In you-can’t-make-this-stuff-up news, Vegas Golden Knights enforcer Ryan Reaves and New York Islanders forward Ross Johnston dropped the gloves in an NHL game because they wanted to impress someone famous in the crowd.
The two behemoths fought three seconds into the game immediately after the opening faceoff.
Thursday night in Brooklyn, Tom Wilson had his chimes rung by Cal Clutterbuck. Clutterbuck was angry about an earlier, unintentional hit by Wilson. One would guess there would be some carryover as the two teams completed their home and home at Capital One Arena, Friday night.
And indeed there was. In the second period, Islanders’ enforcer Ross Johnston asked Wilson to dance after a big hit. Wilson, however, is suffering from a broken nose so he was like Nuh uh, I’m cool standing here by the punch bowl. Johnston did not take Tom’s rejection well and this was the angry, awkward result.
