Missed Battle: Artyukhin vs. Chara

by John Fontana on Apr 1, 2009 12:04 PM EDT

If there was any reason, any reason at all, that I was remorseful for not being able to watch last nights ~~drubbing of the~~ Bolts game, it came from when I saw a boxscore stat flashed on NHL.com: Evgeny Artyukhin and Zdeno Chara getting fighting majors at the same time...

That meant they dropped'em and went at it... and that was something I wanted to see. Not because I'm someone who believes in fighting in the NHL, but more because they were two big men going at it. While Chara has the height advantage (4 inches on the tall Artoo), Artyukhin has the bigger build...

For the curious, behold the battle of the big men:

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No video for Josef Melichar vs. Milan Lucic?

Pick SPG for your chance to win probably nothing.

by xiix on Apr 1, 2009 12:37 PM EDT reply actions

Not much of a fight

I’d embed it in comments but that doesn’t seem to be working. Regardless — here’s the beatdown of Melichar.

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by John Fontana on Apr 1, 2009 1:35 PM EDT up reply actions

I remember hearing the radio call on this fight

Mishkin made it sound like Arty left Chara a quivering mass of flesh. That’s why I love Mishkin; his exaggerations are so fantastically awful that it’s hilarious.

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by kericr on Apr 3, 2009 3:15 PM EDT reply actions 1 recs