Friday Fights: It Doesn't Get Better Than A Righty vs Lefty Beating The Absolute Brakes Off Of Each Other In The NHL
Hockey fights are kind of like pizza. All hockey fights are great. Even a bad hockey fight is better than no hockey fight. But when you get two guys going up against each other who really know what they are doing, there are times it can end up pretty uneventful. It ends up being more of a grapple session than anything, because each guy uses their left hand to grab onto their opponent's right arm, and it neutralizes the whole thing.
There aren't a ton of lefty fighters out there, but there's a reason why lefties are some of the biggest nightmares for guys to go up against. Enforcers like Donald Brashear, Georges Laraque, and Tie Domi. Because when your right is matched up against their left, there is no grabbing. At that point, it's just two tough bastards throwing as heavy as they possibly can trying to cave in the other's skull. Which is exactly what we got last night in Columbus between Mathieu Olivier and Scott Sabourin.
Great tilt right there. Both guys coming away with a little less blood than they went into the fight with. Both guys got their opportunity to just start throwing bombs. That was a hockey fight. That's what these guys are out there to do. To find the biggest, baddest dude on the other team and just start pounding away. Imagine not being a hockey fan. Imagine watching that and coming away with the thought that hockey just isn't entertaining. I know we're like 10 years past the "please like my sport" stage of being a hockey fan. But sometimes it still blows my mind.
And while we're talking about fights from last night in the NHL, let's give a quick shoutout to Alex DeBrincat. 40-goal scorer and not afraid to mix it up with Sam Bennett last night, who is notoriously one of the biggest dirtballs in hockey.
The Red Wings are going to need a new captain, and this fight right here should put Alex DeBrincat's name firmly at the top of the list. With that being said…Florida did manage to score 4 unanswered goals last night to end up winning the game 5-4. So I guess the boys on the Detroit bench weren't nearly as fired up about that DeBrincat fight as they should have been.
