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Patrick Wellington Brown (born May 29, 1992) is an American professional ice hockey forward and captain for the Providence Bruins in the American Hockey League (AHL) while under contract to the Boston Bruins of the National Hockey League (NHL).
After a number of fights, a bench-clearing brawl broke out as the siren sounded to end the second period. [4] Amongst the fourteen altercations at the end of the second period [5] were the Canadiens' Mario Tremblay smashing the nose of the Nordiques' Peter Stastny, and Nordiques' Louis Sleigher knocking Canadiens' Jean Hamel unconscious by sucker-punching him in the eye. [3]
Early hockey in particular was noted for its extreme violence, to the point where two players were killed in three years during brawls. In both cases, the accused assailants were acquitted, but these and other bloody incidents led to calls for the sport to clean up its act or be banned along with the likes of cockfighting. [3]
All 10 players on the ice were ejected by officials after a wild fight during an NHL game between the Ottawa Senators and Florida Panthers.
The game took place at the Spectrum (pictured 2008) in Philadelphia on January 6, 1972. [1]The Philadelphia Flyers and the St. Louis Blues had both joined the National Hockey League (NHL) as expansion teams during the 1967 NHL expansion, [4] and going into the 1971–72 season, both teams were in the league's West Division. [5]
Perhaps the best goalie fight in hockey history went down on Apr. 1, 1998, in one late-season installment of the classic rivalry between the Detroit Red Wings and Colorado Avalanche.
Fights may be fought by enforcers, or "goons" (French: bagarreurs) [2] —players whose role is to fight and intimidate—on a given team, [3] and are governed by a system of unwritten rules that players, coaches, officials, and the media refer to as "the code". [4] Some fights are spontaneous, while others are premeditated by the participants. [5]
Less than two minutes into the game, the Wild and Predators mixed it up in two fights on the ice. First, Nashville winger Zachary L'Heureux and Minnesota center Yakov Trenin dropped gloves. Well ...