Remember that old joke about “I went to the fights and a hockey game broke out”? Apparently the Kontinental Hockey League thought that was a formula for success:
The Kontinental Hockey League may be taking the NHL’s bottom-tier and overage players for the most part, but one thing they’ve provided to the hockey world in their two seasons of existence is plenty of YouTube-worthy brawls. Just over a week ago Barys Astana and SKA St. Petersburg had a brawl that featured former NHL’ers Sergei Zubov, Oleg Saprykin, friend of Puck Daddy Kevin Dallman, commercial superstar Robert Esche, and even a goalie-on-defenseman scrap.
Sovetsky Sport writer Genadi Boguslavski tweeted out details of today’s punch-up that featured Vityaz Chekhov and Avangard Omsk. It didn’t take long for things to go from a line-brawl to the bench-clearing variety.
This first video features Jaromir Jagr in a bit of a tussle and apparently trying out some new Greco-Roman wrestling moves:
The game lasted four minutes, with 637 minutes of penalties handed out.
