See the ‘Sucker Punch’ That Led to an All-Out Hockey Brawl
- Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:34am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Everything is bigger in Texas. Including the hockey brawls.
On Sunday, the Corpus Christi IceRays were taking on the Texas Tornadoes in a North American Hockey League (NAHL) game. By the third period, the IceRays took a 4-1 lead. That’s when the IceRays noticed the Tornados had sent out their “enforcers” for the ensuing faceoff. And that’s also when things started to get out of hand. Yahoo! Sports explains what happened next:
[IceRays Coach Justin] Quenneville knew what was coming. Sure enough, Texas forward Skyler Spiller stalked Perry D’Arrisso of the Ice Rays after the draw and then sucker-punched him from behind, sparking an energetic line brawl between the NAHL rivals.
The game’s announcers gave an actual blow-by-blow:
The Corpus Christi Caller has more:
Just two seconds later on the ensuing faceoff, Tornado forward Skyler Spiller jumped D’Arrisso from behind at center ice, leading to five simultaneous fights.
“I have absolutely no idea (why it happened),” D’Arrisso said. “I went to the faceoff and (Spiller) didn’t say anything to me.
“The puck dropped and I was looking at it the whole time and I turned around and he was coming right me. I just turtled before I got knocked in the face and everybody jumped in.”
The bad blood also spilled off the ice, with IceRays general manager Pat Dunn engaging in a shouting match with Tornado coach Tony Curtale and assistant Jason Bloomingburg, who briefly played in Corpus Christi during the IceRays’ minor-pro years.
It was the second time the teams got into an all-out brawl this season.
You can see a fan’s-eye view of the fight, that also includes a few middle fingers and curse words, here.
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Comments (120)
jungle J
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:56pmif you get 100 sports fans together 98 of them are whack jobs and degenerates.
Report Post »Average_JoeMN
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:15amThey’re Ron Paul disciples?
Report Post »RepubliCorp
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 7:55amAVERAGE_JOEMN
Report Post »(They’re Ron Paul disciples?) No….Paul disciples would move the goalie to the bench and hope the other team wouldn’t try to score. After that, the Bots would call the fans neo-con pointmongers
LookTowardsTheLight
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 9:01am@RepubliCorp
Well played sir.
Report Post »NOTvotingforRomney
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 10:10amThey are Mitt Romney disciples.
Blind to any of Romney’s OBVIOUS liberal ways from RomneyCare to his Pro TARP bail out of private banks to his Pro ethanol taxpayer bailout/subsidies of PRIVATE farmers and his anti free market approval of then forcing all consumers to put that already farmer subsidized ethonal into our gas tanks.
Yep – hitting from behind and pretending it didn’t exist is right up Mitt Romney fan alley. .
Report Post »john koenig
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:22pm@ Jungle J…Never got picked for the team as a kid, did you Jungle?
Report Post »Publius Novus
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:41pmLast night I went to the fight & a hockey game broke out, Nyuk,Nyuk.
Report Post »Moe1138
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:57pmYeah, I was there too.
Report Post »The_Hut_In_Co
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 8:48pmI think that was Rodney Dangerfields line! A!
Report Post »ASE
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 3:27pmPretty clear what happened: if you can‘t beat ’em, cheat ‘em.
Report Post »jas0707
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:35pmOff the ice it would be assault and battery. Hockey devolves into silliness when these things happen.
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:53pmThat’s hockey… the difference between hockey and most other popular sports is that the hockey players leave it on the ice. They are tought real sportsmanship.
Report Post »Rob Adkerson
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:54pmAre you seriously calling what I just watched “real sportsmanship?”
Report Post »Kalshion
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:44am@Rob Adkerson
I think what he means is that outside of the fights, you wil see real sportmanship amongst not only the hockey players, but for the most part, the fans as well. I‘ve ’never‘ seen fights break out amongst hockey fans in the past six years that I’ve been going to hockey games, but I HAVE seen fights ‘constantly’ break out between Basket Ball and Football, then again, there is very little sportsmanship in both of those games anyway.
The fact of the matter is that while fights in Hockey do happen, they rarely – if ever – get to the degree that you’ll see in FB/BB. Not to mention, that the last game I went to that had a fight break out, you had players on both sides attempting to break it up and in one case, helping a player from the opposite team who got hit pretty hard.
That’s the difference. In Hockey, you do see real sportsmanship – yes there are fights – but that’s part of the game. In FB/BB, it’s every man for himself, and there is very little sportsmanship.
Report Post »john koenig
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:24pm@Jas0707….Yet, off the ice, hockey players are the most normal, law-abiding people out of all four of the major North American team sports. There’s a reason for that.
Report Post »saranda
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 2:45pm@john Koenig – the reason is that they are mostly Canadians and Euros. Sport seems to attract mostly the well mannered Americans as well, although Roenick might be the exception.
