When Todd Bertuzzi and the Vancouver Canucks welcomed Steve Moore and the Colorado Avalanche to General Motors Place on March 8, 2004, they had one thing on their mind: payback.
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40 Comments
I still think Marty McSorley's hatchet swing with the stick to Donald Brashear's neck while he was skating away from him was way worse.
You had every intention of hurting him you POS.
Here we are exactly 20 years later. That game iwll forever be the ugliest and most disturbing ones I've witnessed in the 21 years of watching hockey.
Bertuzzi broke every code there is with that cowardly cheap shot.
This was not the most violent incident in hockey. What about McScorley's two-handed slash to Brashear head??
If done on the street police involved. If done in NHL no police involvement.
Steve moore was challanged to fight several times his final game and even once by bertuzzi before punched him from turning his back to todd. Had steve moore dropped his gloves we would have a different story.
Maybe now we should fix our attention on that home boy who killed Johnson in the UK. Where's the news on that??
all matt cooke fault couldnt win the fight hated that loser.
That’s my hockey coach he now has a son named Hayden he coaches my team the oakville rangers AA
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goodjob Bert
So glad the Isles traded him.
One of the few times you do a video on hockey it has to be one of the worst and most embarrassing. Thanks. 👍
Bertuzzi was never the same after that
Marty McSorley hit someone in the head with his stick (on purpose), and you call the Burtuzzi incident "the most vicious". Gimme a break.
Hardly, his own teammates piling on him is what injured him.
Moore took a cheap shot , which the league should have dealt with. Moore was a marginal player at best and milked his injury. Bertuzzi got railroaded by the team and the league.
Coach said go kill that guy or you won’t play
Boo hoo. You get paid millions of dollars to play a game. Suck it up. No tears at all. Respect??? I have no respect for millionaires who get hurt and then cry.
Go to an emergency room and see how regular people are treated. But everyone is outraged when a millionaire hockey player gets hurt and given the best care money can buy. It’s Fuckin disgusting.
justice
Head line should read most vicious attack from the dirtiest fan base in the NHL… Vancouver fans are chumps FACT… need proof try a riot cause they sucked
It isn't coincidence that Crawford was involved in those two dirty series with Wings-Avs and Canucks -Avs.
The Bertuzzi's are multiple generation criminals. Amazing society lets them get away with it.
As an Av’s fan, it was also pretty boneheaded of Tony Granato not to just take Moore out of the game for the last 10 minutes and I still wonder why he didn’t.
I watched this game on TV and Moore was getting roughed up all game and it kept getting worse and worse. Especially when the Canucks were down by 5. You knew something was going to happen. And obviously it did.
Bertuzzi was relentlessly booed and jeered every single time he played in Denver after that.
Shane pinto had 41 games after this
Most vicious in hockey history? Please. What about mcsorley hitting brashear over the temple and knocking him out…
Fafo you live by the sword you die by the sword. No wait then you sue
FAFO
Seriously change your host. This guy is the most annoying sounding dude i have ever saw in a sport or anything related to eshit. 3 sec was all i needed. Make this guy a pencil pusher again
The league is castrated now. Players get fined for saying mean things
Not even close to the worst in History.
It was a fluke.. Way worse has happned with intent beofre. Baseball bat style head hits and more.. Even Hextall did worse..
Everyone knows Steve Moore is a conman who committed insurance fraud
It wasn’t the most vicious attack lol mcsorley on Brashear ring a bell
At least he didn't kick him in the throat!😳
The end result was horrific. The worst I have seen was McSorely swinging his stick at Brashear.
The fact that Bertuzzi was allowed to play in the NHL again is unbelievable. He ended Moore's career and only got suspended for a season that never happened
Those who understand indider hockey, know Todd got a raw deal.
A fan, which is actually a fanatic, is to emotional, & bias to make a rational decision over this incident
Player's from Colorado didn’t blame Todd.
Can't believe it has been 20 years. I don't condone violence, but I watched hockey for many years and there were definitely worse cases then this. McSorley's stick swing, Domi suckered Niedermayer and Samulsson, etc. I somehow feel Burtuzzi-Moore incident was blown out of proportion. Moore was a marginal player but Burtuzzi was on his way to be a dominant player in the league and sadly his career was derailed by this incident. Criminal charge was a joke. The only person who deserves the criminal charge in hockey is McSorley.