It took me several moments to come up with any sort of response to what I had just seen. What you see at the start of the fight is Halifax's Kirk Forrest chasing Capitals defenseman Josh McKinnon to the Capitals bench, followed by Halifax's Ben Chaisson going airborne into the bench.
Update: I was asked what the trainer for Summerside did. If you look at the video with about 1:15 left, the trainer looks like he is attempting to prevent the linesman from breaking up things on the bench by punching him. The trainer is yelling something, but I can't understand it. So I'm going to guess he got a 5-game suspension for striking an official.
This is what the suspensions look like, courtesy of MJAHL.com.
Summerside Western Capitals:
Player Number Name Consequence
5 Dan Whalen 1 game suspension
21 Jon Cameron 2 game suspension
60 Stefan Dumaresque 2 game suspension
22 Joel Dyment 3 game suspension
33 Bradley Collicutt 2 game suspension
00 Tim MacPhee 1 game suspension
Trainer B. Gallant 5 game suspension
Head Coach Scott Bridges * 3 game suspension
* Note: Failure to control players.
Halifax Wolverines:
Player Number Name Consequence
7 Kirk Forrest 20 game suspension
8 Ben Chaisson 20 game suspension
14 Jeff Marchand 2 game suspension
33 T. J. Keeping 2 game suspension
Head Coach Tim Boyce ** 3 game suspension
GM Jack Finlay 20 game suspension
GM Jack Finlay $2000 fine
** Note: Player leaving the penalty box.
The suspensions seem to indicate that the majority of the fault lies with the Halifax Wolverines. But all we can see in the video is the fight, and nothing else. What you don't see are the 2 line fights that took place seconds before this one. While many players, especially Chaisson and Forrest, went too far, who knows what transpired before the fight.
In the next week or two I will be trying to talk to members of each organization, to see just what took place, and what each side thinks of what happened.
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The starting goalie was ejected, the backup goalie got hurt, so a defenseman stepped in and played 10 minutes for the Caps and got the win!
And you gotta love that newspapers tag line: "Covers PEI like the dew."
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at November 6, 2007 08:02 AM
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