Report Post »Taldren
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:34pmAre you not entertained? So much for “the blaze” that burns all this BS away.
Report Post »EqualJustice
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:46pmYou’re a FREAK!
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:40amHockey is a real mans sport. No political correctness in this game. Love it!
Report Post »HotFixIt
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:19pmOur team, the Jackalopes, just finished a round of games with Texas… more fights with them than all season…. FUN! You would think these boys were testonerone filled bullies just always raring to go but you would be wrong. Off the ice they are some of the nicest most well spoken boys you would want to meet.
Think about it… how often do you hear about hockey players getting in trouble other than on the ice? They know how to leave it on the ice. That is sportsmanship!
Report Post »Lucifers Hammer
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:16pmThis when it ceases to be a sport and is nothing more than a gang of criminals who should be put down like rabid dogs.
Report Post »Quagmir
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:37amGang suggests more then one. One person did this and the others were protecting the team on both sides. Do you feel the same way when a pitcher beans a batter and the benches clear? or when a tennis player headbutts the other player after the match. How about benches clearing in basketball. How about when soccer fans brawl in the stands…….I guess the differene is in hockey fighting is legit, though this guy IMO deserves a healthy suspention.
Report Post »Zorro6821
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 6:44amThe great thinkers on the blaze now want to censer hockey!! What a bunch of dopes and Hypocrites! If you can’t handle hockey go back to watching Dancing With The Stars!
Report Post »john koenig
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 1:26pm@Lucifer’s Hammer…An idiotic statement like that tells me you’ve never watched a game in your life.
Report Post »jackofiron
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:11pmYou realize, of course, that MMA is the fastest growing sport right now – right? That has lots of fighting. I had season tickets to our local minor leagues (17-21year olds) for 4 years. They’ve actually been putting the damper on fighting for some time now.
But lets be honest, we don’t watch hockey for the ice skating anymore than we watch car racing for the colorful, fast cars…
P.S. I’ve heard Football, Futbol (as they say for Soccer), and Rugby are all pretty rough too. Perhaps the weenies out there would prefer that these men pick up sword and shield & guns and ammo and have more wars to take out their competitive aggression…
Report Post »FlintMINIGHTMARE
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:01pmHAHAHA YEAAAAA!!!! I played in the NA, Its so nice to see it on the blaze!…..I wish my work computer aloud videos from Youtube!
Report Post »schroeder123
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:44pmGive them a hammer and a sword….. Let get back to the old style Roman Games Yeeeaahhhh
Report Post »Quagmir
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:30ammaybe you didn’t notice the sword like object they carry? notice how he did not use it. Maybe Cricket is better suited for you.
Report Post »Bill Wallace
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:38pmFor all those too ignorant to know what hockey even is, let alone being able to name a rule…
Fighting has ALWAYS been a part of the game. Don’t like it? I suggest you pick up something more suitable like basketball or soccer.
Bunch of weak willed pansies. No wonder we can’t win a war in Iraq or Afghanistan. Bunch of rock-chuckers holding off the greatest military in the world for 10 years because of the bleeding hearts we grow these days.
Report Post »arx
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:44pmExactly right Bill. People don’t understand the sport. Although this particular fight appeared to be started by a sore loser. But then again I didn’t see the game and maybe he had a legitimate beef from earlier….
Report Post »Quagmir
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 12:29amFights happen in Basketball, Soccer, Baseball and Football all the time. The only difference is no one gets suspended in Hockey because it is part of the game, like it or not.
What happened here from the footage shown was a team losing and the enforcers came out which is normal, the other team wasnt bright enough to do the same. Usually there is talk at the line saying lets drop em when the puck drops and they go at it, it gets the fans into it as well as gets your team pumped up.
This was obviously a 1 sided fight and the other wanted no part of it as he skated away while the other tossed his gloves and stick down. It should have stopped right there and he should have been giving an unsportsmanlike 10 minute penalty. 1 guy being a dick doesnt make all of hockey bad though. what happened after was everyone sticking up for there team mates which should always happen in any sport.
Report Post »KusoJiJi
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:24pmwhen a hockey player comes onto the ice for the sole purpose of fighting, it is no longer sport, it is assault and battery.
Report Post »bpodlesnik
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:35pmDo you not consider UFC a sport then? While I know way agree with how that fight started, I do enjoy watching hockey fights, and everyone dropping the gloves into an all out brawl occasionally.
Report Post »Joe1123
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:09pmBig deal. This ain’t nothin …. bring back the days when they cleared the benches. Back when they settled their differences with their fists, instead of trying to maim someone for life by driving them head first into the boards from behind. Bring back REAL HOCKEY.
