Philadelphia Flyers vs Ottawa Senators Brawl (HD) - March 5th 2004 (NHL Classic)

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PHILADELPHIA -- [ March 5th 2004 ] For one night, the Philadelphia Flyers turned back into the Broad Street Bullies.

"We're not scared of Ottawa and we're not intimidated by their talent," Flyers goaltender Robert Esche said.

Officials needed about 90 minutes after the game ended to sort the penalties. The previous record for penalty minutes was 406 by the Minnesota North Stars and Boston Bruins in 1981. The Flyers had 213 minutes and Ottawa had 206.

After the game, Philadelphia general manager Bob Clarke, captain of the Broad Street Bullies teams of the 1970s, went toward Ottawa's dressing room, but was stopped by Flyers officials.

"Their tough guy (Rob Ray) got beat up and then their next two lines fought guys who don't fight," Flyers coach Ken Hitchcock said. "I don't care what it shows them. We played a great game."

Philadelphia enforcer Donald Brashear and Ray started the fighting by dropping their gloves with 1:45 left. As they skated off the ice, the rest of the players joined in, including the goalies as Ottawa's Patrick Lalime skated the length of the ice to go after Esche.

Once play resumed, all the players, except the new goalies, immediately went after each other. At the next faceoff, Philadelphia's Michal Handzus and Ottawa's Mike Fisher went at it. Another fight broke out 30 seconds later. Finally, Philadelphia's Patrick Sharp and Ottawa's Jason Spezza finished it off.

The bad blood between the teams stems from Senators forward Martin Havlat hitting Recchi in the face with his stick in a game last week. Havlat played his first game after being suspended two games by the NHL. He sat in the penalty box while the fights took place.

"Why wouldn't I start it? Did you see the last game?" Brashear said. "I fought a tough guy. They went after guys who don't fight. I could've fought one of their good players and hurt them, but I didn't."

"It wasn't a great game, but our guys stood up there," Senators defenseman Wade Redden said.

The game ended with an NHL record 419 penalty minutes, and an NHL record 20 players were ejected, leaving five players on the team benches. The officials took more than 90 minutes to sort out the penalties that each team had received.

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[Treety1791]

True story tho.

[ImNotThePro]

i almost threw my laptop out the window cause of your pic

[sexykentimeyo]

broad street bullies II ftw penalty minutes in a game record holders :)

[Devin Nau]

Awesome fights

[sk8trdudenoob]

My favorite thing about hockey is when this happens.

[dbn52]

have you noticed that the Sens are in a lot of these? I thought it was odd that the Flyers are know for this and I see 2 of the biggest have the Sens in them. Thanks for taking care of Montreal. Go Hawks

[CBabeey]

haha chara

[GhostSpectre]

This was in Philadelphia, no?

[eliiceman1962]

Nice to see Philly kick some butt north of the boarder.

[eliiceman1962]

Great fight. Brashear draws first blood LOVE IT!

[iMunchingFruits]

AHAHAH ONLY IF IT WERE SENS AND LEAFS LEAFS ALL THE WAY

THAT WAS HILARIOUS