I know you all have one.. Let's hear it.....

[Nicky Santoro]

Boys, i am sure we all grew up as kids idolizing an athlete. someone we admired..someone we wanted to be. someone we imitated. someone we dreamed of meeting. Mine was this guy here... Guy Lafleur.. I used to play hockey pretending to be him..I always wore his #10 jersey. i'd shoot like him, act like him.. i just wanted to be him.. I remember meeting him for 1st time and i started shaking.. what a day.. A day i'll never forget as a kid.

Who was your Idol as a kid? You all must have one.. Lets hear it.


Here was mine.. ... A GOD in montreal... my hero.....my idol....Guy Lafleur




Who was your idol as a kid growing up?

[betplom]

Nicky, Guy had a bit of talent, but he's as smart as a bag of hammers.

I liked this dude a whole lot more.

[Willie Bee]

Carl Yastrzemski and Yogi Berra were the main reasons I always wanted to wear No. 8. Bob Gibson was why I wanted to be a pitcher, which I sucked at.

[SlickFazzer]

Chris Mullin at St. Johns and Johnny Dawkins at Duke.

[Nicky Santoro]

plommer, guy lafleur is the 4th best hockey player to ever play the game. 1- mario, 2- wayne gretzky, 3- bobby orr, 4- guy lafleur..

btw, growing up in toronto, who was your idol? let me guess, Darryl Sittler?? not many stars there in toronto, huh?


willie, you must have really loved carl yastrzemski, because you are 1st person i ever saw that spelled his name right..

[Brock Landers]

George Brett, loved his hitting ability, and i played 3rd base.

[jjgold]

I liked a lot of guys, my favorites are

ray williams -ny knicks
Lendl- Tennis
Graf- Tennis
Craig heward-football
Quintin Daily- Hoops
Ricky Henderson- Bases
Marcus Dupree-foots

[Nicky Santoro]

plommer, how good am i? i swear i didnt' even see your sittler pic and i guessed it.. that was easy, who else is there to idolize in toronto? no one.

brocker, great idol to pick..

slicker, come on man, is that the best you can idolize? never heard of these guys..being from minny, you could have idolized Puckett, Blyleven, and many more..

[sickler]

Mine:

[PuckOff]

plommer, guy lafleur is the 4th best hockey player to ever play the game. 1- mario, 2- wayne gretzky, 3- bobby orr, 4- guy lafleur..

You have to be kidding me Nicky. You put Guy ahead of Mike Bossy? I think you're on drugs.

[PuckOff]

I'll go with Gretzky and then Wendel Clark.

[betplom]

who else is there to idolize in toronto? no one.

Nicky, your ignorance cracks me up, pal.
The obviously teach ignorance in the quebec schools system.

Yesterday you compared your habs to last years Detroit Red Wings, then you say we have no heroes, you forgot this guy:

[SlickFazzer]

Nicky i lived, slept, and drank College Basketball from 84 to the early 90's....the 86 Duke team that
made it the the final four, only to be upset in the final game by Never Nervous Pervis Ellison, and Louisville....

85 St Johns Redmen. Chris Mullin.....one of the best shooters the college game has ever seen.

Man i followed that shit close in those days...

[Nicky Santoro]

slicker, being from minny, you could have also idolized Bobby Smith from the North Stars..

sickler and jj, great idols.. maybe not jj's cause not many famous guys he just named, but sickler with a great one with trottier.

pucker, the boss man could only score goals.. guy was a complete player. great skater, great shot and a smart player and most exciting player to watch ever... even more exciting than Ovechkin.. when he skated down that wing with the hair flying back.. wow..

[Matt Rain]

Le Petit Viking, Mats Naslund. Always used #26 when I played minor league sports. My "Matt Rain" player in NHL 09 also wears #26.

[Matt Rain]

when he skated down that wing with the hair flying back.. wow..

True, there was nothing quite like a Guy Lafleur breakaway with the hair flying back. Only caught the later years of his career, but he was still quite spectacular.

[onthewhat]

I grew up in the driveway doing fadeaway jumpers like MJ....

Greatest athlete of all time...MICHAEL JORDAN

[InTheHole]

Rick Monday of the Yankees!

