Eric Cairns

2003-2004 Regular Season Fight Card

Position: D
Birthdate: Jun 27, 1974
From: Oakville, ON; Canada

Height: 6' 6"
Weight: 230lbs

NHL Fights: 17

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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Oct 11, 2003	3pd 13:46	NYI	@ BUF	Andrew Peters
Long squareoff. They finally grab a hold of each other and they're trying to get the arms free. Cairns wants to throw big rights, while Peters is throwing short jabs. Cairns can't get much going, while Peters is getting his jabs in. It's more apparent when Peters gets Cairns up against the boards and pinned while landing some more jabs. Cairns finally gets off the boards, throws a couple that miss, goes to wind up and Peters falls, bringing Eric down with him. Cairns throws a shot while down.
Voted winner: Andrew Peters (78.6%) - Voted rating: 5.8
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Oct 25, 2003	1pd 14:29	@ NYI	PIT	Kelly Buchberger
After a squareoff, Buchberger started throwing wild punches while Cairns was catching his balance. Cairns might have landed a decent uppercut, then he got Kelly's jersey up over his head and landed a couple of overhand rights to the back of Kelly's head, but Buchy kept coming while the linesmen came in.
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Oct 25, 2003	2pd 06:16	@ NYI	PIT	Steve McKenna
Cairns has words with Lemieux and McKenna comes over. They meet behind the net, along boards and are immediately tied up. Cairns has Mckenna in a headlock and is talking to the linesmen the whole time. Could be about the visor McKenna currently is sporting. They finally start swinging, McKenna a right and Cairns a left or two. Cairns goes to the right and now both guys are throwing right hands with some intent. They both land a couple of rights, and McKenna gets Cairns' jersey up. Linesmen come right in. McKenna did receive the unsportsmanlike conduct for instigating with a visor. Other Penalties: McKenna received an instigator, unsportsmanlike conduct and misconduct.
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Nov 11, 2003	2pd 13:24	NYI	@ PHI	Todd Fedoruk
These two have a good square off behind the play. As they come together, Fedoruk nails Cairns with a hard left on the chin, dropping him. The linesmen hestitate to get in, and Fedoruk lets Cairns back up to continue. They each throw an overhand right, and then Cairns gets his right arm out of his sleeve. Cairns lands a hard right cross, square on Fedoruk's cheek, causing Todd to grab on. Cairns throws a few more from underneath before he lets up and the two tumble to the ice. It was later revealed that Fedoruk had his orbital bone broken in the fight.
Voted winner: Eric Cairns (55.0%) - Voted rating: 6.5
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Nov 15, 2003	2pd 03:12	NYI	@ NAS	Jim McKenzie
Both fighters squareoff at center ice. They each start off with several short rights to the forehead and helmet. Cairns pops McKenzie's helmet off with one of the punches. Neither fighter looks to land anything heavy, but Cairns threw several more and looked like he controlled the short, but lively fight. They each seemed to tire out pretty quickly.
Voted winner: Draw (56.3%) - Voted rating: 5.4
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Dec 02, 2003	1pd 10:32	@ NYI	WAS	Stephen Peat
They have a nice square off at center ice and Peat and Cairns start to trade 'em. Peat lands some nice lefts and it looked as though Cairns might go down, but he takes those shots and returns some moster rights towards while getting Peat's sweater over his head as Cairns punches him to the ice.
Voted winner: Eric Cairns (71.8%) - Voted rating: 7.7
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Dec 04, 2003	1pd 12:08	@ NYI	NYR	Richard Scott
They are skating into the Rangers zone and Scott drops them first. Cairns wants a squareoff, but Scott just charges after Cairns. They start throwing good hard rights, both knocking off each other's helmet. It was Cairns early, Scott in the middle, and Cairns again late. They both just fired rights during the whole fight. At the very end, Cairns popped Scott with a right that appeared to hit flush. Scott seemed a bit dazed after it and did not return.
Voted winner: Eric Cairns (100.0%) - Voted rating: 7.3
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Dec 13, 2003	3pd 19:34	@ NYI	ATL	Jeff Cowan
Cowan has some words for Kvasha, who was given a goaltender interference penalty for knocking over Nurminen. Cairns comes in to say hello and it's broken up. It's now 3 on 3 and these two are still out there for the faceoff, so you know it's coming. The puck drops, and they squareoff. It looks even, some ok shots by both. Cowan gets in a couple of shots as Cairns also lands some ok ones. Cairns is trying to get his right hand out of his sleeve. He does, and throws two uppercuts. Cowan's already bent over, and it appears the uppercuts landed on the top of Cowan's head, and Cowan goes down.
