Coming in at number three on our list: Reed Lowe. Lowe was listed at 6’4” and 220 lbs. He was considered a heavyweight and was by far the biggest Blues player on this list.
Lowe played 256 career games in NHL, 250 of those were while wearing the Bluenote. While with the Blues, Lowe had 78 fighting majors. Lowe came up for the Blues in their winning season during 2000-2001.
Lowe played in 56 games that year with 159 penalty minutes. This doesn’t seem like a whole lot, but then you realize out of the 159 PIM, 115 of those were from fighting majors.
That year the Blues had 60 fighting majors, the third-highest total since 2000. That year Lowe led the Blues with 23 fighting majors.
His rookie year he was tasked with protecting the likes of Pierre Turgeon, Al MacInnis, Pavol Demitra, Craig Conroy, and Scott Young. That was quite a few snipers to ensure weren’t receiving cheap shots on the nightly.
Lowe currently holds the number two and the number five spots for most penalty minutes in an NHL game. He had 57 penalty minutes vs. the Calgary Flames on 2/28/2002, and 53 vs. the Detroit Red Wings on 12/31/2002.
During the game vs. the Flames, he had three fighting majors, one vs. the Blues current head coach Craig Berube and one vs. Robyn Regehr. He also was assessed four misconducts and an instigator penalty.
During the New Years Eve game at Detroit, Lowe received four misconducts, one fighting major against Maxim Kuznetsov and four 2-minute minor penalties.
As with most on this list, Lowe had the most career fights against the Blackhawks with seven. Throughout his career, Low spread out his fights. He had three fights against Matt Johnson, and this was his high for any player he fought.
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