Comedian Rodney Dangerfield had the joke: “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out”.
Well, the joke came to life on Thursday (Australian time) when bitter rivals the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils faced off at Madison Square Garden.
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As the puck was dropped to start the game, the gloves came off with all 10 of the starting skaters breaking out into a fight.
New York’s Jimmy Vesey and New Jersey’s Curtis Lazar dropped the gloves first but were quickly followed by the rest of the players.
The main event was between Matt Rempe and Kurtis MacDermid with their fight going the longest.
The pair had some history as the Rempe refused to fight MacDermid early in the game but later knocked out Devil’s defenceman Jonas Siegenthaler with a high elbow, an incident that ultimately cost him a four-game sus...
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