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Micky wrote: ↑Sat Nov 14, 2020 3:13 pm. .........................1978-79 -No.16, Brad Gassoff- Vancouver Canucks. for the record, Micky believes in banners in stadiums but not numbers retired permanently as a show of great respect.
.........................................................................Vladimir Krutov. and Igor Larionov. ..........
I watched Gassoff play his last WCHL (WHL) season in Kamloops where he scored goals and fought the likes of Harold Phillipov and Kim Klackson. He used to show up all the time to Canucks training camp overweight, which hurt his skating. He was never a good skater and coming in overweight slowed him even more. He never showed the scoring or even the toughness with the Canucks he showed in the juniors or the minors.
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Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:34 pm
This never gets old...
No. 11, Ted McAskill was the player the Canucks brought in the season before to fight Portland's Connie Madigan. Faux tough guy Don Cherry was scared shitless of Madigan.
Doyle Hargraves wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 2:10 pm
@ mr perfect Bob Gassoff was the tough brother. Kenny, Brad and Wayne...... not so much. They lived off Bob’s rep. I have a few relatives in Quesnel
I played ball with a young gassoff in quesnel, he played hockey too but was a good ball player
Doyle Hargraves wrote: ↑Sat Nov 28, 2020 2:10 pm
@ mr perfect Bob Gassoff was the tough brother. Kenny, Brad and Wayne...... not so much. They lived off Bob’s rep. I have a few relatives in Quesnel
No, Brad wasn't as tough as Bob, no one was. Tiger Williams rated Bob Gassoff as the toughest player he ever fought, tougher than Clark Gillies. Ken Gassoff was probably the most offensively talented of the bunch but not a high PIM player. I've heard Gary Gassoff was nuts, whether he could fight or not I don't know because I never saw him play. I saw Brad play with the Kamloops Chiefs because that's where I was living at the time. I saw him fight quite a few times and he could more than handle himself. The WCHL had a lot of toughness in the mid '70s. Dave Semenko, Archie Henderson, Bryan Maxwell, Eric Sanderson, Kim Clackson, Harold Phillipov who was Canucks property in 1980 and was left to rot in the minors. The toughest of them all was Barry Beck. I would rate Brad Gassoff in the Ron Delorme tier of enforcers.
Megaterio Llamas wrote: ↑Wed Nov 18, 2020 6:34 pm
This never gets old...
No. 11, Ted McAskill was the player the Canucks brought in the season before to fight Portland's Connie Madigan. Faux tough guy Don Cherry was scared shitless of Madigan.
Yeah Cherry idolized McCaskill. Don wasn't that tough himself but he really looked up to the genuine tough guys and McCaskill was definitely tough. Ted Taylor would have had no problem with fighting Madigan either.
.....Canucks winger Ron Sedlbauer celebrates after scoring against Boston Bruins goalie Dave Reece while defenceman Brad Park — in his first game as a .................Bruin after a blockbuster trade from the New York Rangers — looks on during a Nov. 10, 1975 NHL game at the Pacific Coliseum.