Thursday and Friday fight roundup

I didn't have time to post about Thursday and Friday's fights until now so here we go. Thursday night there were four hockey fights. Panthers' Alexei Semenov and Flyers' Todd Fedoruk had a wrestling match where both guys didn't throw many punches and Semenov somehow fell down to the ice. I give that one a draw. In the Canadiens-Thrashers game, Francis Bouillon put a dirty knee-on-knee hit on Marian Hossa and Keith Tkachuk went after him. They both exchanged some good punches but Tkachuk got in the last punch that sent Bouillon down to the ice. Tkachuk gets the TKO win there. Watch the YouTube video of this fight below.

Francis Bouillon vs Keith Tkachuk

In the Flames-Predators game, Robyn Regehr and Jordin Tootoo had a battle where both guys threw punches and Regehr went down from losing his balance I think. I would maybe give a slight edge to Tootoo in this one, or a draw. In the Stars-Blues game, Barrett Jackman kept following Eric Lindros around the ice challenging him to fight and finally Lindros came back with a cross-check and then they dropped the gloves and had a wrestling match with not many punches thrown at all. I give this one a draw.

On Friday there were three fights. First there was Hurricanes' Tim Gleason and Capitals' Ben Clymer going at it in a short fight where not many punches were thrown. Clymer bumped into the Hurricanes' goalie which caused this fight. Draw in this one because no one landed anything, Gleason did throw two punches but both missed. In the Wild-Sabres game, Stephane Veilleux and Patrick Kaleta grab a hold of each other and drop the gloves in front of the Sabres bench after a scrum. Veilleux throws lefts and Veilleux throws rights. Veilleux eventually wrestles Kaleta down to the ice. I give this one a draw.

In the Oilers-Ducks game Zack Stortini and George Parros had some talking early in the game but Stortini declined the challenge from Parros. Later, Parros layed out an Oilers player and Stortini came in with gloves off after Parros. Stortini holds Parros in tight and it looks like Parros is trying to get free and apart from Stortini so they can fight but Stortini keeps the hug on a la Donald Brashear. They eventually go down to the ice. This one was a draw as not much happened. I don't know why Stortini drops the gloves and wants to go with Parros and then just hugs him the whole time. Protect your teammates and fight, don't hug. Maybe Stortini has new NHL syndrome?

The last fights before the break

Well the NHL All-Star break has hit us and we'll have to wait until Friday, January 26th to resume watching the regular season action. Last night though provided us with some action. In the Senators-Bruins game, Christoph Schubert hit Paul Mara head-first into the boards. Mara got up pissed off, dropped his gloves and chased him. When he got a hold of Schubert he pounded his ass to the ice. Schubert got 5, and Mara got 2, 5, 10. Later in the second period of the game, Bruins hard-hitting defenseman Andrew Alberts layed out Senators forward Chris Kelly with a hit into the boards behind the Bruins net. Alberts left his feet and looked to push Kelly's head into the boards. Alberts got 5 and a game misconduct for that hit. But why didn't Schubert get a game misconduct for his cheap hit earlier in the second period?

From BostonHerald.com, here are a few quotes from the Bruins' Paul Mara:

"It was a dirty hit," said Mara. "A player has to do what a player has to do. ... If it happened again, I'd probably do the same thing. If it happened to a teammate I'd jump in for him. That's part of the game."

"Alberts' hit was borderline," said Mara. "I think Schubert's was a lot worse, but that's the way things have been going for us. ... I think if Kelly didn't go down and pretend that he's injured, then I don't think you'd see a five-minute major. It might be two minutes for roughing or something, but other than that, it's a borderline call."

The best game of the night had to be the Calgary Flames vs the Edmonton Oilers, the "Battle of Alberta" continued on. With the Oilers calling up Zack Stortini I thought for sure he and Eric Godard would go at it, but I was wrong as they chatted a few times but nothing happened. Instead Marcus Nilson and Marty Reasoner had a go and so did Robyn Regehr and Jason Smith in an ok battle.

In other games, the Blackhawks Bryan Smolinski and Predators Marek Zidlicky had a short fight. In the Maple Leafs-Penguins game, the Maple Leafs were being blown out so that led to a few fights. There was Bryan McCabe vs Chris Thorburn, Hal Gill vs Chris Thorburn, and Travis Green vs Maxime Talbot.