David Backes vs Keith Ballard

Apr 3, 2007 3pd 07:36

2006-2007 Regular Season

Date / Time	Away / Home Team	Away / Home Player
Apr 3, 2007	St. Louis Blues	David Backes
3pd 07:36	Phoenix Coyotes	Keith Ballard
Comments: Backes plays the puck into the Coyotes' zone and exchanges shoves with Ballard until the two decide to drop the gloves near the end boards. They grab ahold of each other and Backes slams his helmet down to the ice. Ballard unstraps his and Backes throws two rights that knock Ballard's helmet off anyway. Ballard throws a right and then gets his left hand up in Backes' face before throwing another right. Ballard switches hands and throws two lefts with Backes coming back with two rights while they are in-tight. They grapple for a moment and Ballard gets in a left just as Backes throws a right cross. Ballard throws a short left and Backes switches to the left as well, throwing two of his own. They then spin to the ice and the linesmen are there to intervene and quickly break things up.

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Results

Draw		47.6%
Keith Ballard		47.6%
David Backes		4.9%
From 82 votes with an average rating of 4.2

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User Reviews

Posted by shrk33 on Apr 9, 2007 at 1:47 AM agree

I think Ballard one this fight, can't say that too often.

Posted by HockeyFanMN on Apr 4, 2007 at 10:22 PM agree

DRAW...
Good fight though.

Posted by jano on Apr 5, 2007 at 11:12 AM agree

Ballard is class. Decent middleweight as well. Good on Backes to stand up for himself. Draw.

Posted by mikebflorida on Apr 6, 2007 at 10:56 AM agree

Not who'd you expect but it seemed from the video, it had been brewing. Those hip checks are evil but Backes didn't do anything to punish Ballard, Ballard landed a couple and got the takedown. Pretty crappy fight.

Posted by MSUfaninMO on Apr 4, 2007 at 7:40 PM agree

pretty boring fight. a few shots might have landed for each fighter. DRAW

Posted by ohsnap on Apr 4, 2007 at 9:20 PM agree

Backes threw his own helmet off! I love this guy! Not the greatest fight but OK. Bummer he didn't win.

Posted by eagles3600 on Apr 7, 2007 at 12:29 PM agree

lame

Posted by CLUB34 on Apr 5, 2007 at 10:56 AM agree

I always like it when two guys who don't normally fight decide to throw down but it rarely amounts to much. This was a draw. Period. Neither one of those guys can say in the locker room, "He'll think twice about fighting me next time.". Two lower tier middleweights in a bout that was worthy of a commercial break. But, hey, at least they were legitimately mad at each other.

Posted by lemu66 on Apr 4, 2007 at 3:24 PM agree

pretty lame, but i have to vote for the spring lake park boy.

Posted by MNHockey21 on Apr 4, 2007 at 7:05 PM agree

Two MN boys! Nice! Played against Backes in high school. Ballard is a class act. Have to root for the Gold and Maroon though.

Posted by fang11 on Apr 4, 2007 at 6:40 PM agree

this goes back even farther than college. back to their USHL days. Backes played for Lincoln and Ballard played for Omaha. Both great teams while those guys were there and close to each other to fuel the rivalry.

Posted by kobyboogey on Apr 4, 2007 at 11:28 AM agree

This goes back to their days playing against each other in the U of Minnesota/ Minnesota State Mankato rivalry in college.

It's pretty close to call, i'll give it a draw.

Posted by Boogeybacker on Apr 4, 2007 at 5:39 PM agree

ballard got him but was'nt a slugfest. good job on both loseing the helmets at the same time though.

Posted by Looters23 on Apr 4, 2007 at 11:46 AM agree

not a bad tilt for Backes considering it was the first of his career. they both got a few decent shots in, I give it a draw.

Posted by mailman1194 on Apr 5, 2007 at 10:00 AM agree

Whether the fight was good or bad, it's nice to see the two gentlemen take off their helmits/visors and let their fists do the damage. Total respect for the game and each other. For me, that puts more adrenaline into the fight. These two put a big distance between themselves and those other P***IES, like "Doug" Murray, Lat- whatever his f***en name is from Montreal, etc. This is the way you do it! Ballard landed more. Win Ballard

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