Calgary Flames & Vancouver Canucks Wild & Nasty Fight On April 17 2015 !!!!

An already chippy Game 2 between the Vancouver Canucks and Calgary Flames got very ugly during the last minute of the third period on Friday night. Goaltender Eddie Lack made 22 saves to lead the Vancouver Canucks to a 4-1 win over the Calgary Flames to tie their NHL Western Conference quarterfinal playoff series at one game apiece. Daniel Sedin, Chris Higgins, Ronalds Kenins and Radim Vrbata had goals for the Canucks, but it was Lack who earned the love of the Rogers Arena crowd, with fans chanting his name every time he stopped the puck. The game degenerated into a full line brawl late in the third with fights erupting all over the ice deep in the Vancouver zone after a whistle. Among the combatants, Vancouver’s Brad Richardson took on Calgary’s Matt Stajan, while Deryk Engelland squared off with the Canucks’ Derek Dorsett. “Intensity’s high. It’s playoff hockey. You expect things to kind of boil over,” said Dorsett. “We stuck up for each other and we took care of things when we had to.” Following their Game 1 loss on Wednesday, the Canucks went into Friday’s tilt saying Game 2 was a “must-win” and they certainly played like it in the first period. Vancouver opened the scoring less than three minutes into the game when captain Henrik Sedin connected with brother Daniel, who wristed the puck past Flames goaltender Jonas Hiller. “We got off to a great start again, like we did last game,” said Henrik. “We played a good game again. The difference was we scored a few more. That’s why we won.” As the game wound down, some light pushing and shoving turned into an all out melee as Canucks and Flames paired off for some pretty intense extra curricular activity. Gloves, sticks and helmets were discarded quickly as hostilities between the two teams reached a breaking point. The fiercest fighting was between the Flames’ Matt Stajan and the Canucks’ Brad Richardson who looked like they were both gunning for a heavyweight title. Richardson had Stajan pinned to the ice and pummeled him with punches. Deryk Engelland found a dancing partner in Derek Dorsett for several rounds, while other teammates just took turns struggling with each other as the refs tried to break them apart. In total, the fight lasted over two minutes and 132 penalty minutes were awarded out to both sides, including multiple game misconducts for Flames defenseman Engelland. Engelland could also face supplemental discipline from the NHL for violating the instigator rule. Canucks goalie Eddie Lack wisely skated away as to avoid taking any errant punches in this line brawl but he wasn’t so lucky earlier in the game when a scrum broke out in front of his net. Goalies don’t like being messed with, and even someone as mild mannered as Lack is going to push back when he gets knocked down. An agitated Lack ended up punching the Flames’ Brandon Bolling right in the butt. Remember, these are two teams that do not like each other. A line brawl between the two teams during a regular season game last year led then-coach John Tortorella to charge the Flames dressing room during the first intermission. Vancouver and Calgary meet again on Sunday for more pleasantries and perhaps even some actual hockey.