OK, whom do you think was the Komets' all-time greatest rival and why?
Then, who is their best rivalry with now and why?
What make
OK, whom do you think was the Komets' all-time greatest rival and why?
Then, who is their best rivalry with now and why?
What make
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Cescon was fighting and beating the crap out of guys.....now......he has stopped fighting.
Not sure why?
Molle has stones to volunteer to fight....but he can't handle these guys.
Schrock is awesome, don't get me wrong, but we don't need him fighting some of these horses the other teams seem to have, that we don't.
Thank you Mr. Franke.
Cescon hasn't fought much since he had the concussion.
Keep the big galoots who can't skate on the ice and go around them and score. Why play to their strengths?
#25 Sgroi
come on ks!!!
Yeah--1 to1 go Komets!!
Lardner scores for the K's
Geeze--wish Savage would blink or sneeze!
Yeah Frankie!
How long does the new kid stay with the K's? What a talent
Nobody knows Shane, though he has told his agent he'd like to stay.
Dennis: Good to see you back in print. Reading your post I got a big kick. Don Westbrooke, does that name ring a bell? Westy is a good friend of mine from home. If you do remember, a little trivia for the group. Don was the first North American to score 3 on Tretiak. He was playing with the Seatle Totems at the time.
Komets Win-Komets Win- Komets Win---6pts this weekend!
KOPMETS WIN KOMETS WIN 3-0 this weekend WTG GUYS
whooooooooooaaaaaaaa ks win! ks win! ks win!
ks aren't in last place anymore!! :)
Big weekend for the K's!
Nice to see Curadeau get the game winner and it sounds like Boucher stood on his head the last couple minutes of regulation and early in OT...
Bring these winning ways back home!
Wait a second.....we can win in OT!!!!!!!!!!
6 point weekend, sorry guys, I didn't think it would happen. Congratulations and thanks......
1. Toledo If you were around back then this is a no-brainer.
2.Indy
3. Kzoo although it was more of a friendly rivalry.
4. Musky
Louisville has to fit in here also, games against them were brutal. I remember my Mom going off on them, saying they were a bunch of dirty players. That might have been the game she got speared through the chain link fence.
Steve did you read my post? Bet she used to talk to Lou! Lol
WTG K's! Great weekend! Now bring it home! On the rivalry question, my vote goes to Toledo. We used to borrow Ohio license plates from a friend when we drove over to a Toledo game. We changed the plates on our van a couple blocks from the arena; otherwise, you never knew what you would find when you came back to the parking lot after the game. One time we saw a kid about 8-10 yrs old attack Bob Chase in the hallway of the Toledo rink before a game. We always went early enough to eat at a resturant in Toledo called Mancy's. They had fabuous onion soup. Wonder if Mancy's is still there...
I'm not (quite) old enough to remember the games against Toledo, but my dad liked to tell a story that backs up what JB said. He told me that when they would go to Toledo he would have to park the car so that no one could see the Indiana plates or else the car might end up in the river!
WTG KOMETS ROCK here we go hang on folks going to make a run for it. Goaltendings been here all season,Capt Colin made a difference, and Danny LaPointe what a find, less we foget Mollie and APOD Lets go Komets
Tim, I saw your post. For years and years (starting with year one) my parents set on the ice behind the visitor's end. Yes, they would say things too players, sometimes even brief conversations with some of the Komets who they knew well enough that some of them would show up at the house from time to time. My dad would really get on the refs. He was known for climbing up on the fence and shaking it. When I went to games sometimes I would sit next to them, sometimes the row behind them, and sometimes with my grandparents who sat at the other end of the ice.
My mom caught the butt end of a stick through the fence one game, square in the chest. Her version, it was an accident. My dad's version, she mouthed off to the wrong player, but he would smile when saying it, a sure sign he was kidding.
Something I've never forgotten for some reason. Komets v Toledo, Mike Penasse and Paul Tantardini are skating down the ice, eye-balling each other and skating in perfect sync. Very smooth, actually beautiful skating. Then they lit into each other. Checking when they both played it must have been the 77-78 season. I'll never forget the skating and looking at each other.
I'm not really old enough to remember Toledo either. It's just the vague recollection of wanting to throw my Cracker Jacks at them.
I'm going to have to go with Toledo as my undisputed No. 1 rival with Indy being a close second. Sure, you cold say Kzoo because they played them for so long, but I don't think there was ever the pure hatred between them that seemed to be present with Toledo and Indy.
One funny thing I remember is how much my buddies and I hated Indy player Mike Peluso. Then he ended up winning a cup with my team, the Devils in '95. I actually just watched a video on YouTube of Peluso pounding none other than Kevin Kaminski, who played for the Capitals, during that '95 season.
TOLEDO hands down! Everything you've ever heard about it is definitely true, especially when Teddy Garvin was their coach and manager.
I don't think there is any true rivalry anymore. Rockford and Quad City in the old UHL, but since then, no one really.
Having those old rivalries really did make "hockey fun" back then. Can't really say that today.
I remember going to Toledo Sports Arena as a young teen to watch the K's play the Goaldiggers on St. Patrick's Day. What a night: green ice, Toldeo in their green sweaters, their coach, Ted Garvin enters that dump of an arena and jumps on top of the side boards wearing a derby hat and waving a cane. The place exploded and never stopped.
Toledo gets my vote.
Toledo Goaldiggers were the No. 1 rivals.
Everyone else is FAR below this one. If you never saw the Komets/Toledo in the 1970s, words cannot adequately describe it. Teddy Garvin was a one of a kind coach and a perfect fit for Toledo.
As good as the Komets/Indy rivalry was in the 1990s, the Komets/Toledo absolutely dwarfs it. When a team has a line nicknamed "Murder, Inc." (Toledo) that tells you all you need to know. There was the "Philly flu" when NHL teams had to visit the Broad Street Bullies in the 1970s. Toledo was similar in the classic IHL days.
My dad and I went to most of the old IHL rinks, but we never went to Toledo after all the stories of fans trying to push the Komets' bus into the river, vandalizing cars with Indiana plates, throwing chairs onto the ice, etc.