Barch Again
Big night, big update.
Krys Barch just can’t say no to a fight right now. Eight games, six fights. Both fights last night came after Barch threw big checks. The first was on Ryan Johnson. Matt Walker said hello to him quickly after. The second was a big hit on Dallas Drake. Johnson beat Jamal Mayers over to Barch that time around.
Congratulations Mark Rycroft
Rycroft became the first Avalanche player other than Ian Laperriere to drop the gloves this season when he took on Ladislav Smid. Not a big fight, but unexpected from two players with a combined 28 PIMs going into the game. Laperriere went earlier in the game with Matt Greene. Greene went after Lappy for a hit on Smid. Lappy’s leading the NHL in fighting majors with 13.
Who needs eyes?
Travis Moen floored Shea Weber even though Moen’s jersey was pulled over his head. The two went after Sean O’Donnell and Scott Hartnell threw a few punches and started a late-game scrum. There’s no immediate update on Weber and he will be checked for a concussion.
There’s one more Preds-Ducks game on Mar 04, 2007. Preds coach Barry Trotz set it up nicely:
“They started taking some cheap shots,” Trotz told local reporters. “We’ll have long memories. We marked some numbers down.”
Sean Avery’s new fans
Avery went with Greg Campbell last night and Tom K fought Chris Gratton. However, it’s not the fight that’s getting Avery attention right now. From Steve Simmons:
Big-mouth Sean Avery, hardly popular among the players, is suddenly popular. The reason? On a conference call with PA executives, he called out Stu Grimson, the former player, for being a lawyer, but one who’s not certified to practise in Ontario where he happens to work.
Nothing like a little union feuding to start building popularity.
Byron Ritchie
Is anyone out there not a fan of Ritchie (other than Oilers fans)? Big heart in a small package. He’s like another Rob DiMaio, and everyone’s a DiMaio fan, no? Ritchie had an entertaining scrap with Alex Burrows last night. Ritchie at hockeydb, DiMaio at hockeydb
Big, Big Snake
Robin Big Snake had a hell of a game for himself last night. Four goals, one assist and two fights. Big Snake now shares the lead for majors in the UHL with Curtis Tidball.
Francois Leroux has returned to the LNAH, signing with the Chiefs.
All scraps from the night are on the videos page and on Youtube: the Anaheim-Nashville highlight above, with Barch-Johnson and Burrows-Ritchie as previews on the vids page.
The Arizona Republic’s David Vest doesn’t hide what he was hoping to see at last night’s Wild-Coyotes game:
What a bummer. Minnesota’s Derek Boogaard, a 6-7 enforcer, was a healthy scratch Saturday. I’m guessing many fans in attendance, like me, were hoping to again see something physical transpire between Boogaard and Coyotes enforcer Georges Laraque. The last time the Coyotes played the Wild at Jobing.com Arena, the league’s top two heavyweights dropped gloves, and Boogaard injured a knee as he fell to the ice and missed the next 10 games. Boogaard, too, likely wasn’t pleased he didn’t play Saturday. The teams play once more this season, March 20 in St. Paul.
Some more reads:
Blow wobbles Weber
Sitting frustrates Hordichuk
Now that it’s about 7am, it’s time to get some sleep…
