Last Century NHL Free-For-All

When NHL goaltenders dropped the gloves and fought

Here along the Lake There are many hockey content creators on notyourtube and this gem was posted by Classic Buffalo Sports Video highlighting a late 1990s version of the Sabres beating the daylights out of their opponent.

This unfortunately is what happens when the officials lose control of a game, not all the blame lays at the skates of the Referee (only one) and two Linesmen, players contribute as well when players stick up for one another…over, and over again.

There is a meme that states, “Life should be like hockey, if someone angers you, beat the snot out of them, then sit down for five minutes.”, it is always amusing when an athlete from a different professional sport watches a hockey altercation for the first time and wonders aloud, “Are they allowed to do that?”.

In today’s NHL we still witness scrums to full blown donnybrooks, and violent boarding/checking/slashing plays, but mostly the “fighting” that occurs in the NHL today is more…jostling than anything else, the gloves are not dropped as quickly as they were in past seasons.

Do fisticuffs have a place in ice hockey, most definitely, should it be? Well, this is a volatile subject with many people explaining that it does, and some say that it should not.

Bottom line, if blackeyes and bloody noses make you squeamish perhaps a more sedate game would be more palatable, for example…curling or golf.