Chris Neil vs Aaron Downey

Oct 14, 2006 1pd 20:00

2006-2007 Regular Season

Date / Time	Away / Home Team	Away / Home Player
Oct 14, 2006	Ottawa Senators	Chris Neil
1pd 20:00	Montreal Canadiens	Aaron Downey
A late hit after the whistle causes a giant scrum in the corner. Neil and Steve Begin drop the gloves and come out of the crowd throwing punches at each other. Downey skates over and grabs Neil. A linesmen comes over and grabs Begin off of Neil, then skates over to Downey and tries to separate him from Neil. Neil throws a left and one of the referees skate over to try and pry them apart as well. Neil screams at him and after a moment they decide to let the two go. They skate further down ice and begin a battle that sees both fighters landing numerous shots, both lefts, rights, and uppercuts. They separate at one point only to continue throwing punches boxing-style before the referees finally step in and end the fight. Other Penalties: Downey received a charging and misconduct; Andrej Meszaros a roughing and misconduct.

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Results

Aaron Downey		63.3%
Draw		27.9%
Chris Neil		8.8%
From 283 votes with an average rating of 7.5

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User Reviews

Posted by Finned Senator on Feb 28, 2007 at 6:05 PM agree

Somewhat of a hug-fest for a while, Neil definitely got some good lefts off but Downey didn't do too poorly either. I call it a draw.

Posted by Zenith99 on Feb 24, 2007 at 11:30 AM agree

Pretty even fight, didnt notice any major bombs but I will concede that Neil took a little more punishment. However, it was really far more closer than what the votes are

Posted by chad420 on Jun 8, 2010 at 5:16 PM agree

Thanks for putting more fights on...ive had withdrawals.....draw...good duration

Posted by Juha82 on Aug 30, 2007 at 11:44 AM agree

They landed about same amount of punches.
Downey gets the best punch of the fight.
It was even at the start to the end.
A draw.

Posted by blazers76 on Sep 5, 2009 at 8:45 PM agree

How many guys does Neil have to take on.

Posted by trpaulson on Oct 21, 2007 at 3:20 PM agree

Draw. Not a bad scrap. Nice to see Neil fight and not turtle or cheap shot.

Posted by Happy2 on Jan 18, 2009 at 11:16 PM agree

Good work from AAron.

Posted by Viper207 on Jun 12, 2010 at 2:09 AM agree

Whew, that was a fun one! The win goes to Downey for the better shots.

Posted by Walt on Jun 7, 2010 at 1:42 PM agree

I love these 6' 210 guys. They seem to have great strength, balance and ferocity. It's hard to believe but Downey and Neil were about the size of guys like Churla/Nilan/Byers etc. back in the day.

Give me a Rypien/Asham fight any day over a Boogaard/Parros borefest.

It would have been fun to watch Downey and Thornton in one of their old battles in the AHL.

Posted by tijodano on Apr 28, 2007 at 11:04 AM agree

Aaron downey takes a late hit on neil and the brawl happens downey kicks the ass of neil

I HOPE DOWNEY WILL BE BACK IN THE NHL

HE'S A TRUE WARRIOR AND HES NOT SCARED TO GO FIGHT BRASHEAR EVEN IF HE KNOWS HE WILL GET BEAT

Posted by ebmartini on Feb 14, 2008 at 12:50 PM agree

I love Downey's fighting style! But this one was pretty close.

Posted by opvsd on Apr 16, 2007 at 2:35 AM agree

neil is a *****

Posted by rmc on Apr 3, 2007 at 7:47 PM agree

how many shots did neil take in the face while he was tied up in the corner? He already had half a fight by the time this one got started...

Posted by Ryanco on Apr 5, 2007 at 2:51 PM agree

Neil had to put up with the other 3-4 people beating him while going after downy neil was getting tired before it even started

Posted by SoCal360 on Apr 26, 2007 at 5:33 PM agree

good job for the zebras to let the two dudes go...they should do that more...let the boys tire themselves out and give the fans something to watch