Tag Archives: Hockey Fights
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Yet Another Bench-Clearing Brawl from a Russian Youth Hockey Game (Video)
For years and years, hockey hardliners in North America criticized European players as soft while praising the virtue of hard-nosed Canadians. However, judging by what we’re seeing at the youth level in Russia these days, the next generation of Russian NHLers will be pretty damn tough. A couple years back we saw a bunch of [...]
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Canadiens and Senators Engage in Epic Playoff Line Brawl (Videos)
You generally don’t see as many hockey fights during the playoffs as you do in the regular season. The reason is that, during the playoffs, every single minute is crucial, and every single player is needed. If a guy isn’t deemed absolutely crucial to his team, then he isn’t in the lineup. So teams just [...]
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Islanders’ Matt Martin Knocked the Devils’ Tom Kostopoulos Out Cold (Video)
Personally, I don’t like it when one hockey player challenges another to a fight after the other guy makes a good, clean hit. It’s not that I don’t like hockey fights. I love ‘em, so long as they’re part of the game and not pre-arranged. However, when you fight somebody over a legal check, you [...]
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Line Brawl!: Kid Throws Cheap Shot After Cheap Shot at Minor Hockey Game in PEI (Video)
Another day, another incident of violence at a Canadian minor hockey game. Yesterday, of course, we told you about a bunch of classy parents brawling at a Class C Bantam (15 and under) game in rural Ontario. Today’s incident? A line brawl at a Class AA Midget (18 and under) game in PEI. The two [...]
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Colton Orr’s Stat Line vs. Sabres: 29 Penalty Minutes in Two Seconds of Ice Time (Video)
Last night, the Toronto Maple Leafs’ Colton Orr gave us one of the most incredible stat lines in the history of the NHL. The goon scored 0 goals, notched 0 assists, 0 shots, and had 0 hits. However, in just two seconds of ice time, the dude racked up—are you ready for this?—29 minutes in [...]
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Senators’ Dave Dziurzynski Knocked Out Cold by the Leafs’ Frazer McLaren (Video)
Ottawa Senators winger Dave Dziurzynski should have just listened to his instincts. Last night in Toronto, Leafs enforcer Frazer McLaren asked the 23-year-old rookie from Lloydminster, Alberta, if he wanted to drop the gloves. It was just 26 seconds into the game, and McLaren thought his team was sluggish and needed a spark. But Dziurzynski [...]
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Behold the Most Pathetic Attempt at a Hockey Fight of All-Time (Video)
It would be unreasonable to expect every hockey fight to be epic. Even in a league like the Ligue Nord-Américaine de Hockey, a small-time pro league that’s pretty much made up entirely of goons, the fights can’t all be Ali-Frazier…or even Mirasty-Gillies. Some of them have to be duds. That’s just the law of averages. [...]
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Last Night’s Leafs-Lightning Game Featured a Bout Between Ali and Frazier?
If you happened to hear somebody talk about an “Ali-Frazier” fight at last night’s game between the Toronto Maple Leafs and Tampa Bay Lightning, you might have assumed that somebody was commenting on the quality of the bout by making a comparison to one of boxing’s most famous rivalries between Muhammad Ali and Smokin’ Joe [...]
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Zac Rinaldo Was Mic’d Up When He Knocked Out B.J. Crombeen on Tuesday (Videos)
You might think fighting ought to be eliminated from hockey. Or you might think it’s essential and that eliminating it would ruin the game. Or you might think it’s the only thing that makes a game worth watching at all. But regardless of your views on fighting in hockey, you’re going to like this video. [...]
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Last Night We Saw Another Epic Hockey Fight Between Colton Orr and Deryk Engelland (Video)
You know that old joke that goes, “I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out”? Well, it’s obviously making fun of (or perhaps taking pride in) the tendency for hockey players to settle their differences with fisticuffs. However, it’s actually a little more true than casual observers realize. You see, hockey’s [...]
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This Hockey Fight From the AHL Was Worth the Price of Admission (Video)
Hockey fans all over the world are certainly grateful that by this time next week the NHL will be back in action. However, the absence of the NHL over the last four months hasn’t deprived us of noteworthy hockey highlights. After all, many NHLers were keeping sharp by playing over in Europe (sometimes in the [...]
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Russian Youth Hockey Game Called Off After Multiple Line Brawls (Video)
The next time Don Cherry either insinuates or openly asserts that Russian hockey players are soft and don’t know how to mix it up, kindly direct him to this video. Because, obviously, the next generation of Russian players have taken the hockey oracle’s critique to heart and have overcorrected just a bit. What am I [...]
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NHL Lockout Results In Another Epic Fight Between Legendary Hockey Enforcers Jon Mirasty and Trevor Gillies (Video)
Saskatchewan native Jon Mirasty is 5’10. He was not drafted by an NHL team, and he has not played a single game in the NHL. However, for hardcore hockey fans, he has become somewhat of a legend. Why? Because, despite his relatively diminutive size, Mirasty is tough as nails and always willing to drop the [...]
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A Couple Of AHL Goalies Duked It Out Saturday Night (Video)
Hey, NHL, who needs you? You think other hockey leagues don’t give us great goals and line brawls? Well, they do! And while sometimes the highlights from these other leagues aren’t quite as impressive at the ones we’d get from the NHL,that certainly isn’t always the case. Take this goalie fight from Saturday night, for [...]
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Check Out This Line Brawl From An English Junior Hockey League Game (Video)
Did you know they play hockey in Great Britain? Well, they do. In fact, they actually have a three-tiered league system (much like they do with soccer), with the Elite Ice Hockey League at the top, the English Premier Ice Hockey League just under that, and the National Ice Hockey League the next rung down [...]
