The Washington Capitals and Tampa Bay Lightning game got chippy when Nicolas Aube-Kubel nailed Cal Foote with a headshot during the second period. The two teams angrily chatted with each other as officials reviewed the call, resulting in a fight and misconducts between Garnet Hathaway and Pat Maroon.
By Ian Oland 3 months ago
In the hours leading up to Wednesday’s rematch between the Capitals and Rangers, the Rangers organization called Tom Wilson’s role in a line brawl on Monday “a horrific act of violence.” Rangers players said Wilson had no respect for the game or its players. And the team said the Department of Player Safety’s George Parros should be fired after choosing to fine, not suspend the Capitals forward. The Rangers essentially painted themselves into a corner, where there had to be retribution in Wednesday’s game.
And retribution there was.
The Rangers and Capitals opened the game with a line brawl. All six forwards on the ice fought. Before the game was five minutes old, the teams dropped the mitts six different times.
By Ian Oland 2 years ago
The Washington Capitals and New York Rangers got in a line brawl in the second period after Vitek Vanecek went to the splits to make a goal-line stop on Pavel Buchnevich during a Caps penalty kill.
As the play was whistled dead, Tom Wilson punched Buchnevich in the side of the head as the Rangers’ forward laid defenseless and face down on the ice.
Things deteriorated from there.
By Ian Oland 2 years ago
For those of you who like violence in your hockey, there was a lot of hacking, whacking, and face-punching in the Boston Bruins-Tampa Bay Lightning game, Saturday night.
In the second period, there was an all-out line brawl after Anthony Cirelli cross-checked future Hall of Famer Zdeno Chara to the ice from behind.
NESN’s Jack Edwards, who’s notorious for his homerific and over-the-top commentating, had the call.
I’m always a fan of goalies doing things other than stopping shots, which is why I’m bringing you video of the line brawl between the Calgary Flames and Arizona Coyotes Saturday night.
Goaltenders David Rittich and Darcy Kuemper both left their creases and got involved in the line brawl. Rittich tried to play more of a peacekeeper role while Kuemper was throwing hands at Matthew Tkachuk.
Orlando is currently hosting Wrestlemania, but the main event just happened in Columbus, Ohio.
With 8:39 left in the third period, the Capitals and Blue Jackets engaged in a line-brawl that almost saw Braden Holtby and Sergei Bobrovsky come to blows. It ended with Alex Ovechkin making a hand motion to Blue Jackets forward Josh Anderson, encouraging him to wipe the blood off his nose.
Former Capitals defenseman Mike Green usually is a lover, not a fighter. Hence why I was surprised to see Green jump head first into an angry line brawl during the waning moments of Wings/Bolts Game Two.
Late in the first period, Michael Latta stuck out his leg and tripped Jets center Mark Scheifele. Defenseman Jacob Trouba responded by cross-checking Latta, and then they fought at center ice for nearly a full minute.
Meanwhile, a mini line brawl began behind the play, with Tom Wilson skating towards Mark Stuart and wrestling him down to the ice.
Photo: @nikkibrust
Last week, the Caps and Penguins played one of the most tense games of the season. It included a first-period brawl that spilled onto the Pens bench. For whatever reason, NBCSN showed us just one or two angles of the dust-up and then moved on. On Reddit, user beardyman22 shared a story that didn’t make it to air that night.
We knew from the moment Tom Wilson shoved Evgeni Malkin during warm-ups that tonight’s game would be a cluster. Sure enough, eight minutes into the first period, everything went to hell.
By Ian Oland 8 years ago
