Fighting Like Girls

Over the weekend there were two pretty embarassing fights in the NHL. And my apolgoies in advance for comparing these fights to how girls fight in the headline. Because I bet most girls have been in better fights than these two.

First off we have Sidney Crosby, or as we shall start referring to him, "Sucker Punch Sidney." Sucker punching guys seems to be Crosby's thing as of late. First we had the crotch punching incident, and now this "fight" against Brett McLean of the Florida Panthers.

After the game, McLean's teammate Nick Boynton said what we're all thinking...

"That was just embarrassing. I can understand a little bit what he was trying to do, but that's a not a very professional move. You ask a guy to fight. You don't jump a guy when his head is down taking a faceoff. That's pretty immature and childish. He's just, whatever. He's not happy with the way things are going and he was trying to get his team going. But there's no need for that.''

Now if you think that fight was pretty pathetic, hold on to your hats because here comes this gem from Alexander Semin of the Washington Capitals.

Some are comparing this fight to a bongo player banging away on the drums, while others think it's a lot like Ralphie fighting Scut Farkas from A Christmas Story. If you ask me, it looks like Semin applied the ol' coming at you like a spider monkey routine.

Fight Of The Year?

Earlier today I wrote about a possible goal of the year candidate by Alex Ovechkin, and now we have ourselves a fight of the year candidate. You know what, this fight is so good I'm just going to go ahead and call it the fight of the year right now. Just because I don't want any of the guys involved in the fight to get angry at me for not calling it fight of the year and then coming after me. Always have to look out for number one.

The donnybrook in question took place back on December 19th between Jeremy Yablonski of the Binghamton Senators, and Dan "Nasty" Mirasty of the Syracuse Crunch. What a cool nickname, Nasty. Much better than mine, "The Cookie Monster." What can I say, I do like to eat cookies.

These two warriors put on one great fight, dropping the mits at centre ice and furiously re-arranging each other's face for a solid minute.

"Nasty" Mirasty wins in the nickname department, and I think you have to give him props for showing some courage too. I don't know if Mirasty knew what he was getting himself into, as while digging around and doing some research, I found this video of Yablonski fighting for an MMA promotion named XFS. Which I'm going to assume stands for Xtreme Fighting Something-or-other.

The next time you consider who some of the toughest guys in the hockey world are, Dan "Nasty" Mirasty should immediately take the crown because he didn't just fight another hockey goon. He fought a hockey goon who doubles as an MMA fighter. I'd like to see Derek Boogaard do that. Seriously I would. Can somebody set up a Derek Boogaard vs. Chuck Liddell fight? I would definitely accept free tickets to see that.

On The Fritz

During Tuesday's Islanders/Flyers game, Riley Cote and Mitch Fritz dropped the gloves and proceeded to have themselves one hell of a heavyweight fight.

It started off with a bunch of solid quick shots which cut both guys open, but then turned into what looks like one of those weird moments in boxing when the fighters appear to just be hugging each other and making plans to hook up for dinner after the bout. Either way this was a good fight, and once they were split up both Fritz and Cote looked as if they had just come from the set of a horror movie.

If only we could get Mitch Fritz to battle it out with Cal Clutterbuck of the Minnesota Wild to determine who has the funnest name in hockey to say. Now that would be a fight I would pay $54.99 to watch on pay-per-view.

Hockey Fight Night

I think a few NHLers had a little too much spiked pumpkin juice and were especially ticked off on Thursday night.

There were three fights in particular which all deserve your rage filled attention. And here they are in all their face rearranging glory...

Eric Boulton (Atlanta Thrashers) vs. Colton Orr (New York Rangers)


Tim Gleason (Carolina Hurricanes) vs. Cam Janssen (St. Louis Blues)


Derek Dorsett (Columbus Blue Jackets) vs. Darcy Tucker (Colorado Avalanche) - Make sure you listen to the awesome commentary on this one. If this whole hockey thing doesn't work out, that commentator has a future as an announcer in the WWE.

Let's Get Ready To Rumble!

If a shark actually fought a penguin, I think it's safe to say the shark would win. And hey what do you know, during Tuesday night's Penguins vs. Sharks game, there was one hell of a fight between Eric Godard of the Pens and veteran tough guy Jody Shelley of the Sharks.

And just like out in the wild, the Shark wins this battle as well.