Tuomo Ruutu vs Garnet Exelby

Oct 18, 2003 3pd 11:09

Date / Time	Away / Home Team	Away / Home Player
Oct 18, 2003	Chicago Blackhawks	Tuomo Ruutu
3pd 11:09	Atlanta Thrashers	Garnet Exelby
Comments: By this time, the game had been decided, so the Hawks have had it. As Chicago is breaking out, Kovalchuk holds up Bell by grabbing his stick. Bell slashes aKovalchuk, who tries to skate to the bench. Bell takes after him, spearing him in the chest, and following that up with a pretty good crosscheck to the head. Not surprisingly, everyone jumps into the fray. Cowan grabs a hold of Calder and throws two short punches with the left hand. Bell sees this and tries to save Calder, but a linesman has a hold of Bell, who's livid. Another Hawk, Vorobiev, tries to save Calder, but Randy Robitaille grabs him. Luckily, Cowan shows some restraint against Calder, and stops throwing, allowing the linesmen to jump in. During all this, Exelby drops his gloves and goes after Ruutuu and starts throwing left hands. Ruutuu seems to want no part of it, and tries to tie up Exelby. As the linesmen are breaking up Cowan and Calder, Ruutuu manages to throw some weak right hands at Exelby before falling to the ice. Other Penalties: Exelby received an instigator, misconduct and game misconduct; Mark Bell a roughing; Ilya Kovalchuk received an obstruction holding.