Friday night fights - KHL style

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Russian hockey’s top grudge match – the Avangard Omsk vs. Vityaz Chekhov encounter – once again lived up to its heavyweight hype.
Trouble has followed these teams around since the tragic death of an Avangard player at a game in Chekhov two seasons ago.
Last January a clash between the two was abandoned within five minutes after a mass brawl resulted in neither side having sufficient players to continue the game.
And earlier this season the teams shared a total of 174 penalty minutes as Avangard won 4-2 in Podmoskovye.

Friday fight
The sides took to the ice once again on Friday afternoon in Siberia, and within six seconds the gloves were coming off.
A mass brawl started almost with the first face-off, and resulted in a string of penalties called against two home players and five visiting Vityaz men.
Notoriously pugnacious Canadian Darcy Verot led the way, earning a five minute fighting penalty and a 10 minute misconduct rap.
And team-mate Joshua Gratton was given 25 minutes to cool his heels after a gross misconduct call.

The rest of Vityaz’s starting quintet, Ivan Larin, Denis Sergeyev and Sergei Belokon each received double minor penalties for roughing. Marek Svatos and Alexei Bondarev of Avangard were each handed minors for the same offence.
During the extended powerplay Avangard opened up a two-goal lead, but early in the second period the hosts found themselves shorthanded and allowed Chris Simon to pull one back for the visitors before Sergeyev atoned for his earlier misdemeanours by equalising. But the hosts prevailed with a late goal from Alexander Perezhogin to win 3-2.

 

[BostonAJ]

Jesus. Looks like Russia isn't familiar with The Code.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

LOL @ Darcy Verot.

In 2007-08 he had 511 PIMs in 43 games in the K.

Awesome.

 

[BOSSMANPC]

LOL, Old time hockey folks, I think I saw Reggie Dunlop in that clip.

 

[buffhockey]

With that much hatred, wonder how the pregame skating was..

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

Right off the bat I've identified one thing that went wrong...one team was wearing Redwings jerseys and the other was wearing Avs jerseys. Bad things tend to happen when you mix the two.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

On a more serious note, I wonder how the other 353.3 seconds of the game went.

 

[SLY]

Lol

 

[Darkstone42]

There were three guys jumped unexpectedly, three guys punched while they were down (two of whom went down because they were jumped unexpectedly), a goalie randomly run over, and at least one occurrence of a third man in. That's not a hockey fight, that's a street fight.

 

[KennyBanyeah]

On a more serious note, I wonder how the other 353.3 seconds of the game went.

I know the KHL is cheap but do they REALLY play 6 minute games over there... :p

 

[juliansteed]

Lots of former NHLers involved in this.

The article seems to suggest that this bad blood is somehow related the death of the player a couple years ago. Anyone have any information on that?

 

[Automattic]

Did it have something to do with the heart attack on the bench? I have no clue.


What a bunch of fucking bitches. I woud seriously wreck every single one of the players that jumped somebody from behind. At the same time. Preferably off the ice. Not because I couldn't do it on the ice, but because those are the rules they wish to play by.

 

[Forty_Sixand2]

Gay Gay Gay.


Old time hockey that I hope NEVER EVER comes back......just stupid....

 

[puckhead]

I thought Russians were as a rule pretty damned tough?
every one of those dudes in black was a huge pussy.
wtf was up with that one dude standing around afraid to drop
his stick while his teammate was getting a beatdown. weak.

 

[Winged_Wheel88]

I know the KHL is cheap but do they REALLY play 6 minute games over there... :p

I just negged myself.

 

[Slimpikins]

I like how the goalie dropped like a soccer player then proceded to roll around on the ground like he had been shot.