If that Team MMA concept ever gets off the ground, the Rockford IceHogs should be the first to sign up.
I mean, we’ve already seen them don a bunch of pink sweaters and throw hands at the Grand Rapids Griffins, so it should be no surprise to see them drag an opposing player onto their bench and try to beat the shit out of him. I’ll let you watch the clip and decide who YOU think is responsible for a BENCHFIGHT~, but I’m gonna site precedent and go with the Hogs.
Video is below.
Quick, name four random things! If you answered …
1. Tomáš Jurčo
2. Nine Inch Nails
3. the movie TRON
4. BatteriesPlus
… (and I have no reason to believe you’d answer otherwise), you’re going to love this clip from the Grand Rapids Griffins, by way of Vimeo and Reddit. In it, assuming you need the pieces put together, Jurčo plays hockey in the dark to ’17 Ghosts II’ by Nine Inch Nails, wrapped in light-up tubing (courtesy of sponsor BatteriesPlus, I guess) that mimics the aesthetic of TRON. It promotes … something, and is pretty cool. Batteries, I think?
Anyway, check out the clip below. It’s neat looking, at the very least.
The Grand Rapids Griffins and Rockford Ice Hogs had a bench-clearing AHL brawl for the ages, and it’s easily the best hockey fight you’ll ever see featuring a dozen dudes in pink sweaters. (via The Detroit Sports Site)
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“Fiesta” your eyes on the Los IceHogs jersey, a special-occasion alternate for the AHL Chicago Blackhawks affiliate Rockford IceHogs. I’ve been trying to come up with an occasion that would require a hockey team to dress like that, and I’ve come up with two believable options:
1. IceHogs player John Marston purchased a safehouse in Nuevo Paraiso.
2. Corona is sponsoring a promotion, and there isn’t a huge hockey-loving Latino community in Rockford, Illinois, so instead of being “Hispanic Heritage Night” it’s just “Mexico”.
I mean, what’s next? Are they gonna give fans maracas? A special appearance by Dora The Explorer?
It’s “Los IceHogs” night at the BMO Harris Bank Center! The first 2,500 fans into the building will get a Los IceHogs Maraca (one of four colors) compliments of Corona. The Hogs will also be wearing specialty jerseys that will be auctioned off.
I know I can be a little bleeding-heart about these things, but man. We’ve seen “los” jerseys in other sports with varying degrees of success (“Los Heat” is still pretty terrible), but did they have to give the Mexican IceHog a Cheech mustache? Did they have to put him in a sombrero? More importantly, did they also have to put the numbers on the backs of the jerseys in sombreros? This is an actual thing:
Just because the big boys in the NHL are locked out and/or playing overseas, it doesn’t mean that there isn’t any good hockey news to report. Take, for instance, the sweethearts of the AHL’s Providence Bruins, the developmental team of the Boston franchise with the same mascot. A number of the team’s players followed in the pro league club’s footsteps by spending their Halloween visiting the sick children at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Take the tissues out of your bloody nose and use them to wipe away the happy tears.
Following the example that Zdeno Chara, Adam MacQuaid and Brad Marchand set last year with Jordan Caron, the P-Bruins visited patients at the Boston Children’s Hospital on Halloween to enjoy some holiday festivities.
A crew consisting of Caron, Lane MacDermid, Max Sauve, Chris Bourque, Ryan Spooner, Torey Krug, Jared Knight, David Warsofsky, Matt Bartkowski and Ryan Button joined in the fun on Wednesday, going door-to-door not in search of candy, but for smiles. (Via NESN)
Obviously, when it comes to children, the players had to keep their costumes tame, so they couldn’t take a page from Biz Nasty’s playbook and dress like Cockzilla or something of that nature. I’m willing to bet I’m in the right neighborhood. Anyway, the Providence guys kept it clean with their G and PG costumes, but they deserve to be commended for bringing some smiles to the faces of children. After all, it’s more than just the owners, players and fans affected by the lockout.
Here at With Leather, I don't just post any hockey fight. There has to be something special about the fight — like, it has to happen in the first two seconds of the game, or be particularly vicious, or show a close-up of a guy's broken nose, or feature arena employees scraping blood off the ice afterwards.
Or, like this AHL fight between the Chicago Wolves' Nathan Oystrick and Omaha's Brett Palin, all of the above. Enjoy.
Thanks to Tech Still Sucks
