Kanada Kev Posted January 11, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 11, 2010 http://ca.sports.yahoo.com/nhl/blog/puck_daddy/post/Video-KHL-brawl-clears-benches-ends-game-after?urn=nhl,212617Video: KHL brawl clears benches, ends game after four minutesBy Sean LeahyThe Kontinental Hockey League may be taking the NHL's bottom-tier and overage players for the most part, but one thing they've provided to the hockey world in their two seasons of existence is plenty of YouTube-worthy brawls. Just over a week ago Barys Astana and SKA St. Petersburg had a brawl that featured former NHL'ers Sergei Zubov(notes), Oleg Saprykin(notes), friend of Puck Daddy Kevin Dallman(notes), commercial superstar Robert Esche(notes), and even a goalie-on-defenseman scrap.Sovetsky Sport writer Genadi Boguslavski tweeted out details of today's punch-up that featured Vityaz Chekhov and Avangard Omsk. It didn't take long for things to go from a line-brawl to the bench-clearing variety.This first video features Jaromir Jagr(notes) in a bit of a tussle and apparently trying out some new Greco-Roman wrestling moves: Now we get to the part where things jumped up a notch. Here are two line-brawls that occurred with the final one beginning after three orchestrated scraps right off the faceoff. Eventually, the benches and penalty boxes were emptied:If the KHL is going to hand out suspensions here, it should be to the goaltenders for both teams. Here you have every single player in uniforms tied up with an opponent and both sets of goalies are likely having conversations about Jaromir Jagr's new semi-mullet or Russia's failure to qualify for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. Haven't they seen YouTube clips of the brawls between the Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings in the mid-1990's? Maybe Ray Emery's(notes) influence on KHL goaltending wasn't great enough?Boguslavski also reported that the game was called in the fourth minute and 637 penalty minutes were handed out. Even the guy who sells giant foam fingers got a five-minutes. The stat chart is seemingly never-ending and you'll notice a lot of familiar names on the list such as Alexander Svitov(notes), Anton Babchuk(notes), Eric Perrin(notes), Jakub Klepsis as well as some former minor league tough guys in Brandon Sugden(notes) and Darcy Verot(notes) who participated in today's fun.After the jump, reaction from Avangard's president and KHL president Alexander Medvedev.After the game, Avangard's president Anatoli Bardin placesd blame on Vityaz for starting the brawl as he told Sovetsky Sport: "I am a former ref myself, but I have never seen anything like that. Everything started during the pre-game warm ups, when Darcy Verot shot the puck at Lasse Kukkonen(notes). It was a provocation that started the fight. But we went to Chekhov not looking for that. We don't even have a tough guy on our team. And then, the day after we have a very important game against Salavat Yulaef. Why would we need game misconduct penalties? But Vityaz players after the brawl was stopped went to their locker rooms happy. And the question is not whether we need this type of hockey, but whether we need teams like Vityaz? The Chekhov team is embarassing the KHL! We are constantly communicating with the league at the moment and hope that the most severe punishments will be assessed on Sunday. Jaromir Jagr is still in shock after the incident. Even he had to fight today. There was no other way for him." KHL President Alexander Medvedev issued a statement in reaction to today's game: "We are aware of what happened in Chekhov. But it is too early to draw any conclusions. We don't know everything, although it is obvious that it is wrong to fight in pre-game warm ups. Nevertheless, we have to study the video footage, listen to representatives of both sides, and only after that should we come to an informed decision."As noted by Sovetsky Sport, Avangard and Vityaz aren't strangers to incidents whenever they meet. The two teams faced each other the day Alexei Cherepanov collapsed on the bench and eventually died.Stick-tap to Dave Stubbs of the Montreal Gazette for alerting the Twitter world of this story and thanks to Dmitry for sending over the Sovetsky Sport links and for translating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 14, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 14, 2010 Ovechkin almost fights. Too bad it was interrupted: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 17, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2010 Wayyy too cool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 Thanks for posting that Kev.Makes me glad that TSN wrested that tune from the cold, dead hands of The Corpse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 Cool, eh? As for the song? Well, i'm glad it's still used for hockey broadcasts. In terms of the Corpse? Well, i'm glad they didn't fork over the blackmail amount of over $3million for the continued rights for it. We've all survived HNIC without it right? Did i hear that drum kit is now going into the hall of fame? Peart rocks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hamilton Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 Yeah, but the new CBC HNIC song SUCKS ASS. No, it doesn't ruin my Saturday night or anything, but it *is* pretty pathetic. Not as bad as the LeafsTV "anthem", but then again nothing could possibly be as bad as that so I guess that's not a fair comparison. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Freak By Night Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 Hey, I just realized something - wasn't Alex Lifeson involved in the selection and production of the new HNIC song? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 18, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 Sweetfuckinggoal! http://www.wimp.com/goalhockey/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted January 19, 2010 Report Share Posted January 19, 2010 I saw that goal on a TV sportscast today... just SICK! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 21, 2010 one-handed shootout goal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 I don't know about the jumping in the air bit, but what was Price thinking coming out that far to play the puck??? You leave your crease and play the puck you are just another player and are open to a hit. Mind you, this one was more like charging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Low Roller Posted January 22, 2010 Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 As a soccer goalie I am well aware of the perils of charging out of your net to get the ball away from a breakaway situation. I'm thinking that Carey just got pissed off at his D and said "fuck it, I'll just do it all by myself." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 22, 2010 Maybe he was just mad that nobody was accepting BGL's dance invitations BTW - what's up with Gaborik last night (why start a fight with a psycho?) Good to see his teammates helping him out: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esau. Posted January 25, 2010 Report Share Posted January 25, 2010 http://bruinslegends.blogspot.com/2006/06/stan-jonathan.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 29, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2010 (edited) Edited January 29, 2010 by Guest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted January 31, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 31, 2010 nice goal: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
c-towns Posted February 3, 2010 Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Bwaaahhahahha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Kanada Kev Posted February 3, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 3, 2010 Great hit!!! Clutterbuck ... what a handle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rubberdinghy Posted February 4, 2010 Report Share Posted February 4, 2010 Hextall's nekkid! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted February 5, 2010 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2010 How come I can't see this at work??? f'in filters http://www.hottiesofhockey.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanada Kev Posted March 25, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 A bunch of Gretzky pics that haven't been seen very much: http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/multimedia/photo_gallery/1003/nhl.wayne.gretzky.rare.photos/content.1.html Styx? Mr. Bubble? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBigTime Posted March 25, 2010 Report Share Posted March 25, 2010 spooky.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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