Best hockey fight you've seen?

[UrbScotty]

Hockey fans may remember the fight a few years ago between then-Detroit Red Wings goalie Chris Osgood and the now-retired Patrick Roy of the Colorado Avalanche. I think it was in 1998 or 1999.



The best one I've seen in person was one at a minor-league game when the Grand Rapids Griffins player just tore apart the Manitoba Moose player.

By the way, if you're an NHLer, unless you can fight, stay away from Darreen McCarty, Claude Lemieux, and Tae Domi.

[markus]

1. Never been a hockey fan, but

I remember when I first got cable in the early 80s and watched my first game. New York v. New Jersey. There was a bench clearer that resulted in the suspention of an entire period (the second, I think). One goalie skated the length of the ice, launched himself into the air, and took out the other goalie (who was involved with one of this players), slamming him into the wall.

[Bonhomme Richard]

2. Broad Street Bullies..........

So many to choose from. Dave Schultz and the rest of the Flyers during the 70's.

[everythingsxen]

3. I've only been to two live hockey games..

The first was the Tampa Bay Lightning vs. The San Jose Sharks. There was one nice fight that game.

Second game was Lightning vs. Ottawa Senators. Two really good fights, nothing major though.

[The Lone Liberal]

4. Oliver Barrett IV having a go at fisticuffs...

against some unknown Ivy League player.

While Jenny Cavalleri and Oliver Barrett III watched on. Great fight up on the big screen.

[SmileyBoy]

5. I once went to a Minnesota Wild game...

Wild were playing the Red Wings at the X in 2001, I think. The referee actually BODY-SLAMMED a Red Wings player two minutes before overtime. My friend and I were walking out early for some stupid reason (it was the most exciting part of the game), and we walked up to the middle concourse and stood there to catch it, though I don't remember much of what happened.

[TN al]

6. hockey is worse for the fights

having said that any fight with Jordan Tootoo of the Predators is worth watching

[UrbScotty]

7. Well, it is better to get in trouble on the ice than off. (nt)

[TheMightyFavog]

8. Back during the Mid-90s

The Devil's goalie (can't remember his name) starts going at it with Dino Ciccarelli in fron of his net. Fucker kept the Wings offside.

[BrotherBuzz]

9. The Foreman Frazier fight in Kingston, Jamaica (1972)

Foreman dropped Frazier six times before the fight was stopped in the second round.

Oh, hockey fight...I'm a California kid and I know squat about hockey.

[RedEarth]

10. I'm not a fan of "ice boxing", I used to enjoy watching hockey

years ago, when the game involved more finesse and less mugging.

[MrSlayer]

11. Man, the 70's and 80's ruled for fights.

Chris Nilan vs Jay Miller (85)
Rick Tocchet vs Wendell Clark (87)
Billy Smith vs the whole Rangers team. (multiple times)



So many great fighters.

Bhen Wilson, Jom Korn, Gary Rissling, Clark Gillies, Dave Schultz, Terry O., Larry Playfair, King Kong Korab, Joey Kocur, Tony Twist, Bob Probert, Gary Holt, Dave Semenko, Tim Hunter, Harold Snepsts, Jeff Brubaker, Wally Weir, etc.

[DoctorBombay]

16. You forgot Tiger Williams!!!

He was a mean SOB...

In the 80s, some of the best fights I remember were part of the Calgary-Edmonton rivalry, Neil Sheehy (CGY) vs. Marty McSorely (EDM).

[Michigander4Dean]

12. McCarty and Lemieux went at it a lot, didn't they?

Ever since Lemieux slammed Draper (?) into the boards in that 1996 playoffs, Avs/Wings games have been wild - and no, not Minnesota Wild.

[youngred]

26. That single play

earned Lemieux and the Avs a permanant spot on my enemies list. It was the birth of their rivalry in the West.

[Michigander4Dean]

13. Thrashers v. Flyers last night - 419 penalty minutes last night

A new NHL record. SEVEN HOURS of penalty minutes last night.

[DoctorBombay]

17. Wasn't it the Senators?

I saw the Lalime-Esche fight, that was sort of funny.

Wierd to see Ottawa involved, they are the epitome of a turn the other cheek team. Maybe this is a good sign for them, that they can get riled up.

[Kat45]

14. Back in the day, teams would have a player or 2 for his fighting skills

"Goons." Their hockey skills might not be that great, but man could they go at it. That was before the rules got changed with more penalty minutes and such to prevent bench-clearing brawls. I loved watching the Bruins in the early seventies: good players, two Stanley Cups, and they could fight with the best of them.

[DoctorBombay]

15. In college...

..I was the radio play-by-play man for my school's club hockey team. (Three straight national club championships in the mid-90s, starting my senior year)

Anyhow, one melee, against the University of Michigan at Dearborn got so out of hand, one of our players managed to get thrown out of the game twice.

There was a scrap that involved all five skaters for both sides that took about three or four minutes. Gloves, sticks everywhere. One guy from each team, the instigators, got game misconducts. Everything was dying down, and I was about to to throw it back to the station for a PSA or something, and something happened between the Dearborn player and the linesman who was escoring him off the ice. The linesman went down, and all hell broke loose. The benches emptied, and our ejected player heard the ruckus and came back onto the ice and joined the fray.

After this was all settled, they announced the penalties, and our player had been given a second game misconduct for the game. I remember saying something like "I believe we may have witnessed hockey history" or something like that on the air.

[UrbScotty]

23. Wow. That and markus's pick are my top two. (nt)

[Robb]

18. The Osgood/Roy fight was the first thing I thought of...

...Something about the goalies deciding they'd rough around just cracked me up. They had to skate forever to get to each other!

Was that the same game that started with the opening whistle and Claude immediately throwing his gloves and whaling on someone? :)

[ironflange]

19. Back in the 60's and early 70's

You could count on seeing banch-clearing brawls at least once every couple of weeks. Three officials on the ice had their work cut out for them when that happened, but they would always fizzle out sooner or later. Remember, also, that the guys didn't wear helmets in those days (except for the candy-asses). My otherwise sainted grandmother, all 4' 9" of her, would always watch Hockey Night in Canada in the hopes of seeing a good dust-up.

[AngryAmish]

20. Probert v. Domi

Pick any of them. They had some good ones.
(Also before Probert went to the Blackhawks and quit using coke.)

[VOX]

21. Stu Grimson vs. Marty McSorley...

Ducks - Kings respectively, 93-94 season, as I recall. It was on a face off, they had their gloves off before the puck hit the ice. They bloodied each other's mugs, and the ice.

[DancingBear]

22. The Domi-Probert ones weren't too bad

And ANY of the Bruin-Flyer stuff of the Wensink-O'Reilly-Jonathan era.

I hurt just WATCHING them...

[Bozita]

24. Old-timers remember the Gordie Howe - Lou Fontinato bloodbath

Leapin' Lou's remodeled face graced many a magazine cover that week.

Late '50s.

[youngred]

25. I agree it was the Osgood/Roy fight

OZZIE LAID HIM TO WASTE