{"id":2343,"date":"2010-01-11T10:18:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=2343"},"modified":"2010-01-11T10:23:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-11T14:23:08","slug":"coming-to-your-area-soon-the-xhl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2010\/01\/11\/coming-to-your-area-soon-the-xhl\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming to your area soon: the XHL!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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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.<\/p>\n

Sovetsky Sport<\/em> 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.<\/p>\n

This first video features Jaromir Jagr in a bit of a tussle and apparently trying out some new Greco-Roman wrestling moves: <\/p>\n

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The game lasted four minutes, with 637 minutes of penalties handed out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,18],"tags":[284],"class_list":["post-2343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-sports","tag-hockey"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-BN","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2347,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2343\/revisions\/2347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}