Hello David Koci

Hope you caught the Hawks-Yotes game last night.  Don’t say we didn’t tell you to.  hockeyfightstradamus.com, that’s us.

In case you missed it, David Koci came into the NHL with a bang.  Three fights and 42 PIMs total.  Two were against Josh Gratton, both entertaining scraps, and the third was versus Nick Boynton, who took exception to a hit Koci threw on Bill Thomas.  Koci picked up a gamer for the hit (along with a charging major) and another gamer for his third fight of the game.

The first fight of that game was actually a non-Koci fight, a good bout between Danny Richmond and Daniel Carcillo.

Earlier in the day Colton Orr took on Georges Laraque.  You just can’t outmuscle BGL.

The clips:

Colton Orr vs Georges Laraque Mar 10, 2007
Danny Richmond vs Daniel Carcillo Mar 10, 2007
David Koci vs Josh Gratton Mar 10, 2007
David Koci vs Josh Gratton Mar 10, 2007
David Koci vs Nick Boynton Mar 10, 2007

The second Koci-Gratton clip has a short interview with Koci that they play during the replay of the fight.

Also earlier in the day Jeremy Reich took on Darren Reid and in the evening Cam Janssen fought Andrew Peters.

ETA on Reich-Reid is mid-day and unknown for Janssen-Peters.  I’ll update as I know more.

The downloads will be added mid-day as well.

Sever issues:

Things are still running, but a bit bumpy.  For the nerd-curious, one of the databases is lagging hard.  I hope to have this cleared up some time this week and it should be very speedy around here afterwards.

Last night:

I went to the Isles–Caps game and sat with the Caps Road Crew.  Good set of fans.  If they can follow the Caps like that, they have to be.  I hope to write up more about the game later in the day either here or on The Ice Block (I’ll link over there if I do).

Some reads:

Janssen puts up a fight
Laraque finally a big hit for Penguins
The legend grows: Bob Probert. A convincing winner over Dave Brown in our final

Chris Simon update:

Still nothing official released about his suspension, but most are accepting the season+seven playoff games.  Whether or not it was a real leak of information, it’s perfect for the league.  They get to gauge reaction and then make the real call at a later date.

Simon also issued an apology.

Our on-going timeline of the incident.

Update 250pm: Added:

Jeremy Reich vs Darren Reid Mar 10, 2007

Update 515pm: Downloads updated.