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2006 U.S. men's hockey sadly does not believe in miracles, but the always on time Off Wing Opionion posts one of greatest hockey fights imaginable to bring a smile to our face. Apparently, this all-out brawl took place a week ago in a Romanian league final and it involves both benches on the ice, much stick swinging and copious amounts of spilled blood. Enjoy!

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• #2 Comment from annyko 
  2/24/06 2:01 PM | Permalink

  Although the game was between Romanian teams, the announcers are speaking Hungarian.  Since I also speak Hungarian, I could listen to the play-by-play on the fight and it was pretty funny.  It consisted of a lot of "Oh no!" and "Here he comes again!", but also had: "God, he's bleeding so much.  Everyone [on the other team] is afraid to go near him."
  
  The video is actually of a fight from the Romanian Hockey Finals in 2000.  (But there was apparently another huge Romanian hockey brawl recently in which 10 players were suspended.)
  
  If you want to see some more great Romanian hockey fights, go to this link:
  
  http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6891873796773147917&q=Romanian+hockey+fight
  
  and then click on the “More from this User” link on the right-hand side.  Then just click on one of the other Hockey Fight videos.  I think the first one listed may be the fight that happened recently.    
  
• #1 Comment from monponsett 
  2/22/06 10:13 PM | Permalink

  It's a shame they wear those plastic helmets to protect those cement heads.
  
  I grew up in Boston, so I immediately saw that a few cardinal hockey fight rules were broken there... which is why that got so ugly.
  
  - Drop the gloves... cause you have to drop the sticks to do so.
  
  - Never be the third man in... because that is always followed by 4th-30th men in, and they all come in behind you.
  
  - If your teammate is fighting 3 guys and you don't jump in, you're a p*ssy.
  
  - Even if you win the fight, never be the guy who chooses to fight someone in front of another team's bench, especially in a bench-clearer.
  
  - Helmets. No one would take those lumberjack swings at your head unless you were wearing a helmet.
  
  - Goalies should always fight each other, because they are more heavily armored.
  
  Hockey fights don't REALLY get bad until:
  
  - fans end up in it
  
  - cops come out to break it up, and players fight THEM.
  
  - The ice gets littered with smuggled-in whiskey bottles
  
  - someone gets bitten (Ken Linseman was known for this)
  
  Derek Sanderson fought 5 guys at once back in his day, and he noted that fighting 5 guys is actually easier than fighting one because "every punch you throw hits someone."