Weak Saturday with two fights

Usually Saturdays have a few fights because almost every team plays, but yesterday there was really one fight and the other one went so fast that the television cameras didn't even get it. The fight that was actually televised was between Lightnings' Ryan Craig and Panthers' Gregory Campbell. They had a short spirited bout with Campbell landing a what seemed to be big punch. I would give that one a draw though because it was all Craig at first in the fight. The fight that was missed by both television feeds was between Blue Jackets' Ole-Kristian Tollefsen and Coyotes' Keith Ballard. I have read that it was a quick fight with neither guy landing anything.

More fight wrap-ups, Thursday and Friday

Besides the Senators-Sabres line brawl on Thursday (February 22nd) there were some other good hockey fights. In the Oilers-Blue Jackets game there were two decent fights. The first one was between Mathieu Roy and Jody Shelley. It started because Shelley layed out an Oiler player with a good shoulder check. The Oiler player was down and looked to be in real pain. Roy came right over and dropped the gloves with Shelley. Good response by Roy, but I wouldn't give him the edge in the fight though. But he showed up and that's what counts. The second fight was between Jean-Francois Jacques and Ole-Kristian Tollefsen. Tollefsen roughed up an Oilers player and then challenged him to go but the Oiler player declined. The Oiler play then went to the bench for a line change and off the bench came Jacques who challenged Tollefsen right away. They went at it pretty good with Jacques getting in some good shots. I give the edge to Jacques in that fight. In the Flyers-Hurricanes game Todd Fedoruk dropped the gloves with Tim Gleason. Fedoruk hits Ryan Whitney and then at the whistle Gleason comes over to Fedoruk and away they go. They both exchange punches, Gleason looked to get the better shots on Fedoruk. I give the edge to Gleason in that one. Fedoruk still has not won a fight since he has been injured against Derek Boogaard.

On Friday there was only one fight and it was Bruins' Jeremy Reich vs Lightnings' Nick Tarnasky. They dropped the gloves off a faceoff and went at it. They both exchanged punches in close to each other. Reich I think caught a punch from Tarnasky and then lost his balance and fell down. I gave the edge to Tarnasky in that one. But I think you could also call it a draw.

I'll get to the hockey fights that happened on Saturday and Sunday later today hopefully.

Saturday night and one great fight

Usually on Saturdays there are a few hockey fights because almost every team plays on Saturdays, but there were only three hockey fights on Saturday. One of the fights though could be considered fight of the year, it was between St. Louis's Jamal Mayers and Nashville's Jordin Tootoo. If you watched the previous game between these two teams then you know why Tootoo was probably going to fight someone in this game. In their last game Tootoo was running around the whole game hitting anyone in sight and had a late hit as well which caused some fisticuffs. The fight between Mayers and Tootoo was a spirited one and before the fight happened Tootoo said something to the linesman which I'm assuming was "let us go." View the YouTube video below.

The other two fights had Buffalo's Adam Mair and Toronto's Ben Ondrus going at it, with a nice square off but both players didn't seem to land much in their scrap. And the third fight of the night was between Columbus's Ole-Kristian Tollefsen and San Jose's Christian Ehrhoff which also looked to have both players not landing much at all. I would give all three fights a draw.

Mair vs Meszaros, Gaustad vs Neil, Tollefsen vs Kostopoulos

Last night there were three fights but they weren't slugfests that we all like to watch. In the Buffalo Sabres vs Ottawa Senators game there were two fights. The first fight was between Adam Mair and Andrej Meszaros. The camera got there a little late but it looked like Mair was in control of most of the fight and I would give him the win. The second fight was between Paul Gaustad and Chris Neil. At the faceoff they talked and after the puck dropped Neil slashed at Gaustad and challenged Gaustad and they dropped the gloves and went at it. Not much of a fight but the decision goes to Neil in that fight. See a picture below of Neil and Gaustad fighting.

Chris Neil vs Paul Gaustad

In the Columbus Blue Jackets vs Los Angeles Kings game, there was a fight between Ole-Kristian Tollefsen and Tom Kostopoulos. It was all Tollefsen in their fight. Hopefully we get more fights tonight.