1987 WJHC - Canada vs Russia brawl

One of the most infamous incidents in WJHC history occurred in 1987 in Piestany, Czechoslovakia where a massive bench clearing brawl between Canada and the Soviet Union led to both teams being disqualified from the tournament. While the Soviets were out of medal contention, Canada was playing for the gold medal, and were leading 4-2 at the time of the brawl. It began when Pavel Kostichkin took a two handed slash at Theoren Fleury beginning the melee. The USSR's Evgeny Davydov was the first player off the bench, leading to both benches clearing. The officials could not break up the fight so they left the ice and eventually tried turning out the arena lights. The brawl lasted for 20 minutes. Afterwards, Soviet hockey official Anatoly Kastriukov claimed a trainer for the Canadian team had fuelled hostilities by coming over to the Soviet bench and pummelling one of their assistant coaches. The Canadians maintained that the Soviets had started the brawl by leaving their bench first. Neither team was allowed to attend the players' banquet at the end of the tournament.

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[yeticowman]

I love how frank the commentators are about this.

[RandomAnimationsInc]

Canada's gonna win tonight at the Olympics !

[ryan112976]

Jesus Christ, how many minutes in before people actually start taking there gloves off? Looked like a bantam fight for a bit there! Lol

[ryan112976]

Jesus Christ, how many minutes in does it go before people actually take there gloves off? Looked like a bantam fight for a bit there! Lol

[TKEMP360]

@ObiWanShinobi1 Thank you, So do I.

[ObiWanShinobi1]

@fiddle1me9this I'm an American being schooled on hockey by a Canadian, I'll always root for the USA first, but I'm acquainted with reality, and root for Canada as soon as USA is eliminated, Don Cherry in the debate/interview following this event was a perfect, perfect capper, making me all the more proud to be neighbors.

[Matthewwoodrow1981]

And in the Olympics USA has only won 2 golds..... Canada has won 8

[Matthewwoodrow1981]

USA has only won gold 2 times ever at the wjhc.... Canada has 15...

[chamtillionaire]

@jw12yrsctch your country has how many more people lmao..this is a hockey video so obviously you like hockey its unfortunate youre american because you guys dont win shit in hockey, but bring up all the other shit that no one cares about on this video and keep praying that one day, the miracle on ice sequal will be made.

[guyatfridge]

Fighting is cool... if you don't like fighting shut the FUCK UP!

[spellbound69]

in the end, the audience is shouting "we want hockey". I think, thats says everything.

[jw12yrsctch]

@hanmerboys for the winter olympics? Alpine events, snowboarding, figure skating, speed skating, bobsled.....the US has solidly beaten Canada in the medal count for the past few winter games....but for the summer games, it's not even close....you want to talk pro sports, we could 9man you in soccer, play 3 on 5 on basketball and win, and football(we made the game and you guys are so bad at it you had to change the rules to play) well don't even try, baseball...nobody cares about that.