TOM WRITES: > This started a pier-6 brawl. We had a pro-style fight on the > ice with everybody paired up, gloves dropped and punches being thrown by at > least two pairs. It took a good 5 minutes to break up the fights. The refs > gave two game disqualifications to each team and a game misconduct to a third > for each side. But the only time penalty they called was the elbow giving > Point a 5 on 4 power play at the end of the game. Does this make sense to > anyone? YES, this makes good sense to me. Since it was near the end of the game, if 5 minute penalties for Fighting had been handed out to all those who got disqualification penalties, the elbowing penalty, which I assume was the fight instigation (correct me if I am wrong), would have been lost in the shuffle because the teams would have finished the game 3 on 3, thus the instigating team would have been virtually unpenalized for starting the fight. I think that this situation was handled well by the referree(s). -Ryan Stone Lawrence University (Appleton, WI) '93 Rensselaer '93 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- | RYAN G. STONE | "An individual can make a difference | | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | a team can make a miracle." | | e-mail: [log in to unmask] | - 1980 U.S. Hockey Team | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------