Five for Fighting
19 minutes to go in the Third, Tips just scored an empty netter to move ahead 4-2. Fans go nuts cause it was a hat trick. Seattle is steaming. Ref Warns Ellington & McEwan not to drop gloves as it look slike they are going to. Puck drops and Seattle puts a quick shot on wall, which he blocks and holds....from out of the blue line comes a charging McEwan who blasts wall sending him into the post and causing mayhem. Ellington gets McEwan and just pounds on him. This turns into an all out line Brawl, but the real action is Ellington/McEwan. After handing McEwan his lunch with 5 or 6 clear shots to the head, McEwan goes down. Ref breaks it up, win for Ellington. Ref moves on to break up another fight and McEwan wants more...Ellington obliges. This one is much closer as they both connect on a few shots. Ellington grabs McEwans leg, throwns him to the Ice and gets a big right on him before Ref Jumps on top. Slight edge to Ellington. As Ref skates McEwan off this time, he breaks free and wants more. Again Ellington obliges. They scrum real quick but ref gets in. Ellington knocks both Ref and McEwan to the Ice and nails McEwan once with a right before the Head official jumps in and tears Ellington off. I'd say three wins for Ellington.
This one was too good to miss, so I don;t know too much about the other fights. I do know Wall jumped up and dropped the gloves and was looking for someone, anyone to hit. He looked at bridges and gave him the wave...but Bridges did nothing. The head official skated Wall off the ice as the other fights were going on to make sure nothing happened.
McEwan got 5 for Intent to Injure & 5 for fighting not sure why he was the only one not to get a 10-minute misconduct...perhaps an oversight? Ellington got instigator for going after McEwing after he hit wass, five for fighting and a 10 minute. All 8 other players got 5 for fighting and 10 minute misconducts.
If anyone else saw the other fights, lets recap em?
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