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Originally Posted by Itse
Yeah obviously it's theoretically possible.
But considering how rare those events are, I think it's pretty unlikely one would go unnoticed and unremembered by people who actively try to track them.
Further than that, because of their obvious rarity and because you obviously can't know what you're actually talking about because you're too young to remember those days, it's ridiculous to suggest that "in the good days" things would have gone the way you suggested, which is a mid-game bench clearing brawl.
(Btw, here's the Calgary-Toronto brawl from 1996, as I'm sure some are curious. It's a post-game brawl.)
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Ok, but there have been instances beyond this in which players have left the bench, but was not a "bench clearing" brawl:
http://www.dailyfaceoff.com/30914/ma...-to-suspension
http://www.thescore.com/nhl/news/114...-leaving-bench
http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2011/09..._n_984138.html
https://www.nhl.com/news/clowe-suspe...bench/c-657415
http://www.espn.com/nhl/playoffs2007...ory?id=2891998
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2001: Pronger was suspended without pay for one game after leaving the bench and instigating a fight with the Kings' Kelly Buchberger during an Oct. 11, 2000 game. Blues winger Pavol Demitra suffered a broken nose when Buchberger hit him with an elbow during the second period. That hit provoked Pronger to leave the bench.
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Ok, maybe I exaggerated the once-a-season line brawl. But certainly there was more fights and usually involving the whole line. When we witnessed the Nyquist-Spurg scrum, there wasn't many fights. 20 years ago it would be 3 different matches taking place or maybe even 5 different matches. Maybe only a few guys comes off the bench. There was certainly more glove dropping over these events, which was the basis of my argument with the original rebuttal.
And I never once suggested that this event would have resulted in a line brawl.