Rick Rypien’s Fighting Mood
Rick Rypien picked up his first fighting major of the season against the Wild‘s Brad Staubitz. It was a short, good, even tilt, but it won’t be the fight Rypien is remembered for.
Mid-way through the second period Rypien went after a Wild fan on his way to the dressing room.
An easy prediction: a suspension is coming for the Vancouver fan favorite. 10+ games seems like a safe bet.
Real background
CBC’s Jeff Marek has another gem for fight fans. Zenon Konopka fought Chris Stewart off the draw Oct 16th. While it seemed like another fight set up during warm-ups, even being called such by MSG play-by-play man Howie Rose during the broadcast, the two players have been waiting for months to go at it. Still “staged”? Or is anything bringing game 7 emotions to an early regular season game fair play?
Videos added
Rick Rypien vs Brad Staubitz Oct 19, 2010
Milan Lucic vs John Erskine Oct 19, 2010
Gregory Campbell vs Matt Hendricks Oct 19, 2010
Rob Davison vs Derek Boogaard Oct 19, 2005
David Backes vs Bryan Bickell Oct 18, 2010
Matt Carkner vs Michael Rupp Oct 18, 2010
Chris Neil vs Deryk Engelland Oct 18, 2010
Zenon Konopka vs Mike Brown Oct 18, 2010
