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Monday, April 7, 2014

Video: The Charity Brawl

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Video: The Charity Brawl

posted at 2:41 pm on April 7, 2014 by Ed Morrissey

For the last forty-one years, the New York Police and Fire Departments have held a charity hockey game, but no one would confuse them with professional hockey teams, right? Well … maybe. Last night’s game featured a 25-minute brawl that looked like a replay of Slap Shot, with everyone but the goalies getting in on the action.

Semi-serious question — who would they have called to break this up if it hadn’t gotten under control after almost a half-hour? New Jersey state troopers?

The NYPD and FDNY took the ice Sunday for their annual charity hockey game at Nassau Coliseum. And while it started out with the usual spirit of camaraderie, it didn’t take long for things to get out of hand.

Like, really out of hand.

As CBS New York reports, with the score tied 3-3 in the second period, the teams engaged in the type of full-out bench-clearing brawl that was typically seen in the NHL during the 1970s and ’80s, and is still occasionally waged in the minors today.

At one point almost all of the players on both sides were fighting, save for the goalies.

Well, the FDNY fans seemed to enjoy it, anyway:

Neither agency would comment later on the brawl. The fan from one of the above videos later called into CBS New York tried to explain how the fight started, and was surprised that the players managed to finish the game:

Let’s hope that this raises a lot of money for their charities … and perhaps a few anger-management classes.

Tags: FDNY, hockey, NYPD

Source from: hotair

Friday, February 21, 2014

Open thread: U.S. vs. Canada in Olympic hockey semifinal

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Open thread: U.S. vs. Canada in Olympic hockey semifinal

posted at 11:21 am on February 21, 2014 by Allahpundit

Noon ET on NBC Sports, or you can watch the livestream online by logging in via your cable-provider username and password. For hockey fans, it’s a rematch of the scintillating 2010 gold-medal game between two evergreen powerhouses. For the other 97 percent of us, it’s a magical brew of nationalism and revenge for not one but two overtime heartbreaks. According to Gallup, 93 percent of Americans rate Canada favorably; if they beat the U.S. again, that number could sink to the high 80s. Stakes are high.

The winner gets Sweden, which survived the Scandinavian version of U.S./Canada in the other semifinal, for the gold on Sunday. The U.S. has made it to the finals twice in the past 30 years but hasn’t won it all since Miracle on Ice. While we wait, enjoy this dissection of possible shenanigans in the judging for last night’s women’s figure skating finals. Experts seem shocked that a Russian skater, on Russian ice, somehow outpointed Yuna Kim and Carolina Kostner, the favorites. Could there be … corruption at Sochi?

Update: Here’s the livestream.