[PuckOff]

pucker, the boss man could only score goals.

OMG Nicky. Get real my man.

Bossy - 752 games - 573 goals and 553 assists
Lafleur - 1127 games - 560 goals and 793 assists

Do the math Nicky. Bossy has him beat.

[mmike032]

Isiah Thomas
Spud Webb
Kenny Anderson ( I'm right handed but learned to shoot with my left hand so I could be like him)
Muggsy Boggs
Pistol Pete
I was always the smallest guy on the court so immulated the small guards

[AgainstAllOdds]

Steve Young
Jerry Rice
Patrick Ewing
Paul Oneil
Lawrence Taylor
Marino Rivera
Bruce Smitch
Jim Kelly

[CashMoney]

Don Mattingly for me. He was the most dominant player in the game for a stretch until he hurt his back. He was never the same player but he played hard every game.

Wished he would have won a ring but it makes me feel good to know that in his only post season performance he hit over 400. To this day, whenver I go to the stadium I wear a Donnie Baseball Jersey. #23 for life.

[VegasDave]

I guess mine would have to be Martin Brodeur. Always played goalie and loved goalie from a young age, and he was the best; other than Patrick Roy of course. But I just preferred Brodeur and have followed his career closely.

Other favorite player as a kid was Tim Brown, great Raider and a consummate professional.

[Nicky Santoro]

inner, you are a NYY fan and the best you can come up with is ricky monday? omg.. you could have chosen out of 239 NY superstars and you choose monday? wow..

onner,i am shocked that you are only guy to pick Jordan. i thought he'd be dominating here..

aao and mikey, i said 1 player, not 7.

pucker, 2 different era's.. lafleur played when goals were down.. bossy came in when scoring was very high. If Guy lafleur played in 80's and early 90's, he'd have 173 pt seasons.

your example is bad. that's like saying Rocket Richard is shit because he never had 130 pts seasons, when games were 2-1 back in the 50's..

Pucker, Lafleur is the 4th best hockey player to ever play the game.. and most exciting player ever, even more than Wayne and Bobby Orr and rocket richard.

[Richkas]

MLB Reggie Smith
NHL Gary Unger
NBA Lou Alcindor
NFL Jim Hart

[betplom]

OMG Nicky. Get real my man.

Bossy - 752 games - 573 goals and 553 assists
Lafleur - 1127 games - 560 goals and 793 assists

Do the math Nicky. Bossy has him beat.

Pucker, Nicky has no time for facts (or reality) - if Nicky says lefleur was better than Bossy it must be true, remember habs fans are fragile creatures, they suffer great mental anguish when facts prove the hab players they adore were not as good as other players.

Nicky continues the quebec tradition of making excuses when proven wrong.

[AMBlai01]

Mine would have to be Donny Baseball....I am one of the biggest Don Mattingly fans ever. He was unreal and it was awful that his career got cut short due to back issues. Would have been a hall of famer.

[Regul8er]

Easy one for me....Ozzie Smith.

No one could flash leather quite like the Wizard. Although, I swear to this day I could swing the stick better then him.

[Bread]

Danny Ainge.

[konck]

Najah Davenport for taking a duke in that whores closet

[betplom]

Danny Ainge.

While not my favourite of all time, I enjoyed watching him play baseball while in Toronto.

[sallysnax8]

you could imagine my dissappointment

[fiveteamer]

[flyingillini]

Ozzie Smith and had the chance to meet him on numerous occasions as well. Great guy.

[PuckOff]

pucker, 2 different era's.. lafleur played when goals were down.. bossy came in when scoring was very high. If Guy lafleur played in 80's and early 90's, he'd have 173 pt seasons.


Pucker, Lafleur is the 4th best hockey player to ever play the game.. and most exciting player ever, even more than Wayne and Bobby Orr and rocket richard.

OK Now I really think you are on drugs. What does the city of Montreal put in the water Nicky?

Mike Bossy played in the 70's and 80's. 80's hockey was the toughest to play with all the goons running around trying to kill everybody.

Nicky I am starting to lose respect for you. And I do respect you Nicky.