Senators-Flyers Fight Night II

Nearly 7 years ago, the Ottawa Senators and Philadelphia Flyers engaged in one of the most famous brawls in recent hockey history. The record setting 419 penalty minutes from that game is a record that still holds today. The Flyers and Senators did not get close to that number, but there were still over 126 penalty minutes, including 80 in the span of a second as the NHL's most random fighting rivalry was at once more time in the 3rd period of the Flyers 6-2 beating of the Ottawa Senators. Same teams. Same arena. Same entertainment value.

Oh, feel free to ignore the awful and clueless commentary Ottawa Senators announcers.

Fight #1



I have no idea what Denis Potvin was smoking but that was a clean hit by Giroux on Jesse Winchester. The only "cheap shot" in this video is Chris Neil jumping on top of Giroux afterwards. But I digress, and as you'll see, Chris Neil will owe up to his cheap shot later on.

Fight #2



And now Fight #3, 1 second after the Foligno-Giroux fight, comes the massive line brawl.



Sean O'Donnell has a unique way of turtleing.

What the Ottawa announcers are referring to here is Shelley turning down a fight with Matt Carkner who had wanted to fight Shelley before this incident but after the Giroux hit on Winchester, but Shelley, likely remembering Chris Neil jumping Giroux, saved his fists for Neil. Kind of a bitch move by Shelley because Neil is smaller, but at the same time, he was standing up for his teammate, so it goes both ways. One more thing about the Sens announcers: Did they have any idea what was going on in that last fight? Any? At all?

Even though it was no where close to the 419 penalty minutes of 2004 (and for the record, I don't think that record will ever go down), 126 is pretty impressive. And the Flyers came out on top in the fights and in the game, so all in all, a good night of hockey from the Wells Fargo Center.