Tale of the Tape - S49, Game 24 - Lethbridge Lions vs St. Louis Scarecrows
Tonight we saw Blake Pheonix from St. Louis and Johnny Patey from Lethbridge drop their mitts. Overall it was a rather uninspiring fight, the 2 circled each other in the Lethbridge zone for about 10 seconds. They each had a small flurry of punches thrown at each other when the linesmen moved in to break them up, and ended up in an awkward hugging-wrestling match. Only gloves and sticks were on the ice, no player was able to get the other's helmet off and it didn't look like there was much of an attempt to do so. The two broke it up, made their way to the penalty box and were seen shaking hands afterwords.
No animosity, no hatred, just 2 guys doing their jobs. The game was already well in hand for St. Louis at the time of the fight, so it was more just to have one for the stat books rather than an attempt to rally up their teams, or payback from an earlier play.