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FanIQ Blog: Hockey Fight Of The Day: Ian Laperriere, Colorado Avalanche vs. Eric Nystrom, Calgary Flames
Slap Shot: The Morning Skate: A Wreck on the Highway
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop: A HOCKEY FIGHT FEATURING ICE, PUNCHING
Hockey Fight Of The Day: Ian Laperriere, Colorado Avalanche vs. Eric Nystrom, Calgary Flames
FanIQ Blog —
The announcers called this one a "motivation fight". I like how that works, and I wish there were more motivation fights in other sports. After Eric Nystrom got in the first couple shots, Ian LaPerriere threw some great motivation at the side of his head.
Normally, I would ...
The Morning Skate: A Wreck on the Highway
Slap Shot —
Tuesday night is Hockey Night for us, and there are few things worse than being late for the game because of a traffic jam. Some guy with a tall tractor trailer tried to fit under a too-short overpass on a parkway that strictly prohibits commercial vehicles for just this reason. I was well behind the mishap and went nowhere for about 40 minutes. I passed the wreckage when it was finally dragged out from under the bridge and off to the side. Guys were blow-torching a long metal strip that had ripped free from the side of the truck like a peel off a banana. The sparks flew everywhere. You knew someone was gonna get yelled at. So I missed about half ...
A HOCKEY FIGHT FEATURING ICE, PUNCHING
With Leather - Sports news and gossip, panda sex, and the occasional Toonces the driving cat Photoshop —
Today is crazy slow in sports news, which means it’s time to start mining the NHL for video of hockey fights. And voilà, here’s a scrap between Calgary’s Eric Nystrom and the Avs’ Ian LaPerriere, the latter of whom obviously became an enforcer to compensate for a fruity last name.
Honestly, it’s a pretty unremarkable fight, but there’s a moment at the 0:33 mark where Nystrom tears off LaPerriere’s helmet, and it seems possible — almost likely — that Nystrom is going to beat LaPerriere with his own helmet. ...
