Off Wing Opinion

Here's some video of a massive brawl between the Wilkes-Barre Penguins and the Syracuse Crunch. Turn down the volume as there's nothing but white noise on the audio track.

For background, click here for more on 2001's St. Patrick's Day Massacre.

This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 26th, 2006 at 12:45 pm by Eric McErlain and is filed under Hockey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Well, almost. I'm sure Dion Phaneuf wanted to fight Jarkko Ruutu, but it just didn't work out.

The good news: The Russian judge gave Dion a 9.5.

Here's the bad news: We only saw this clip because an enterprising individual posted it for us. What the league needs is a 7 nights a week highlight show in the U.S. and there isn't any excuse for OLN/Comcast to not be doing it.

Comcast has studios all across the country courtesy of their Comcast SportsNet affiliates in cities like Philly, Washington and Chicago. They have air staff in each of those cities who could host the show, or, alternately, replicate Fox Soccer Channel's model with their weekly MLS Wrap program that combines highlights with a voiceover.

30 minutes, every night, on OLN and most critically, online. The league ought to be demanding this from Comcast.

BONUS FRACAS: Every hear of a "Donkey Kong right"? I guess this clip of Dennis Bonvie and Jason Gratton confirms that my own generation has started to elbow its way into the broadcast booth.

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This entry was posted on Wednesday, April 5th, 2006 at 7:04 am by Eric McErlain and is filed under Hockey. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.