A couple of observations on this fight that Awful Announcing linked up today:
1. One of the golden rules in hockey is you don’t touch the other team’s goalie. Even if its just a stick to the glove after the whistle, rarely do you get away without a face wash or a stick to the shin.
When you blow one up with a 10-stride head start, like this guy from Corpus Christi did, you get the fists…and tons of them.
2. I often get as excited as the announcer did in anticipation of a goalie fight, but it was quite uneventful. This was not a good goalie fight. At all. It’s hard to throw punches in all that gear, but it can certainly be done. See Exhibit A.
3. WTF is a mee-lay?
4. As a fellow goalie myself, “That’ll teach you to run Ken Caroll!”
UPDATE: HOLY SHIT! I just watched the video again…check out how many tomahawk chops Caroll lays on the Corpus Christi player before the other goalie shows up. Rock on!
