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School Of Fight: Learning To Brawl With The Hockey Goons Of Tomorrow
In which our writer goes to the notorious hockey fight camp for kids, takes a teenager's punch to the kidneys, and winds up finding the bruised soul of the game. Camp photos by Chris Buck....

Here's Matt Cooke Getting His
The noted cheap shot artist gets knocked out with one punch, and Evander Kane never has to buy a drink in Boston ever again....

Today In Police Intervention At Sporting Events
Courtesy of Puck Daddy, Daniel Rahimi of Rogel scored the game-winner in OT and, like all good villains, "shhh"-ed the crowd. The AIK fans took offense and expressed their disapproval by trying to fight the Rogel coaching staff....

Today In Sports Endurance Achievements: Three-Minute Hockey Fight
Saturday, St. Louis Blues bruiser Cam Janssen and New Jersey Devil's welterweight Pierre-Luc "I Wasn't In Duran Duran" Letourneau-Leblond lethrew down during the first period. Three minutes later, they had become Übermensch. [Fan House; tunes by TV on the Radio]...

And With That, Olympic Hockey Is Officially A Memory
Via "Wyshmaster" Wyshynski, excellent video of Sean Avery doing what Sean Avery does. Goading Max Talbot into a fight, then taunting him for his limp-wristed girly man slaps....

OK, Seriously, Time To Shut The Hell Up About Fighting And Olympic Hockey
The Olympic hockey games have been uniformly thrilling, to purists and casual fans alike. But there are murmurs, surely music to Gary Bettman's ears, that the lack of fighting is what's making the games so great....

Russian 9-Year-Olds Are All Goons
An under-10 game ends in a bench-clearing brawl between the Northern Star and the Penguins (9-year-old Sidney Crosby probably had someone do his fighting for him). Per the YouTube description: "Truly a rare record the NHL not always witness."...

Russian Hockey League Is Gonna Need A Bigger Penalty Box
A KHL game was canceled after 3:49 of the first period when a brawl resulted in 691 penalty minutes and not enough players left to finish the game. Also: a Jaromir Jagr sighting! [RussianHockeyFans/Fanhouse]...

You Don't Need Gonads To Be A Goon
And here's another heartwarming girls-in-sports story. Pennsylvania high school hockey gives us the rare mixed-gender brawl, spurred by two boys dropping the gloves against one feisty little lady. (Or in the unfortunate parlance of the YouTube poster, "tagteaming" her.)...

Fighting In Hockey Makes Everyone Serious For Awhile
Remember the old joke: "I went to a boxing match and a hockey game broke out?" Well, if you do ... then you're a bloodthirsty cretin. Or maybe an admirable warrior. I'm not sure yet....

Paraplegic Hockey Fights Are Just As Good As Any Other Kind
Sled hockey is just like regular hockey—same rules, same helmets, same slapshots—only tougher. It's hard enough to fight someone on skates; try maneuvering for a rabbit punch on that little sled....

Why Do You Make Me Hit You With This Hockey Stick?
Moon went down in a junior league (CHL) game after Oshawa Generals captain James DeLory slashed him in the knee from behind. Then DeLory rabbit-punched him in the face, but that's neither here nor there. But Greg Wyshynski over at Puck Daddy offers a different interpretation of the assault—Moon was ...

Parents Beating Up Refs; How We've Missed You
This one comes from London, Ontario, and while I'm not sure what age the players are, I'm guessing they are mighty young. (I think it was Henry Kissinger who said that "hockey parents are so vicious, precisely because the players are so small.") The fight itself was largely uneventful—no charges wer...

Apparently, Ray Emery Doesn't Like Hats
I don’t know if a hat killed former Ottawa goaltender Ray Emery’s father or if they just make his head scratchy, but if you ask him to wear one he will straight up murder you....

Mike Milbury Knows About Honorable Fighting
There's been some talk lately—as there usually is about once a year—about ending fighting in hockey. Of course, that would not put a stop to the much more entertaining fights between talking heads....

Mudbugs vs. Ice Rays Is The Greatest Rivalry In Sports
If you've ever seen two hockey teams more itching to fight than the two squads in this video, well … find that video and send it to us....

Douchebaggery Runs Deep In The Roy Family
You may remember last spring when we told you about the on-ice antics of Patrick Roy's son Jonathan, forcing a seemingly innocent opposing goalie into a fight. Well it looks like both of Roy's sons got the psycho gene. His other offspring, Frédérick, was caught cross-checking an opponent during a b...

Think Twice Before Kicking Jimmy's Sorry Ass
If I did ever happen to find myself in a fight with Jimmy, he couldn't do anything to me worse than subject me to this woman's profane shrieking. Please, dude, can you stop whaling on Jimmy for a second, and Marty McSorley this broad?...