Can someone make a gif of Cliffy dropping the gloves from last nights fight? I found it kind of funny how he did it.
Me too--rewound that part several times
He looked around a little then looked back and Mighty-Ducks'ed it
I thought the Kings made Chara and Rask look downright pedestrian last night. Perennial Norris candidate Chara was on the ice for two goals against and got badly stripped by Dwight King for another chance. Vezina candidate Rask got cleanly beat twice and dropped big rebounds for a whole period.
Funny how one night the Kings put on a bunch of shots, control the game, and the board goes crazy about how much they suck and the next night the Kings put on a bunch of shots, control the game, and now the Kings style bothers nobody.
I thought it was fantastic watching that first line really go at Chara. Usually players take a wide path away from him but our size really helped out in not just taking away that advantage but giving it to us.
And as far as the style, think about the opponent. We played functionally the same game vs. a beat up Wild team as we did vs. a stacked Bruins team. I think
that is the problem everyone has--we don't win quite a few of the games we 'should.'
Marchand should be thankful his hand came off his stick. He's a cocky son of a ***** with an ego the size of Boston and not much intelligence.
In retrospect it wasn't a big deal to me in effect but it was in intent. He's lucky he both took his hand off his stick AND missed with the punch because it would be a whole different ballgame otherwise (especially with player safety's inaccurate focus on "results"). Since Stoll wasn't hurt or really contacted hard by either thing, meh, whatever.
Marchand is getting the Dustin Brown treatment on the main board, though