![]() The goalies went toe-to-toe, the coaches screamed unprintable words back and forth at each other across the bench, and blood was spilled. In a game fresh out of 1974, a combined 23 players were tossed from the game for engaging in several melees on the ice. How about the end, where, when the game concluded, the Flyers had seven skaters and a goalie, and the Senators six skaters and a goalie - on the entire squad. What happened? Let’s see… where should we begin? ![]() What happened Friday night was not what he had in mind, but hey, he’ll take it and so will the sell-out crowd who witnessed one of the most memorable games in the history of the Flyers franchise. (It was one of Hitch’s great quips – “Someone is going to make him eat his lunch.”) He had high-sticked Kim Johnsson in the playoffs the season before and the high stick on Recchi certainly appeared blatant and infuriated everyone on the Flyers from the GM’s box on down.)įlyers coach Ken Hitchcock vowed revenge. (It was the second time Havlat had clipped a Flyer in the face with his stick and he was getting a reputation for being a bit too cavalier with it. ![]() Martin Havlat has no one to blame but himself.Īll the guy had to do was keep his stick down when the Flyers last met the Ottawa Senators in Canada’s capital city last month.īut instead, he mistook himself for an Iron Chef and Mark Recchi’s head for a nice pot roast. (This really needed a better headline, but SEO wasn’t really a thing then…) So, I’ve added some more details in bold text that will hopefully paint a fuller picture of that beauty of a hockey game. ![]() The story is OK by my standards – but there’s some stuff that was left out. After the jump is a copy of the story I wrote that night, back when I was just a freelance writer for, which is now ![]()
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