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 disq...
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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Whoa... I will never underestimate Canadians, ever. If something like that ever happened in America, people would be sued out of their homes. Lol, we're such big pussies sometimes. (Well, all the time now, considering how little of a backbone our new President has.)
Are the Russiana crazy, they are losing the tournament and they think they can win in the alley? Come one we should have made it fair and had Fleury take them all on-the fights might have been closer. TURN OUT THE LIGHTS GRANDMA THE KIDS ARE WATCHING THIS.
Like you did in 1972, when your elite team took on a bunch of out of shape Canadian hockey players and lost? But to be fair, that took place over thirty years ago, so maybe things have changed. Let's check wikipedia and see if Canada has started sucking at the WJHCs. "The 2009 event took place in Ottawa, Canada with Canada winning the tournament for the fifth straight year." Hm...guess not.
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u r a fag