Quebec Nordiques-Montreal Canadiens bench clearing brawl part2

Quebec Nordiques- Montreal Canadiens : Battle of Quebec part 2 "The Wildest Night of All" by Bruce Hood Upon returning to the ice I summoned the two captains Bob Gainey or Montreal and Mario Marois of Quebec to the penalty box area and began explaining the penalty situation. The Habs public relations director, Claude Mouton, who handles the P.A. chores during games, was busy announcing all the penalties from the second-period incident. When he announced Nilans game misconduct, the Montreal player skated over to me and naively asked why he was being sent to the showers. I looked up and after a moments hesitation realized that there had been a screwup. Nilan had been tossed out of the game after the brawl and wasnt supposed to be back on the ice for the start of the third period. Then I looked around and saw Sleigher, Statsny and Tremblay out there. No one had informed the teams which players had been ejected from the game! As the teams were skating around in their respective ends, Moller stopped near the Montreal bench and started challenging Nilan, who was being led off the ice on my direction. As soon as I saw this I rushed over and warned Moller to cut it out. But he kept calling Nilan every filthy name under the sun. After warning him a second time, I gave him a game misconduct and told him to get off the ice. While I was waving at him to go to the dressing room, Tony McKegney came over and started pleading with me, practically begging me to give Moller a second chance. But Moller had still not regained his cool and I felt he would serve no useful purpose on the ice. Quebecs coach, Michel Bergeron, was incensed when he heard the announcement that Peter Statsny was out of the game but he was smart enough to grab Moller at the bench and keep him there. Tremblay skated past Moller and yelled something at him that made him even angrier. A moment later, Montreals Mark Hunter stopped at the center red line near the Quebec bench, yelled something at Sleigher and dropped his gloves. I couldnt believe it! I didnt need this! Not again! All the players rushed over and Wally Weir of Quebec and Mike McPhee of the Canadiens emerged from the pile throwing punches. Dale Hunter grabbed Richard Sevigny, then Clint Malarchuk moved in and pulled Sevigny away. John Chabot went over and pushed Hunter. After a few seconds, Hodges separated Weir and McPhee. The situation seemed to be settling down again when Mark Hunter skated towards Sleigher in the corner. It was obvious the Habs had cooked up a plan during the intermission to get back at Sleigher for punching Hamel they were doing everything possible to surround him. I was between Hunter and Sleigher, trying desperately to keep them at arms length. Wilf Paiment of Quebec came over and grabbed Hunters stick. Hunter was trying to swing it at Sleigher, who was obviously frightened and was doing his best to duck behind DAmico. Sevigny rushed in to get at Hunter and once again it seemed like everyone was going at it. Malarchuk, Chris Chelios, Alain Cote, Bobby Smith, Andre Savard, Mario Tremblay, Michel Goulet all of them were involved to some degree. Hodges and DAmico had done a good job separating the main combatants but they couldnt be everywhere at once. Mark Hunter decided he still wanted to get Sleigher and went after him again, shaking off his brother, Dale. He circled around in back of Sleigher, who was now being held by DAmico. Dale was just trying to grab Sleigher when Tremblay came flying through the air and tackled him to the ice. This triggered a quick and violent chain reaction: Andre Dore jumped on top of Tremblay and began punching him in the back of the head. Rick LaPointe and Chelios then leaped in and the whole pile of players went crashing to the ice in front of the Quebec bench. All I could do was stand by the boards and shake my head a referees nightmare come to life! Dore and Tremblay got up and continued punching. Then they fell to the ice again, with Tremblay on top. Peter Statsny, standing by himself in front of the bench, calmly peeled off his gloves, then skated over to the fight scene, bent down and started punching Tremblay in the back. And they say Europeans never fight! Guy LaFleur pulled himself free of J.F. Suave and managed to yank Statsny off Tremblay. The other players matched up again. Dale Hunter took over from Statsny and started pummeling Tremblay. Then Mark Hunter skated in from behind and jumped his brother. His brother! Hodges went down to break it up. Will it ever end? I asked myself. Thankfully, once Hodges separated the Hunters, all of the fighting seemed to stop.