An old fashioned donnybrook broke out in the Southern Professional Hockey League.
There's still no professional hockey to watch in North America, but the minor league teams scattered across the country are soldiering on, providing a few well-placed die-hards with entertainment while the rest of us grumble and bitch about Gary Bettman. One particular recent game in the Southern Professional Hockey League (which exists!) featured a bench-clearing slobberknocker worthy of the NHL, resulting in 129 combined penalty minutes for fighting, throwing equipment AND spearing. Here's a frame-by-frame breakdown of the brouhaha.
It all starts late in the third period of a 3-2 game between the Mississippi Surge (in blue), and the Huntsville Havoc (in white).
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After the referees let some spearing go unpenalized, the players engage in vigilante justice. No. 44 Corey Fulton is engaged, and pushes a Surge player into the wall...and beyond.
Fulton has made a grave tactical error. He's pushed a Surge player into the Surge bench, and he's soon surrounded by Surge, presumably getting punched in the face a lot.