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Jan 03, 2004	1pd 10:17	NYI	@ BOS	Doug Doull
Earlier they received coincidental roughings at the time, but didn't go when they got out of the box because another penalty was taken within that time putting Boston on the power play. They meet behind the net finally and drop the gloves and squareoff. They grab on and Cairns is firing rights at will, but nothing devastating. Doull gets in maybe one or two punches out of the few that he threw. Cairns has him bent over a couple of times, but doesn't take advantage really. Doull throws a few more as the linesmen come in as Cairns says something to him.
Voted winner: Eric Cairns (100.0%) - Voted rating: 6.3
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Feb 11, 2004	1pd 15:02	NYI	@ DAL	Steve Ott
Stars score while Ott and Cairns are battling. Goal goes in and Cairns takes a gloved-punch from Ott. Cairns drops his gloves, one of Ott's goes flying; and then Arnott jumps in (and along comes everyone else). It's a pile and that's the end of it. Other Penalties: Jason Arnott received a game misconduct.
Voted winner: Draw (52.4%) - Voted rating: 1.8
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Feb 11, 2004	2pd 04:51	NYI	@ DAL	Aaron Downey
They agreed to go off of a faceoff, although many feet from each other. A dramatic glove "fling", as Downey likes to do, and they square off. Downey threw a punch that missed and the rest was all Cairns. Some hard rights from Cairns land, maybe five or six, with a few grazing ones in between. Cairns sends Downey to a knee and the linesmen come in.
Voted winner: Eric Cairns (95.2%) - Voted rating: 6.8
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Feb 13, 2004	1pd 02:36	NYI	@ PHO	Andrei Nazarov
Cairns takes a run at Doan and knocks him down. Later on Nazarov goes after Cairns and they drop the gloves outside of the Coyotes' zone moving towards the Islanders' zone. They exchange some ok rights, and then Naz goes to move back and Cairns switches hands and throws some awkward lefts. Naz straightens and gets in-close. They grapple and throw some short shots that don't hit much and then Naz takes Cairns down.
Voted winner: Draw (44.4%) - Voted rating: 3.9
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Feb 19, 2004	3pd 16:06	NYI	@ NYR	Dale Purinton
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.
Voted winner: Dale Purinton (56.3%) - Voted rating: 4.1
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Feb 26, 2004	1pd 09:13	@ NYI	NYR	Dale Purinton
It all starts with Godard and Barnaby. Then Cairns and Purinton come in and suddenly Cairns gets elbowed by Purinton and Purinton falls down. Cairns then throws a handful of punches at the turtling Purinton. Godard starts shoving everyone and Simon grabs him. Godard with rights, Simon with lefts, some good punches back and forth. Simon falls down and Godard falls on top. Other Penalties: Cairns received an instigator, misconduct and game misconduct. Dale Purinton did not receive a fighting major.
Voted winner: Eric Cairns (96.4%) - Voted rating: 3.6
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Mar 04, 2004	2pd 12:59	NYI	@ TOR	Owen Nolan
They're in front of the net, the whistle blows. A shove and then a gloved punch by Cairns. Nolan looks at the ref, sees no call and throws a gloved one back. While still shoving they drop the gloves and Cairns easily gets Nolan's jersey up over his head and throws two light punches as the linesmen are rushing in along with some teammates. The linesmen break it up while Nolan's trying to throw some lefts, which don't really reach. Other Penalties: Each player received a roughing.
Voted winner: Eric Cairns (80.0%) - Voted rating: 2.6
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Mar 12, 2004	1pd 08:17	NYI	@ ANA	Garrett Burnett
They come to together behind the Islanders' net. Burnett's off-balance already, they're both trying to throw rights. Nothing looks like it's connecting. Burnett then falls with Cairns on top.
Voted winner: Draw (48.3%) - Voted rating: 3.4
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Date	Time	For	Against	Opponent
Mar 28, 2004	1pd 09:03	NYI	@ NJD	Grant Marshall
Both talking inside the Isles blueline. They drop them and squareoff. Marshall starts to throw lefts, two of which looked to land good. Cairns is a bit off-balance as he's throwing rights. Marshall switches back to the rights. Cairns starts to use his size and gets Marshall off-balance and starts to land a few rights. Cairns lands about four or five rights to the back of Marshall's head as he's a bit hunched over and off-balance and then the linesmen come in.
Voted winner: Eric Cairns (84.1%) - Voted rating: 7.0
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