Biggest Brawls of the Last 23 Years
by Hawerchuk on Mar 12, 2010 9:00 AM EST
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PrintWe've only got data back to 1987, so a lot of the really big brawls of the past are missing. Here are the five-biggest regular season brawls plus the biggest playoff brawl:
#1. Ottawa vs Philadelphia, March 5, 2004 - 21 fighting majors, 20 game misconducts, 417 PIMs, Most Penalties in a Single Game Ever:
Ottawa Senators vs. Philadelphia Flyers Brawl March 5, 2004 (via Yoeddy1)
#2. Feb 10, 1991 - Washington vs Philadelphia. 21 fighting majors, 302 PIMs. Al Iafrate looks tired from his five fights:
Murray Baron vs Al Iafrate 02/10/91 (via igotregistered)
Hockey Fights - Steve Smith Vs. Al Iafrate (via tjackson76)
#3. Dec 8, 2001 - Calgary vs Anaheim. 19 fighting majors, 309 PIMs. Craig Berube starts everything by running and punching the goalie.
NHL Brawl Flames VS Ducks. (via storm1811)
#4 - Pittsburgh vs NYR. Oct 30, 1988. 292 PIMs following Mario Lemieux getting slashed in the throat.
Penguins vs. Rangers Brawl - Oct. 30, 1988 (via 55Porter)
#5 - Dec 23, 1988. Chicago vs Detroit. 20 Fighting majors, 308 PIMS and a Manson-Probert bout.
Bob Probert vs. Dave Manson Fight (December 23rd 1988) (via Germy2007)
Honorable Mention: Playoffs - Apr 12, 1991, Detroit vs St. Louis - 18 fighting majors, 298 PIMs.
Bob Probert vs. Dave Manson Fight (December 23rd 1988) (via Germy2007)
NHL Fights - Blues Vs Wings 4/12/91 (via tjackson76)
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I love the comment in the first video at about 1:16: “This might be what the Senators needed.” Yeah, I think the mythical “fight boost” loses its luster when it upgrades to a bench-clearer.
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by Bettman's Nightmare on Mar 12, 2010 9:49 AM EST reply actions
The Sens/Flyers brawl, awesome as it is, always felt a bit tainted to me — thanks to the refs, who had a complete meltdown and handed out misconducts and game misconducts to every player and most of the fans in the first few rows. No way that brawl was 100+ PIMs better than any other in history.
Still entertaining, though.
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by Down Goes Brown on Mar 12, 2010 9:52 AM EST reply actions
My favorite part...
is when they say “I don’t think anything will happen now with Sami Kapanen on the ice” – as if Kapanen wouldn’t go? C’mon…Kapanen is a warrior:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1E1EaHOQre0
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by Jordan Ellel on Mar 12, 2010 2:13 PM EST up reply actions
For anyone who’s interested in seeing it, here’s a link to the boxscore from the Philly/Ottawa game.
What a list!
This one probably falls short on both “fights” and PIM, but the Blues-Blackhawks “St. Patrick’s Day Massacre” is worth a mention. Two separate line brawls at Chicago Stadium.
It’s from 1990-91 when both teams were battling for not just the Norris Division title but also 1st place overall — yet each were upended in the playoffs by the upstart North Stars (whose run, if I’m not mistaken, helped spread the plague throughout the league of Gary Glitter music replacing organs and natural crowd noise after goals).
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Craig Berube starts everything by running and punching the goalie.
Didn’t Berube once touch off a big Caps/Flyers brawls by doing the same thing?
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by Down Goes Brown on Mar 12, 2010 1:15 PM EST reply actions
A few NHL additions to your list and a World Junior offering:
Habs/Flyers – May 13, 1987
http://www.puckreport.com/2009/05/today-in-nhl-history-montreal-pregame.html
Canada/Russia – January 4, 1987
http://www.puckreport.com/2010/01/today-in-nhl-history-world-junior-brawl.html
Habs/Nordiques – April 20, 1984
http://www.puckreport.com/2009/04/today-in-nhl-history-good-friday-brawl.html
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Habs-Nords was awesome. I don’t remember who it was, I thought it was Sleigher, skated onto the ice and jumped over somebody to get in on a brawl. Might have been a previous game in the series.
Three grat additions, those.
Trying to think how I would explain these old brawls to a young fan of today who doesn’t see them erupt in today’s game. “Sure it looks really silly now, but somehow they just … happened.” I wonder if two refs has helped reduce the kind of behind-the-play cheap stuff that helped fuel these eruptions.
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Two refs?
I hadn’t really noticed any effectiveness of the extra blind man this season…..
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by Goon-Squad on Mar 13, 2010 10:32 AM EST reply actions
The Ottawa-Philly brawl was preceded by Martin Havlat high-sticking Mark Recchi in a game one week previous. With a rematch scehduled in Philly three games later, NHL disciplinarian Colin “The Genius” Campbell suspended Havlat for TWO games. The brawl was predicted by everybody. Same thing happened that same season with Moore-Naslund/Bertuzzi. And presumably we can look forward to the same thing this week when Boston faces the unsuspended Matt Cooke.
Colin Campbell needs to go. He’s a fucking idiot.
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I think the March 13, 1998
game between the Ducks and Stars deserves an honorable mention. There was a lot of roughing minors and not letting Dave Karpa climb into the box to fight Ludwig that didn’t make it to the stat sheet, but it was clearly a ridiculous brawl. If the refs were willing to dole out a few more majors, it might have made this list.
by Arthur from Anaheim Calling on Mar 14, 2010 8:09 PM EDT reply actions
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