Friday, June 19, 2009

Mark Messier's Ice Violence leads to absolute absurdity.

The Crisis time machine is once again cranked into high gear back to simpler times, when the Rangers dispatched opponents nightly, something similar to how the Mouth dispatches of Mallomars.

This is one of the big mans all time favorite clips, mainly because it contains in his biased opinion, legal Ranger instigated on ice violence as well as a surreal journey into Hockey absurdity. The two essential qualities that make up a classic clip in the The Mouths warped mind.

This “incident” took place on February 26t, 1994 when the Rangers took on the Dallas Stars at Reunion Arena. The first part of this classic clip deals with a violent yet legal shoulder check that Mark Messier unleashes on Stars captain Mike Modano. The impact of this shoulder check sent Modano flying and spinning onto the ice unconscious and into a temporary sleepy-bye state. We are treated to several different camera angles that put into question whether the Messier hit was dirty.

Things get a bit scary when the Reunion arena Paramedic staff is put into action and has to put Modano on a stretcher in order to get him of the ice. It is at the time the journey into the surreal occurs and the twisted mind of The Mouth can’t help but laugh each time he takes the trip, once again validating that the big man is a very disturbed Ranger fan.

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