If there’s one thing that Ron Hextall wanted to add to this team’s blue line, it’s toughness. And grit. And solid play. OK, so that’s three things. But Hextall drafted Ivan Provorov last year to do just that, and Travis Sanheim the year before.
Last night, those two prospects played against each other in Canada’s Western Hockey League, with Provorov’s Brandon Wheat Kings taking on Sanheim’s Calgary Hitmen in Calgary.
During the game, Provorov leveled Beck Malenstyn of the Hitmen with an awesome, and legal, check.
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Sanheim didn’t take too kindly to the hit, and confronted Provorov. The “fight” became a minor scuffle.
Fun to watch. I’ve already seen jokes about how one of the two will have to be traded since they can’t play together, and jokes about how they’ll look back on this in a few years and laugh while they hoist the cup on the ice at the Wells Fargo Center. So I really don’t have anything witty to add to that.
H/T to Broad Street Hockey, Sons of Penn
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Hail do you fine out all of this informashion this early in the mooring?
I just heared the bell! POP TARTS R READY!
Eh, not exactly legal. Provorov left both his feet as he delivered the check. Charging could/should have been called.
I always chuckle when pundits have players being traded because they had a scuffle. It has NOTHING to do whether ability to play together. What do you this we are talking here NFL ? This is the NHL, where guys loose chicklets in a fight and then go out for a beer later. And then say, “he clocked me good, eh ?”
Charging? Take a close look, it was the contact itself that pushed him up, notably his right foot as the opposing player was lower than he was upon contact. He was gliding (actually slowing down as his right foot was turned inwards, indicating a slight stopping motion), elbow down, stood up his man, no initial contact to head. Great hit!
To anyone who thinks this was charging, wipe your ass with your bare hand and rub it all over your face, then go play badminton.