Comments on: Denis Potvin And The Chant That Won’t Die

By: CB

CB — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 17:20:19 +0000

Hey Islander fans, go get your latte’! POTVIN SUCKS!

By: John M

John M — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 03:42:18 +0000

BEAT YOUR WIFE POTVIN, BEAT YOUR WIFE!

By: David C.

David C. — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 15:36:06 +0000

I still say Potvin is a jerk I say he is still an obnoxious wife beating arrogant conceited Frenchman! So there. Stick that in your pipe and smoke it!

By: todd

todd — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:52:29 +0000

I haven’t followed hockey much at all since 1994 when the Rangers won the cup, but I was a huge Ranger fan prior to that. The chant of ‘beat your wife, Potvin, beat your wife” still brings a smile to my face. There was nothing so vicious as the rivalry between the Rangers and the Islanders, and their fans. Yankees/Red Sox compared but I think tame by comparison.

While the Islanders were dominant in the 70′s and 80′s, they have been doormats forever. It’s poetic justice as far as I’m concerned. They were bastards then, and the franchise has gotten it’s due.

By: pete

pete — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:46:52 +0000

As a Ranger fan I can definitely say that after seeing that hit for the first time, that…HOW GAY! Shut it up Rangers fans. The hit could not have been more routine. Not only that, he may as well have been hit by a fart in the wind. If you have seen the hit, you should never participate in the chant again. Have some dignity. People get hit harder than that playing chess. Bunch of little school girls that won’t let it go.

By: potvins cups

potvins cups — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 16:43:13 +0000

potvin as as many cups by himself as the pathetic rangers org. does in 85 years. who sucks? rangers suck

By: kayla

kayla — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 18:45:55 +0000

SICK! i am a huge Islander fan

By: Karen

Karen — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 01:13:16 +0000

It really pisses me off to see just how immature people really are. Who the @*!! do they all think they are? Denis Potvin was amoung many, many great players who have set a precedence for future players today in their goals, styles and yes, in the maybe what not to does. But hey! There are many athletes of all sports who may be good but are just trying to survive out there when there is a mark out on them just because they’re good.

As for the comment regarding wife battery…bullshit!! His wife was having an affair and took him to the cleaners for your information and he never laid a single hand on her. He has way too many morals for that! Besides, his private life is his private life and nobody has a right to criticize about that. Would you like your life slandered just because of your athletic abilities? I think not! Grow up people….!!!

By: Jt

Jt — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:30:57 +0000

I was at a ranger /panther game recently and potvin was being razzed in the tv booth by a ranger fan.potvin smiled at the guy and said you have a problem with me?at the end of the game let’s talk about it outside the garden.the guy curled up and ran so fast beet red like a dope.potvins cups potvin cups.never umderstood why. Ranger fans chant a whistle and commemorate his cups

By: Mark Marky

Mark Marky — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 17:55:17 +0000

I was a longtime Rangers season ticket holder and I was in attendance that night.

It happened in the along the boards just outside the goal line, not behind the net. And YES, it was most certainly a dirty hit – from behind – as Nilsson was facing the boards in a defenseless position with the puck in his skates. He didn’t see Potvin coming, and Potvin really unloaded on him. Sure, Nilsson’s skate got stuck in a rut in the notoriously bad MSG ice… but Potvin saw his chance to get rid of the Rangers’ top scorer and jumped on it.

If it happened today, Potvin gets 2 minutes for charging, 5 minutes for intent to injure, and a game misconduct, AND gets a suspension from the league. Back then, he didn’t even get a penalty.

The Islanders were always a dirty team, except for Bossy and maybe Goring. If you listen to Chico Resch today, you’d think that they were a team full of angels. Chico is full of it. They won most of those Ranger/Islander games because they were willing to do anything to win, including playing dirty. Sure they were a talented bunch, but they were no more talented than a bunch of other teams at the time, including some Ranger teams.

The Rangers of ’79 were able to beat the Isles in the semifinals. With Nilsson at his best, they would have beaten the Canadiens and won the Cup. No doubt in my mind.

THAT is why to this day we chant, “POTVIN SUCKS!”.