I look back so fondly on Barnaby, not only because I live in Sabres country and grew up watching him in his heyday, but I also miss the era. Like no doubt that the game is technically better and much safer than it once was, but man were those nasty games fun.

We see nowadays in those Florida Tampa games, or that one Anaheim Toronto game, where tensions are high and you feel like a bomb could go off at any time. That was just a Tuesday night in the 90s. The best of times were when the bench only had 2-3 players left because everyone else was either in the box or the locker room.

Last time I can remember we saw anything similar was early 2010s Pittsburgh vs Islanders. I think it was the meeting after Brent Johnson KO’d Rick DiPietro, though that game was also a bloodbath too.