Tune Up Tuesday
George Parros takes on Scott Parker from the Ducks at Sharks game on Feb 6, 2007. Photo: Jon Swenson / Sharkspage.com
Nothing like some glove swapping and dropping.
The Sharks and Ducks play again tonight.
While that was the last fight of the night, it was far from the first. Nine scraps altogether, here’s a the quick list of the rest: Jeremy Reich–Ben Clymer, Owen Nolan–Zenon Konopka, Raitis Ivanans–Andre Roy, Andrew Ladd–Craig Rivet, Darcy Hordichuk–Maxime Talbot, Jeff Cowan–Zack Stortini, Brent Seabrook–Dion Phaneuf and Steve Montador–Ian Laperriere.
The theme of the night was stepping up for a teammate.
You can watch almost all of the scraps on the videos page. Besides Parros-Parker above, Seabrook-Phaneuf and Ladd-Rivet are both Youtube previews on the vids page and the rest are still all on Youtube. Montador-Lappy is the lone missing scrap, I’ll try and get that soon.
With another fight last night, Lappy now leads the league by two FMs.
Michael Farber over at SI.com has a piece about the George Parros and the Ducks fighting ways, this site gets some love:
The 6’5”, 225-pound Parros tends to be a counterpuncher—last month the one time he was overly aggressive, he was bloodied by a blind swing from Columbus’s Jody Shelley—and has a 4-4-3 record in ‘06-07, at least according to voters on hockeyfights.com, The Ring magazine of hockey’s pugilistic subculture. That website, says Parros, “might as well be my home page.” He downloads fight clips on a PlayStation Portable and studies opponents, “just like getting ready for a test at school.”
From the Sidney’s getting beat up department: Al Strachan writes NHL rules make it hard for the Pens to protect Crosby. Scott Morrison says Sid has to stand up for himself.
Another big site update coming soon, stay tuned.
