I've talked before about the joke of a team in Russia that has a bunch of former goons from the North American professional leagues. They were back at it again attacking their opponents. I have no clue how they are not either suspended for half of the season or just kicked out of the league.
It starts with Kip Brennan, a nasty dude when he played in the AHL and NHL. He actually even played for Hershey twice and I stood next to him during the Calder Cup Finals run when he was in the club section. Never really liked him and still don't. Then Jon Mirasty decides to start pounding on a player. He played parts of four seasons in the AHL. He had 78 fights in 186 games and 1 goal.
Finally Nick Tarnasky gets involved. I don't know when his career started going downhill. He had played three straight seasons in the NHL before spending all of last year in the AHL. He picked up a cool 20 fighting majors. But perhaps the best part of the video, or actually the worst is I have never seen a player use his stick to rope in another player.
All of these guys are tough. We get that. Starting fights with unwilling smaller players who have rarely if ever fought is such an absolute joke. And I enjoy a good fight. They would never be able to get away with this in the AHL which all of these guys played in last year. Not to mention they would actually be up against other guys who could fight.
Jeremy Yablonski, not shown in this clip, was later ejected for actually skating around and trying to catch opponents.
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