History Main / HockeyFight

* One segment on Series/A1000WaysToDie focused on a hockey brawl perpetrated by someone with a temper, and he winds up bleeding to death on the ice when an opponent's blade slices his jugular.

* One segment on Series/AThousandWaysToDie focused on a hockey brawl perpetrated by someone with a temper, and he winds up bleeding to death on the ice when an opponent's blade slices his jugular.

* One segment on Series/1000WaysToDie focused on a hockey brawl perpetrated by someone with a temper, and he winds up bleeding to death on the ice when an opponent's blade slices his jugular.

Compare RugbyIsSlaughter and FootballHooligans.

* Played UpToEleven in the WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short ''WesternAnimation/HockeyHomicide''. For starters, the team captains spend the entire game in the penalty box because they can't stop fighting each other the moment they step onto the ice. The poor referee [[GlassJawReferee keeps getting run over by the players]], to the point that he resorts to wearing a suit of armor. At the climax all hell breaks loose, the sheer chaos intensified by the use of random StockFootage from previous cartoons (even a guest appearance by [[Disney/{{Pinocchio}} Monstro]]). By the end the spectators join in on the melee, while the players sit on the stands watching.

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** A throw-away gag on a later season is a MortalKombat-esque fighting videogame called "Hockey Dads", which features... well, pee-wee hockey player dads beating the crap out of each other (even having a kid player yelling out a plea to his dad to stop since "It's already assault, don't make it murder!". [[ComedicSociopathy The player can choose to press a button to disregard the kid]]).

* Notably, there are only five hockey fights notable enough to merit its own Wikipedia pages: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Flyers-Ottawa_Senators_brawl The Flyers/Senators brawl in 2004]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Massacre the Good Friday Massacre]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Penguins-New_York_Islanders_brawl the Penguins/Islanders brawl in 2011]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Avalanche-Detroit_Red_Wings_brawl the Avalanche/Red Wings brawl in 1997]], and the aformentioned Punch-up in Piestany.

* Notably, there are only five hockey fights notable enough to merit its own Wikipedia pages: [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_Flyers%E2%80%93Ottawa_Senators_brawl The Flyers/Senators brawl in 2004]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday_Massacre the Good Friday Massacre]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittsburgh_Penguins%E2%80%93New_York_Islanders_brawl the Penguins/Islanders brawl in 2011]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_Avalanche%E2%80%93Detroit_Red_Wings_brawl the Avalanche/Red Wings brawl in 1997]], and the aformentioned Punch-up in Piestany.

* It would be simply impractical to list ''all'' the hockey fights that have gone on in the sport's history, but one must note the notorious [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punch-up_in_Piestany Punch-up in Piestany]], a bench-clearing brawl between the Canadian and Soviet teams during the 1987 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, which lasted for 20 minutes, forcing the officials to turn off the arena lights to try to stop the fight, and resulted in the game being voided and both teams disqualified from the championship, which cost Canada a guaranteed bronze medal and possibly better[[note]]They had to beat the USSR for silver, and score four goals more than the USSR to get gold. The USSR was already eliminated from contention.[[/note]]

--> ''"I went to a fight one night, and a hockey game broke out."'' - RodneyDangerfield

** An early scene of ''Networth'' has Detroit Red Wings' Ted Lindsay and Toronto Maple Leafs' Jimmy Thomson getting into a lengthy and brutal fight on the ice. However, they later team up to fight the real enemy: the [[NationalHockeyLeague NHL's]] corrupt management. The film's {{tagline}} even references this: "The bloodiest fight in the NHL wasn't on the ice."

* A ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' ParodyCommercial for Buddweiser [sic] stars guest host Creator/RobinWilliams and cast member Joe Piscopo as rival hockey players; Piscopo gives Williams an uppercut with his stick during the opening puck drop*, and it escalates from there.

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* The arcade game ''Blades of Steel'' (later ported to the NintendoEntertainmentSystem) was one of the first hockey video games to feature fighting, and the ''loser'' gets sent to the penalty box. The arcade game had a giant red "FIGHT" button in the middle of the controls (much larger than the two standard-sized buttons used for passing and shooting), and there's also a fight depicted on the home version's ''box art''.
* Another hockey game for the NintendoEntertainmentSystem, simply dubbed ''Ice Hockey'', likewise could have fights break out. This happens when two characters fight too much for control of the puck. A huge melee breaks out and whoever lost the fight (the winner is the player who pressed the A button more often) gets sent to the penalty box.

* In the ''{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the, er, [[CanadaEh Acerian]] immigrant Antoinette de Badin-Boucher arrives in Ankh-Morpork as a student at the assassins' School, to discover to her disgust that while the weather might get cold and wet, it very rarely gets cold and wet enough for ''proper'' hockey. The version played running around a cold muddy field without ice skates on is not to her taste or inclination. She fears the ice-skates and protective clothing she has brought with her are going to be useless baggage. Then she discovers the Pork Futures Warehouse and regularly breaks in to practice ''real'' hockey and skating. Scroll forward by ten years and she is a graduate and a teaching assistant at the School. By [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/3/Gap-Year-Adventures this story]], she has worked out a deal with the PFW's owners to use a hitherto wasted space for recreation. Fellow Acerians and, er, [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Swommi people]] flock to pay for admission. Both to particpate in, or to spectate, mass brawls on ice with lots of applied violence, and perhaps a little actual hockey in between fights. Thus, with a sort of Canadian-like people in town, Ankh-Morpork gets its first dedicated ice-hockey and skating venue.

* In the ''{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, the, er, [[CanadaEh Acerian]] immigrant Antoinette de Badin-Boucher arrives in Ankh-Morpork as a student at the assassins' School, to discover to her disgust that while the weather might get cold and wet, it very rarely gets cold and wet enough for ''proper'' hockey. The version played running around a cold muddy field without ice skates on is not to her taste or inclination. She fears the ice-skates and protective clothing she has brought with her are going to be useless baggage. Then she discovers the Pork Futures Warehouse and regularly breaks in to practice ''real'' hockey and skating. Scroll forward by ten years and she is a graduate and a teaching assistant at the School. By [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12321109/3/Gap-Year-Adventures this story]], she has worked out a deal with the PFW's owners to use a hitherto wasted space for recreation. Fellow Acerians and, er, [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Swommi people]] flock to pay for admission. Both to particpate in, or to spectate, mass brawls on ice with lots of applied violence, and perhaps a little actual hockey in between fights. Thus, with a sort of Canadian-like people in town, Ankh-Morpork gets its first dedicated ice-hockey and skating venue.

** ''The Rocket'', about legendary Montreal Canadiens player Maurice Richard, has the New York Rangers bring up a minor league tough guy specifically to take out Richard. It fails when Richard delivers a CurbStompBattle.

* Hilariously lampshaded in the [[Film/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesIII third Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie]]. While the honor guards watch a hockey game on TV, Casey decides to get them to play for a bit. The guys are confused, so Casey tells them to do "Just like [you] watched it on TV." They procede to beat the crap out of each other, and Casey says "I'll roll with that".

Tends to be more of an American trope than Canadian, as many Canadian programs focus more on the beauty, patriotism and romance of the sport, and any violence will be used a a plot point.

* Referenced in {{Animorphs}}, where Marco says of BloodKnight Rachel that if they were a hockey team, she'd be the goon, always looking for a fight.