Pittsburgh Penguins winger Arron Asham knocked out the Washington Capitals’ Jay Beagle in the first memorable fight of the NHL season last night.
After the KO, Asham put his hands together like a pillow and rested his head on them on the way to the penalty box.
After the game, Asham himself called the taunt “classless,” saying he just got caught up in the heat of the moment.
Capitals star Alex Ovechin called out Asham for picking a battle with an inexperienced fighter.
Beagle was left bloodied and dazed after the knockout, and pulled out a tooth before heading to the locker room.
Here’s the (relatively violent) video:
This is what i always hated about american hockey, it’s just pointless violence that’s allowed to happen cos american crowds lap it up. In other leagues the refs usually step in as soon as there is trouble to allow the game to continue.
Come, everyone knows sport was better when there were few scraps in every game! Raises the intensity. In hockey you don’t have to fight if you don’t want to, take a knee and bow out if your challenged and feel you’re going to get ko’d.
And by the way, it’s not an ‘American sport’, it’s played professionally in many countries and is the number one sport in places like Canada, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Russia, in fact most of the old eastern block too.