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Bruins’ Shawn Thornton Performs “Twas The Night Before Christmas” with the Boston Pops (Video)
The list of interesting jobs performed by NHLers during the lockout is growing longer and weirder everyday. Just to recap, we’ve seen Vancouver’s David Booth hunting gigantic wild beasts, Montreal’s P.K. Subban doing the weather and training police dogs, Los Angeles’s Dustin Penner interning for Conan O’Brien, and pretty much everyone in the Nashville Predators’ [...]
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And The Award For The “2011-12 Frozen Fisticuffs Fighter Of The Year” Goes To…Shawn Thornton!
Last season it was Cam Janssen of the New Jersey Devils beating out the competition to earn the first ever “Frozen Fisticuffs Fighter of the Year” award. Janssen was in the running once again throughout the 2011-12 NHL season, but in the end, he would fall just short of earning the honor for the second [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Thornton vs. Rosehill — 3/6/12
During what may have very well been the best night of Fisticuffs from the 2011-12 NHL season, last night’s action on the ice provided a total of nine fight. At least half of those were worthy of some consideration for “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night” honors, including Dennis Seidenberg vs. Colby Armstrong, Brandon Dubinsky [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Thornton vs. Boulton — 3/1/12
Two of the NHL’s toughest and best enforcers squared off at center ice inside the TD Gardens last night, as Shawn Thornton and Eric Boulton came to blows during a game between the Boston Bruins and the New Jersey Devils. This type of altercation is certainly nothing new to these two combatants, who have combined [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Two From The Bruins vs. Sens — 1/31/12
If the Ottawa Senators want to compete in the Northeast Division, they have to show that they can hang in there with the defending Stanley Cup champion Boston Bruins. During last night’s meeting between the two teams, the Sens showed that they can go toe-to-toe with Boston both on the scoreboard, and on the fight [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Two From The Bruins vs. Flyers — 1/22/12
There were three fights that took place during a scrappy game between the Philadelphia Flyers and the Boston Bruins yesterday. Two of them were worthy recipients of the “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night” for Sunday, January 22, 2012. The first took place less than two minutes into the game, as the Flyers’ Tom Sestito [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Thornton vs. Stuart — 1/10/12
Boston Bruins enforcer Shawn Thornton had himself quite the game against the Winnipeg Jets last night. In addition to scoring a brilliant goal on a penalty shot to tie the game at 2-2, he also dropped the gloves with former teammate Mark Stuart during an entertaining tilt. Thornton would go on to make Stuart’s return [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Thornton vs. Janssen — 1/4/12
Anytime Shawn Thornton or Cam Janssen drop the gloves, and entertaining bout usually ensues. Last night those two enforcers dropped the gloves and squared off with one another during a game between the Boston Bruins and the New Jersey Devils, and as you’d probably expect, the end result was an action-packed bout that is worthy [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Konopka vs. Thornton — 11/1/11
Now that Zenon Konopka is playing in the Northeast division as a member of the Ottawa Senators, he will be seeing a lot more of Boston’s Shawn Thornton. That should result in plenty of bouts between these two combatants, as their two teams are scheduled to meet six times this season. Last night was the [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Bruins And Habs Brawl — 2/9/11
Much like we did one week ago when the Dallas Stars and the Boston Bruins treated us to a fight filled game at the TD Garden, it only seems appropriate that for this edition of the “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night” we take you back to last night’s battle between the Bruins and the [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night – Stars vs. Bruins – 2/2/11
How could we not come back to the game between the Boston Bruins and the Dallas Stars to award our “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night” for Thursday, February 3, 2011? It looks like this honor will have to be split between eight combatants as Steve Ott, Krys Barch, Brian Sutherby and Adam Burish of [...]
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Three Fights, Two Goals, The Greatest 80 Seconds Of Hockey You Will Ever Witness (Video)
If you showed up even a few minutes late to last night’s game between the Dallas Stars and the Boston Bruins, you are probably kicking yourself right about now. The Stars don’t make the trip out east to Boston all that often, but for some reason when they do things tend to get interesting. The [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Clifford vs. Thornton — 1/24/11
There was no shortage of great fights during last night’s NHL action, and while bouts between the Blues’ Cam Janssen and the Avs’ David Koci, and the Leafs’ Clarke MacArthur and the Canes Chad LaRose were quite entertaining, they simply couldn’t top the performance we received from the Los Angeles Kings’ Kyle Clifford and the [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night – Shelley vs. Thornton – 1/13/11
After putting on a strong performance in a bout against the Ottawa Senators’ Matt Carkner on Tuesday, it didn’t take Shawn Thornton long to make his next appearance on the “Frozen Fisticuffs Fight of the Night.” Just two days later the Boston Bruins hosted the Philadelphia Flyers, and Thornton felt it was only appropriate that [...]
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Frozen Fisticuffs Fight Of The Night — Carkner vs. Thornton — 1/11/11
Anytime two division rivals hook up it only seems fitting that their two enforcers engage in some fisticuffs. That was exactly what happened when the Ottawa Senators and the Boston Bruins did battle at the Gardens last night as Shawn Thornton and Matt Carkner dropped the gloves and exchanged blows during yet another exciting edition [...]
