Before we get to the on ice violence part of this show description one must take a good look at the Ranger player who has the honor of gracing this posts title. Niklas Sundstrom. Perhaps forgotten by some but surely not The Mouth.
Niklas Sundstrom was the kind of player you could compare to a modern day Petr Prucha. Sundstrom was selected in the first round by the Rangers with the eighth pick overall in the 1993 draft.
Niklas showed a lot of promise early on especially offensively but somehow never managed to put it together in the NHL.
After Sundstrom's offense slowly declined after the 1996-1997 season. His game became more focused on defense and he never developed into the good two way player The Mouth and some Ranger fans thought he would.
The Big man even remembers Mark Messier saying that Sundstrom " Could develop into a Forsberg type."
The second part of the clip contains two sucker punches delivered by both a Ranger player and Leaf Player during a game played between the two on October 14th 1995.
The first one is a nice glove sucker by Ranger Wayne Presley on Leafs captain Doug Gilmour. The other one is an all-time Pearl Harbor job by Tie Domi on Ulf Samuellson.
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