Eric Cairns vs Dale Purinton

Feb 19, 2004 3pd 16:06

2003-2004 Regular Season

Date / Time	Away / Home Team	Away / Home Player
Feb 19, 2004	New York Islanders	Eric Cairns
3pd 16:06	New York Rangers	Dale Purinton
Comments: Purinton and Cairns are in the crease. Cairns is turned and Purinton drops the gloves and cracks Cairns with a big punch just as Cairns is getting his gloves off. Purinton keeps punching as Papineau jumps in, then Snow, then everyone. Cairns takes a moment, regains composure, the crowd gets off of him and he gets up and goes after Purinton while both are being held by the linesmen. Cairns is trying to get at Purinton while Purinton is covering up. Cairns gets some punches in, but nothing much is getting through. While Papineau was really third man in, Snow's tossed for being "third" man in for some reason. Other Penalties: Purinton received an instigator, misconduct and game misconduct; Garth Snow a game misconduct.

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Results

Dale Purinton		58.5%
Draw		31.7%
Eric Cairns		9.8%
From 41 votes with an average rating of 4.3

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Posted by shane0mack on Sep 09, 2007 at 11:31 PM agree

I understand that Cairns can't win because he didn't throw a punch - but he didn't get a chance to! How can you label Purinton the winner when he throws a cheapshot like that.