Report Post »RavenGlenn
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:08pmThat was absolutely disgusting. The coach should be massively fined if not banned from the league for that kind of goonery. You want to have your players fight the other team? Fine. But you don‘t attack someone who’s back is turned and blindside them.
Report Post »Balrog28
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:34pmSorry dude – but maybe the coach provoked the players to fight, but what that player did off the draw was not start a fight – he sucker-punched an opposing player who was attempting to play the game. A coach is not at fault for that behavior.
So if your kid chose to go commit a misdemeanor or a felony, you should be blamed and not allowed to be a parent anymore?
It’s called Personal Responsibility – something that is not being taught anywhere anymore…
Report Post »zipbags
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:46pmI didn’t know the Hanson brothers were still playing. Was like a scene out of the movie “Slap Shot”.
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:17pmI went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
Report Post »SpankDaMonkey
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:16pm.
Report Post »I wonder how hard it would be to get Obama in a Chairty Hockey Game?….
LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:14pmHockey Sucks
Report Post »saranda
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:59pmPeople like you are much better served watching football with its 12 minutes of action per game or maybe baseball where you can leave for the bathroom, grab a hot dog and still not miss anything of interest. Those “sports” suck.
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:56pmHOCKEY RULES big TIME
Report Post »Seabass82
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:55amthats junior hockey!
Report Post »Rowgue
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:08pmIt’s not junior hockey, it’s minor league hockey.
Report Post »LIBSALWAYSLIE
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:11pmSpiller should be banned for life, what a total jerk.
Report Post »saranda
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:20pmWrong Rowgue. These are all kids working there way towards US hockey scholarships. In fact 7 of the kids on the Tornadoes and Icerays are already committed to Div 1 schools. If they were minor Pro they would not be eligible. http://www.nahl.com/college/
Report Post »Personally I don’t understand why schools recruit from this league with so many better leagues, but I guess the options for US kids is limited to this and the USHL (also a junir league). More US kids are playing hockey and the Canadian leagues are filled to the max so we keep inventing these new leagues. Personally my kids will go to Canada to get better competitiion once they are of junior age (16ish) and hopefully chase the US scholarship route (if they are good enough). There is no better sport than hockey.
Guyshives
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:44pmNo, actually it is Jr. Hockey its the North American Hockey League. I played for the Tornado.
Check your facts before you post a stupid comment.
Report Post »Seabass82
Posted on January 18, 2012 at 4:42pmThe NAHL is a tier 1 Junior A hockey league. I played in the junior ranks and I know my junior hockey. Look it up!
Report Post »ares338
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:55amWhat a bunch of barely sentient morons!
Report Post »weneedrubio
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:43amHockey needs to be disbanded. It’s stupidity has filtered down to the kids leagues where parents are just as likely to fight as the kids. They are getting hurt badly in some cases and lawsuits are becoming routine and this all comes from the pros. They are a disgrace and should be put in jail for these fights
Report Post »TexasConservativeCowboy
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:48amyou are an idiot =)
Report Post »wheels
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:54amQuiet Lib…if you or others dont like it dont watch it, dont play it…some of us love it, period! You’re attitude is the #1 thing wrong with this country, if I dont think its cool I want it shut down for all these reasons, disregard that others have a differing opinion. Idjut!
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:56amDisbanded?..Minnesota has Rubio. Rick
Report Post »USPATRIOT101
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:06pmThat was fun!!!
Report Post »BAPDCO
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 12:16pmI honestly believe that “hockey” actually promotes some of this behavior; however, you can’t just ban the game simply because you disagree with it. The easiest thing for you to do is “don’t watch”. If we banned everything with which someone disagrees (or is offended by) we’d all be living inside hermetically sealed bubbles and would have no human contact whatsoever.
Report Post »PunkMooCow
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:06pmagreed
Report Post »itsmyfirstday
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:11pmI agree with Texas…
Report Post »PunkMooCow
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:11pmwhat I meant was, agreed ewith Texasconservativecowboy
Report Post »sndrman
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 5:58pmbaseball to thoese baseball dads.football dads to.basketball dads to lets ban all sports. the sisification of sports. there is a great devices that come with every tv called a chanel changer also an off switch. it‘s pure liberalism that if i don’t like something then everyone should not like it as well….
Report Post »american1st
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:43amwhere are the Hanson brothers when you need them… “Piss on old-time hockey! “
Report Post »TexasConservativeCowboy
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:43amI went to a fight once and a Hockey game broke out, it was the craziest thing ! =)
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:42amI went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
Report Post »Old time hockey – not the european fancy boy – keep ya head up fellas
Balrog28
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 1:37pmPuttin’ on the foil – you want some?
Report Post »Balrog28
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 2:14pmI’m trying to listen to the fricking song!
Report Post »brother_ed
Posted on January 17, 2012 at 11:41amHockey is the only real game left.
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