I went to a boxing match and ... oh, never mind.
The Vancouver Canucks hosted the Calgary Flames on Saturday night, and their NHL contest broke out in a line brawl at the opening face-off at Rogers Arena. In all there were 152 penalty minutes whistled—and the pleasantries all began at center ice between a pair of NCAA graduates.
Calgary's
Kevin Westgarth (Princeton) faced off with Vancouver's Kevin Bieksa (Bowling
Green), who moved up from the blueline to take the inaugural draw after trading
words with Westgarth prior to the puck drop. (Bieksa won the draw, by the way,
according to the Vancouver Sun.)
Nine
players were ejected when all was said and done. Vancouver ultimately won, 3-2,
in a shootout.
Westgarth
played at Princeton from 2003 to 2007, where he tallied 47 points and 76 PIM
over his last two campaigns with the Tigers. Bieksa was at BGSU from 2000 to 2004 and
accumulated 75 points and 316 PIM in four seasons with the Falcons, according
to hockeydb.com.
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