The Lightning Love To Drop The Gloves

Just as I promised to get up the goals that the Lightning score from most games, I am also going to try and give you guys the pleasure of watching our brawlers drop the gloves.  Any regular reader of this site knows that me and my brother love the tough nature this team has displayed thusfar, and with that toughness comes the need to beat down opposing teams occasionally.

These 3 fights were from the game vs the Edmonton Oilers last week.  Enjoy. You’re going to have to double click on the first and last fights here, because I can’t get them resized to fit our screen correctly.

First fight is our favorite dropper of the gloves, Zenon Konopka.  He has a hard time with Zack Stortini at first due to the sheer size difference, but anyone who has watched Zenon knows, he will not give up in a fight, and ends up getting some nice clean shots in on Zack.

The 2nd battle between Ryan Stone and and Steve Downie could almost have the exact same description as Zenon’s fight.  Downie is overmatched size wise, but refuses to give up and lands some good shots.

The last fight is classic, because Stone and Downie almost went at it again, and Zenon and Stortini ended up fighting for a 2nd time.  The refs barely broke up the Downie tussle, but Konopka told the refs to back off, took his helmet off, then bodied up Stortini taking him to the ice and raising his fist over Stortini’s face, ala Zdeno Chara over Vinny 4 a few  years ago.  He could have crushed in Stortini’s head, but then he wouldn’t be around to fight every night like the Lightning need him to!!!