Saturday Co-Features
Saturday night had a heavy dose of gloves off action in the NHL with seven fights on the board, five coming from two games.
The Boston Bruins and Carolina Hurricanes had a rough first period with three fights coming in the first 20 minutes. Getting things started were heavyweights Shawn Thornton and Kevin Westgarth who engaged in a locked-out tactical match with few punches exchanged.
Towards the end of the first period Zdeno Chara and Jay Harrison emerged out of a scrum with the mitts off throwing wild right hands at each other before taking a tumble to the ice.
Less than a minute later Gregory Campbell and Nicolas Blanchard dropped the gloves off of a faceoff and had a heck of a dance. They entered the spin-cycle with each player winging rights, Blanchard doing a great job slipping underneath the bombs from Campbell and Campbell deflecting and slipping a lot of Blanchard's shots.