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A comment by Rink Reader Pete got me thinking (dangerous, I know). Pete basically asserts that when Donald Brashear drops the gloves it ends up giving the opposing team a boost because, as The...

Many of you, no doubt, saw Saturday night's fight between Pittsburgh's Robert Petrovicky and Toronto's Kris Newbury (in case you didn't, the video is below). The good news is that Newbury "has a...

Dallas Stars agitator extraordinaire Matthew Barnaby hasn't played a game in the NHL since January 9 when he was concussed in a fight with Phoenix's Josh Gratton. The blurred vision he experienced...

While by no means the best fight clip out there, this one will be of particular interest to Caps fans starting at around the one-minute mark (and to awful uniform fans from the get-go): Thanks to c...

Yesterday's post on fighting in the NHL brought a nearly-unprecedented amount of traffic and discussion to this little ol' blog (combine that with a link from the mighty Deadspin on the J...

By now you've no doubt seen the video of Colton Orr likely ending Todd Fedoruk's NHL career with a haymaker to the left side of his recently-reconstructed face. It was an awful moment for any...

Hat tip to hockeyfights.com for pointing out that Donald Brashear fought not one but both Brookbank boys this weekend, as he beat down the Hurricanes' Wade on Saturday evening and the Devils' S...

Something about playing an old Patrick Division rival in the playoffs just feels right.This will be the fourth time the Caps and Flyers have faced off in the postseason, with the Caps winning a...

We'll have to wait until June 12 to see who the NHL's most gentlemanly player is (here are the über-manly nominees), but if you're more a fan of the type of guys who are more likely to be elected...

The Carolina Hurricanes pulled off one of those goofy pick-for-rights trades today and acquired the pesky Darcy Hordichuk from Nashville in exchange for a fifth-round pick in next year's draft.As B...