Just three seconds into last night’s Avs-Blues contest, Colorado’s Gabriel Landeskog and St. Louis’s Brayden Schenn decided to randomly drop the gloves and have a brawl in open ice. The initial violence in itself was 20 seconds of intensity, but the fight really heated up and came to a climax when Landeskog grabbed a hold of Schenn’s jersey and stripped him down.
Neither player really landed enough clean punches to get declared a “winner,” but if you take the other guy’s shirt off, that probably counts for something. Schenn got revenge, though, reclothing himself and getting back out on the ice to score two goals in a 6-1 win.