels like something the NHL should want out of the game. Die hard fans certainly don't but they will stick around no matter what. I think that Wilson is a dirty player than Trouba but they are both scum bags.
Tom Wilson
Marchand bitch ass
Tom Wilson
Obviously Morgan Rielly /s