OT: Huge AHL Bench Brawl (Grand Rapids vs Rockford)
Tonight in Rockford the Griffins and IceHogs had a HUGE bench brawl. The brawl occured 11:58 into the second period with Grand Rapids up 6-3. The brawl started right after a Landon Ferraro powerplay goal, which came on Rockford's 7th minor penalty to that point.
Edit: Embed Fail, see below.
January 20th, 2013 at 1:51 AM ^
Cool man.
January 20th, 2013 at 2:01 AM ^
Sorry the embed failed, I have fixed below. Wouldn't have posted with no link, no video, etc.
January 20th, 2013 at 2:07 AM ^
To embed within an OP, go about embedding as usual, but click "use old embed code" before copying the link.
January 20th, 2013 at 7:50 AM ^
Sounds like the IT guy here works at my place, too.
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January 20th, 2013 at 6:57 PM ^
Hey, real men wear pink .
January 20th, 2013 at 7:36 AM ^
at the 1 min mark in the video, it shows a player starting to fight an opponent who was already engaged in a fight...what kind of bitch is he
January 20th, 2013 at 1:19 PM ^
as well. Shortly after that 2 guys were engagded in a fight, throwing ounches, and he came and threw 2 punches on the Griffins guy. It appeared to be McCardle
January 20th, 2013 at 2:02 AM ^
January 20th, 2013 at 2:11 AM ^
In the Griffins defense, Rockford had the following players dressed, and should have realized this when they all were on the ice at one time!
Philippe Paradis - 26 games 88 PIMS
Kyle Beach- 32 Games 142 PIMS
Wade Brookbank- 17 Games 72 PIMS (averaging 150+ past 4 seasons)
Rob Flick- 35 Games 60 PIMS (Had 91 Pims last season and 167 PIMS in '11)
January 20th, 2013 at 7:43 AM ^
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January 20th, 2013 at 9:02 AM ^
I agree to a certain extent, but it's not irrelevant. The Wings needed someone to go after Shea Weber last year after he smashed Zetterberg's head against the glass. Not going after Weber after something like that suggests a sort of apathy for the series, whereas back in the day a guy like McCarty going after Weber could have been a big momentum pusher for the Wings.
It's particularly relevant to the Penguins. They always need a fighter to protect Crosby because guys go after him so often.
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January 20th, 2013 at 11:39 AM ^
so your saying you can't put a top 6 forward on either the 3rd or 4th lines purely based on that definition? The Wings have always had scorers on the 3rd and forth lines.
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January 20th, 2013 at 9:37 PM ^
According to this post on Winging It In Motown, even though the Griffins scored 11 goals, Gustav Nyquist was -1.
January 20th, 2013 at 8:32 AM ^
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January 20th, 2013 at 10:12 AM ^
Heard that too. There is also an "Adam Clendennig" on Rockford so it also could have been him.
January 20th, 2013 at 10:37 AM ^
The AHL probably does nothing... they got some free publicity!
But seriously, do you suspend entire teams? Or try and figure out the peacemakers from the fighters?
And I agree with the earlier comment -- so much for the theory that pink makes you more pacifist. (Juventus and Palermo agree.)
January 20th, 2013 at 10:49 AM ^
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January 20th, 2013 at 11:53 AM ^
Did I hear it right that the arena PA had something sounding like air raid sirens blaring throughout the fight? (But, no, no one was condoning any fighting there...)
Excellent goalie fight though. Hadn't seen one since the Johnson-DiPietro tangle, which lasted about a second-and-a-half.
January 20th, 2013 at 12:24 PM ^