Some may bristle at the suggestion that a four-time Stanley Cup winner and an NHL Hall of Fame inductee was a goon, but New York Islanders winger Clark Gillies certainly had the skills to exist solely as a tough guy if he’d had nothing else to go on.
Fortunately for both he and the Islanders, he did, which resulted in 319 goals and 697 points—along with 1,023 penalty minutes—in 14 NHL seasons, 12 of which were spent on Long Island.
