You Can’t Take the Bully Out of Broad Street
Former Flyers player/GM and current senior executive vice president Bobby Clarke still lives by a code. Talk to anybody who played against those broken-knuckled Flyers teams of the ’70s and you’ll find out that, regardless of his seeming Golden Boy persona, the guy was a menace on the ice. So it shouldn’t be a surprise when Clarkie lobs a sound bite sticking up for the freewheeling thuggishness of young Steve Downie, who recently made national hockey news once again thanks to his supposed sucker-punch to Toronto Maple Leaf Jason Blake last Saturday night.
Former Flyers player/GM and current senior executive vice president Bobby Clarke still lives by a code. Talk to anybody who played against those broken-knuckled Flyers teams of the ’70s and you’ll find out that, regardless of his seeming Golden Boy persona, the guy was a menace on the ice. So it shouldn’t be a surprise when Clarkie lobs a sound bite sticking up for the freewheeling thuggishness of young Steve Downie, who recently made national hockey news once again thanks to his supposed sucker-punch to Toronto Maple Leaf Jason Blake last Saturday night.