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Ranking the NHL's fighters
If you haven't been stopping by stats man Gabe Desjardins's pad lately, you'd be well-served to do so. He's banging out some good stuff over there. The latest is a system of ranking fighters, one that...
The Role of a Fighter: Aaron Downey
I'd called him about something else — just a quick question, really — but he had a few things to say and I didn't mind listening in. Aaron Downey's nothing if not a personable guy. Mos...
Artyukhin pummels Peltonen
I got a big chuckle out of this one: 254-pound behemoth Evgeni Artyukhin for some reason got into a scrap with Ville Peltonen on Saturday. The Lightning forward outweighs the little Finn by about 75 p...
Scary Gary drops the gloves
I'm not sure what's going on with the old buggers fighting players a decade or more their junior, but Gary Roberts dropped the gloves yesterday against Bruins defenceman Mark Stuart — who at age...
Lemieux gets beat up
Theo Peckham gives Claude Lemieux, 22 years his elder, a pretty sound mini-thrashing. This was Lemieux's first "fight" since Oct. 01, 2002, when he scrapped with Jarkko Ruutu in the preseason. I t...
Cracking down on staged fights
"I'm not advocating elimination of their jobs, I'm talking about the question of safety. If those guys can hold a roster spot and skate on a fourth line and play and engage in fights which arise f...
New OHL rule will curtail fighting
Photo: Ottawa 67s Fan Blog The Ontario Hockey League has instituted a game misconduct and an automatic one-game suspension for players who remove their helmets or undo their chinstraps before or...
A nation of fighters
People like to watch other people fight. Not all people, and not in all circumstances. But the history of humankind would suggest that the old schoolyard instinct is powerful, and nearly impossib...
Bruins cruise to top of standings
It was a pretty wild one in Boston last night, where the Bruins ran the Habs out of the rink with four unanswered goals to start the game. In terms of projected standings, Boston is now the first-...
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