Washington at Boston 1/27/09

[Juha82]

Boring fight mostly but Brashear showed his goodness at last in the end of the fight.
He got away some strong punches with good result.
He KD's Bitz.
CLEAR WIN D.Brashear.

[MattBurger]

I was very surprised to see Bitz drop the gloves with Brashear for his first NHL fight. When it happened, the first thing that crossed my mind was "oh God, Bitz is going to get killed". What ended up occuring was a boring fight with a lot of noogies, but at least Bitz was able to control Brash for most of the scrap.

Edge Brash for "out-noogying" Bitz at the end.

[caps87]

i didnt know much about bitz, so i figured hed get killed. but he hung in there and kept brash from really getting going.

win to a seemingly disinterested brash in a boring fight

[Sugden Flu]

Props to Byron Bitz for getting his 1st NHL fight out of the way. He didn't pick a slouch to go with, thats for sure. Edge Brash.

[shaud19]

I'll give it a draw...

[Bruins29]

I was very surprised to see Bitz take on Brashear for a few reasons:

1. 3rd period of a tie game
2. Bitz has never fought at the NHL level
3. Brashear is a bad,bad man

I thought Bitz did well though. He did a good job grappling for position and even landed a few punches. Brashear did overpower him at the end of the fight though and landed some lefts to Bitz's head. Win to Brashear in a close fight.

[blackngold]

Originally Posted by Hutch

He's been up for 4 or 5 games now. All the AHL guys (sobotka, hunwick, st. pierre) got sent back down during the ASB break except for Bitz.

Hunwick's still up. They like him too much to send him down. With Ference back, he played wing on the 4th line last night.

[clydefrog]

Originally Posted by Juha82

Boring fight mostly but Brashear showed his goodness at last in the end of the fight.
He got away some strong punches with good result.
He KD's Bitz.
CLEAR WIN D.Brashear.

brashear doesnt have any "goodness"...he holds on for 2 min..hugs you to death....and while the other guy is actuallt triying to fight...then he noogies people in the back on the helmet....then when other guy gets free wrestle him down..i saw Bitz trying to throw punches while huggy bear just held on as usual..he is worst "goodness" fighter in the league..

[WBC8]

Honestly I think Brashear held off on purpose....I htink he was surprised Bitz took the invite, then when he saw Bitz was not going to open up he just held on then got the win at the end...Brashear fought very calmly, knowing he was in no danger whatsoever....didn't want to show him up too bad IMO.

[caps87]

Originally Posted by clydefrog

brashear doesnt have any "goodness"...he holds on for 2 min..hugs you to death....and while the other guy is actuallt triying to fight...then he noogies people in the back on the helmet....then when other guy gets free wrestle him down..i saw Bitz trying to throw punches while huggy bear just held on as usual..he is worst "goodness" fighter in the league..

bitz got in tight too and threw some short punches. he was smart to get in tight. brashear wasnt very interested, but got off some punches at the end. brashear gets the narrow win, guessing that bitz fell on the last punch instead of being knocked down

[BlackgoldBears]

Originally Posted by caps87

bitz got in tight too and threw some short punches. he was smart to get in tight. brashear wasnt very interested, but got off some punches at the end. brashear gets the narrow win, guessing that bitz fell on the last punch instead of being knocked down

Bitz was probably just sick of getting hit in the back of the head, so he went down to let the ref's jump in.

[canuckfan]

I guess if you want to give points for shots to the back of the mellon, then Brashear takes this scrap. Not a very good fight though, but Bitz looked huge compared to Brash - I'm surprised he's "only" 6'4 220 lbs. Give the kid credit for dropping them with one of the best though.

But man - what a beauty goal by Thornton - highlite of the night right there...

[Chainsaw Churla]

Originally Posted by clydefrog

brashear doesnt have any "goodness"...he holds on for 2 min..hugs you to death....and while the other guy is actuallt triying to fight...then he noogies people in the back on the helmet....then when other guy gets free wrestle him down..i saw Bitz trying to throw punches while huggy bear just held on as usual..he is worst "goodness" fighter in the league..

You're probably one of the least knowledgeable posters on this site. Take a seat.

[bigjohnson]

I said win, then draw, and now say edge to Brashear

[RetardedChimp]

Originally Posted by WBC8

Honestly I think Brashear held off on purpose....I htink he was surprised Bitz took the invite, then when he saw Bitz was not going to open up he just held on then got the win at the end...Brashear fought very calmly, knowing he was in no danger whatsoever....didn't want to show him up too bad IMO.

You might be right, it would explain his lack of intensity, but if that is the case I would be even more disappointed.

Good for giving the new guy a shot, but f*cking punish him. Make him NOT want to fight you again. Brash better sucker punch someone next game.