AHL'er Bobby Robins Fighting More than Just Odds

[chilly666]

The gloves flew off and it was on. In his first shift with the Providence Bruins in Portland, Maine, Bobby Robins was fighting the player he used to fashion himself after, Ryan Hollweg.

Hollweg threw some left hooks and Robins retorted with some rights until he had his opponent on his knees for a brief moment. The two continued to spin as the refs stepped in to pull them apart and Robins skated off to the penalty box with a look of fury on his face.

But outside the Providence Bruins locker room following a Thursday morning practice, Robins is anything but furious. Still dressed in full gear, Robins explains the pivotal moment on the ice in a soft-spoken voice.

“It’s like everything just came together at that moment and that was the first shift and it was just one of those things,” he said. “It happened but I think I have prepared myself for that moment over the last couple years. The moment presented itself and I acted accordingly through preparation.”

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“I knew that if I wanted to play in the American League and in the NHL, that’s a facet of my game that needed to be there,” Robins said. “I wanted to be an[ intimidating power forward and a powerful forechecker and a heavy hitter. If you take those and you don’t add that element that you can also fight, you’re missing a piece to the puzzle.”

True, if you can score and fight you're going to aggravate the other team.

“It’s not that I’m going out there and looking for fights, but a lot of the time it’s after a big hit or if you’re really getting under your opponent’s skin, that means you’re doing something right,” he said with a smile.

He has a high hockey IQ. Not fighting for the heck of it, for a REASON

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Is he native american?