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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Boll vs. Brookbank — 1/8/12
After surrendering a goal early in the third period, the Columbus Blue Jackets found themselves trailing the Anaheim Ducks by a score of 6-2 last night. At that point, it seemed almost certain that the Jackets wouldn’t win the game, but they wanted to make sure that they didn’t lose the war as well. Enter [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — McGrattan vs. Boll — 11/19/11
There was plenty of action during Saturday night’s game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Nashville Predators, as overtime was needed in order for the Preds to record the 4-3 victory. However, despite all of the goals that were scored, perhaps the most entertaining part of the game came in the first minute, as [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Brookbank And Dorsett Go For Two — 10/30/11
Sunday night’s game between the Columbus Blue Jackets and the Anaheim Ducks was a fight-filled affair, with four bouts taking place during the game. Two of those fights featured the same combatants, as the Ducks’ Sheldon Brookbank and the Jackets’ Derek Dorsett dropped the gloves twice, producing two equally entertaining exchanges. One of these fights [...]
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Jamie Benn Gives Us This Early Candidate For “Goal Of The Year” (Video)
After recording 22 goals in each of his first two seasons in the NHL, there was plenty of buzz surrounding 22-year-old Jamie Benn heading into the 2011-12 season. Through the first six games of the season, the Dallas Stars’ forward has done a good job living up to that hype. Benn has five points already [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — McLeod vs. Dorsett — 10/12/11
With only one fight taking place during yesterday’s slate of NHL games, we weren’t left with much of a choice for our “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night,” but that didn’t matter, as the one fight that did take place was quite the doozy. It was between Cody McLeod of the Colorado Avalanche and Derek [...]
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Let’s Watch Brendan Shanahan Lay Down The Law On James Wisniewski (Video)
After hiring him to replace Colin Campbell as the NHL’s head disciplinarian on June 1, 2011, Brendan Shanahan has yet to hold the position during the regular season, but he is already doing a band-up job. Shanahan has been busy, handing out a total of five suspensions during the pre-season, which span a total of [...]
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This Day In Sports History (March 16th) – Brittanie Cecil
It was on this day in 2002 that 13-year-old Brittanie Cecil was struck in the head by a puck while attending a Columbus Blue Jackets game at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. Brittanie would die two days later of a torn vertebral artery, which resulted in severe clotting and swelling of the brain. It was [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night –Another Classic From Boll And Janssen — 3/7/11
The first time these two fought, it was 60 seconds of action. For an encore, the Blue Jackets Jared Boll and the Blues Cam Janssen added on an additional 40 seconds in what turned out to be 100 seconds of fist-flying mayhem. This was just one of the many events to take place during the [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Dorsett vs. Lovejoy — 2/8/11
Saved by the official. That was how Derek Dorsett must have felt following a fight with Ben Lovejoy last night. After delivering a flurry of punches to the face of the Penguins’ enforcer, Dorsett found himself with a jersey over his head. Unable to see, the Blue Jackets’ tough guy was about to endure a [...]
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Pens’ Matt Cooke Drills Blue Jackets’ Fedor Tyutin From Behind (Video)
Following a dirty knee from the Penguins’ Matt Cooke on the Capitals’ Alex Ovechkin during the final minutes of Sunday afternoon’s game, Caps’ coach Bruce Boudreau had this to say: “It’s Matt Cooke. Need we say more?” Boudreau said. “It’s not like it’s his first rodeo. He’s done it to everybody. And then he goes to [...]
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Panthers’ Cory Stillman Scores With His Face (Video)
Some hockey coaches will say “you should always use your head when out on the ice.” Others will tell you that “a goal is a goal, no matter how ugly it is.” I’m guessing Cory Stillman has heard both of these before, and after his first period goal Wednesday night against the Columbus Blue Jackets, [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Boll vs. Hordichuk — 1/19/11
Don’t be fooled by the speed at which it appears these two combatants are throwing their flurry of punches. There is no fast forwarding in the video below. It is all in real time, which is what makes this intense, hi-speed battle between the Columbus Blue Jackets’ Jared Boll and the Florida Panthers’ Darcy Hordichuk [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Dorsett vs. Clifford — 1/8/11
Sunday provided us with little entertainment in terms of hockey fights, which forced us to turn to Saturday’s action in search of our “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night” for the weekend. That is where we found a rather exciting bout which took place between the Los Angeles Kings’ Kyle Clifford and the Columbus Blue [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night – Two For Staubitz – 12/27/10
One fight in a night will give you a chance of making our “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night.” Two fight will almost certainly guarantee you such an honor, especially when both bouts are as entertaining as the two that Minnesota Wild forward Brad Staubitz engaged in last night. Taking on the Columbus Blue Jackets, [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night – Boll vs. Jackman – 12/21/10
Short and sweet. That is the way Tim Jackman and Jared Boll seem to like their fights. With the attention focused on the play in the Calgary Flames’ zone during their game against the Columbus Blue Jackets last night, both combatants decided to air their grievances in a rather quick fashion, dropping their gloves behind [...]
