4 of the Biggest Fights and Brawls in NHL Playoffs History - The Cheat Sheet
Nothing adds more to the gravitas of hockey — especially for hockey fans — than the fight. There’s the difficulty of the sport, for sure, and the underdog aspect that comes from rooting for a sport that gets short shrift in the national attention span for the majority of the season (When’s the last time the televised half of ESPN really... If you’re not a hockey fan, then probably not. So hockey’s not quite as overexposed as those Kia advertisements featuring Blake Griffin, but that’s how hockey fans like it, right. It was just last season when Chicago Blackhawk Brent Seabrook’s massive hit on St. Louis Blues forward David Backes (which you can see below. while no penalty was assessed on the play, Seabrook would ultimately be hit with a three-game suspension) and the Anaheim Ducks’ complained about the Dallas Stars engaging in rough play (what is this, two-hand-touch hockey. So instead of waiting for fights that might not happen, let’s look back at some of the best playoff fights from the days of yore. Louis Blues vs. Detroit Red Wings – April 12, 1991 The story goes that the St. Louis Blues were down 3-1 against the Detroit Red Wings in the 1991 Stanley Cup Playoffs. They would eventually [spoiler alert] win the series and become just the eighth team to win after being down 3-1 in the series, per NHL. Most fans remember this series for the 4/12/91 massacre. Source: www.cheatsheet.com
