Malcolm MacMillan vs Myles Stoesz

Very hard to judge a fight when a linesman is sandwiched between 2 players. Either way the real loser was the linesman...I think he got popped a few times when all 3 fell to the ice.

(What I posted in the 10/28/07 ECHL Fight thread)

Oh geez!!! It was a brutal game the whole time. We figured it was just a matter of time before a big fight broke out. The first one between Stamoulis & MacMillan was quick but looked painful (for Stamoulis ). There appeared to be a lot of trash talk between everybody and lots of sneaky stuff going on.

Once we got the 5th goal it was just a matter of time. It was getting to the point that the linesmen and ref were always watching the lines change as there was a lot of pushing and shoving in front of the benches.

Someone shoved Stoesz and he turned around and went after the first guy he could get too (Stefanishion) and got in his face. The linesman was in the process of separating them when another guy, LaLonde I believe, leaned over from the bench and punched Stoesz in the side of the head.

Stoesz then went after LaLonde and LaLonde got the snot pounded out of him (if it was him in fact...there was a lot of other stuff going on on the outskirts). Again the linesman tried to get between them when I have to assume MacMillan went after Stoesz. They only got a couple of punches in until the linesman pretty much toppled over onto Stoesz knocking him down.

However, Stoesz had MacMillan by the shirt and pulled him on top of the linesman. MacMillan got in one or two cheap shots but I think the linesman was the real loser in that last scuffle.

Then we had to wait forever while they tried to figure out the penalties. The sucky part is during the game they announced that Stoesz got one game misconduct. On the way home on the radio, he suddenly had 2 of them. I get home and check the box score and now he has 3 of them. Oh well.