Speaking of polls, the HockeyFights.com 2007-08 Awards are now open for voting as well. Where else can you vote for “Fight of the Year“, “TKO/KO of the Year“, “Best Team Feud“, or “Best Punching Power“? All those official NHL Awards are for sissies!
The Isles are not very well represented here, in fact they’ve been nominated for “Least Enforcing Team“. But you will find the NYI/NYR Pre-season brawl, and Simon stomping on Rutuu in the “Most Old-School Moment” category. You can browse the categories and videos, but you’ll need a HockeyFights.com forum username and password to vote.
Via HockeyFights.com, here’s video of Krys Barch vs Daniel Carcillo in last night’s DAL/PHX game.
“The only thing this proves is that you can take a punch like a f*cking champ!”
Via HockeyFights.com, here’s ex-Islander Chris Simon putting a hurting on the Flames’ Jim Vandermeer.
Thanks to a tip from Mark Herrmann on the Newsday Islanders blog, here’s video of Sound Tiger Kip Brennan stone cold knocking out T.J Reynolds of the Springfield Falcons last Saturday night during Okposo’s debut.
Brennan leads the Sound Tigers with 205 penalty minutes in 34 games - good enough for second best in the AHL.
[Update] Ooops! Greg Logan’s still on vacay sipping margarita’s somewhere. Yesteday’s blog post was from Mark Herrmann. Thanks to Michael from IslesBlogger.com for the heads up.
Where’s Alexei Yashin when you need him?
James Mirtle has some of the details
“UPDATE ESPN is apparently showing this video, and they reported that 378 penalty minutes were given out on the play.
UPDATE Former NHLers involved in this game include Alexei Morozov, Sergei Zinovjev, Ray Giroux, Petr Cajanek, Denis Arkhipov, Oleg Petrov, Nikita Alexeev and Mika Noronen from Ak-Bars, and Andrei Nikolishin from Traktor.”
Great fight last night between Jarkko Ruutu of Pittsburgh and our least favorite Maple Leaf, Darcy Tucker. Tucker gets pummeled repeatedly. Awesome with a capital “A”.
Thanks to the guys at HockeyBooks for posting this one-sided fight between Clark Gillies and Ed Hospodar of the Rangers. Hospodar goes down like a bag of dirt.
“Gillies gave it to him, boy.”
See, what would be best here is if a giant hole opened up on the ice and no one ever heard from these two clowns again. Our least favorite Maple Leaf and Ranger, Darcy Tucker and Sean Avery, went at it last night. Actually, they almost went at it before the game when Mr. Oh-So-Classy Avery whacked Blake’s shinguards…in warmups. I saw this replay while out last night and was very confused as to who to root for.
Islanders legend Bobby Nystrom’s son Eric is now playing for the Calgary Flames. Like his old man, he’s not afraid to drop the gloves when necessary. Here’s his first NHL fight - nothing special, they exchange right hands and then Nystrom falls on top of Kurtis Foster of the Wild.
Found via HockeyFights.com
