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Hockey Fight
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A work of fiction involving the characters playing or attending a hockey game will see a fight break out. It's most commonly seen in Ice Hockey, to the point where that's all many people even know about hockey. It's Truth in Television, but it's kind of a complicated trope. American works will tend to portray a hockey game as an excuse to find an opponent and beat the crap out of him without any real consequences for your team. Canadian portrayals, being very close to the sport, tend to show it for how Canadians see it: a very ritualistic aspect of the game, almost akin to an honour duel, where a team's designated "enforcer" stands up for his teammates by challenging anyone who takes liberties with them to some Good Old Fisticuffs. Fighting is considered almost an anachronism in this day and age; it's tolerated at the absolute highest levels like the National Hockey League but considered unsportsmanlike at lower levels, especially in the youth ranks, where combatants can face expulsion and suspension. Works set in The '70s or The '80s are more likely to show hockey violence because fighting really was much more prevalent back then, including total melees involving everyone on both sides just punching each other. The ritualistic aspect of hockey fighting is such that using any weapons such as your stick or skates is highly frowned upon — you can punch or grapple, and that's it. Combatants are expected to remove their gloves (which are not designed to cushion punches like boxing gloves) and fight bare-knuckled. Combatants are even often expected to remove their helmets, to allow your opponent to more easily punch you in the face. Even the technique is a ritual; because it's so difficult to keep your balance when fighting on skates, combatants tend to grab their opponent's jersey with one hand and punch with the other. The bare-knuckle aspect of it has led to the term "dropping the gloves" being a shorthand for fighting in hockey, and dramatically throwing them off your hands as you face your opponent is the hockey equivalent of Throwing Down the Gauntlet. Compare Rugby Is Slaughter (a game where even playing properly leads to violence) and Football Hooligans (a game where the fans do all the fighting). Expect some Teeth Flying; a significant number of hockey players are missing teeth. |
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Hellcats & Hockey Sticks is essentially St. Trinian's with the Serial Numbers Filed Off, and so naturally the hockey team are the designated muscle. | |
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On Bones, a murder suspect won't voluntarily give a DNA sample, and they can't get a warrant — so when Booth discovers that they play hockey in the same amateur league, Booth starts a fight in order to get the suspect's blood. Later, when discussing fighting, he shows off a video clip of a mate sustaining a broken arm in a hockey fight — and immediately concludes that the fall alone couldn't explain the break he got. It turns out he has a rare form of vicious bone cancer. | |
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CSI: NY has one in the episode "Reignited": the NYPD and FDNY are playing a charity game, where a fight breaks out after the game ends, started by one of the FDNY players (whose team won). | |
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Several episodes of The Simpsons showcase hockey games that devolve into brutal fights, either on the ice or in the stands. At the end of "Lisa on Ice", Bart refuses to take a penalty shot on Lisa, and their game ends in a tie. The fans are utterly disappointed and decide they won't leave without a fight. A later season throwaway gag features a Mortal Kombat-esque Fighting Game called Hockey Dads, which involves fights not between the players, who are just pee-wee aged, but between the fans, who are all hockey dads. The kids even plead for their dads to stop, and there's a button command to ignore them. |
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Keep Your Head Up: The Don Cherry Story, a biopic of the colourful Hockey Night in Canada commentator, begins with his career as a minor-league tough guy, which naturally includes many fights — including one right before meeting his fiancée's parents. | |
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In Animalympics, ice hockey is literally depicted as war, complete with explosions. It also depicts field hockey; it's not as rough, but a referee does get Squashed Flat when he gets body-slammed between two players. | |
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In Happy Gilmore, the title character is a frustrated wannabe hockey player — he has a powerful slapshot, but no skating or stickhandling ability. He mentions that he set his league's penalty minutes record. He parlays that into a Bizarre and Improbable Golf Game (using a hockey stick instead of a golf club) and tries his "grab shirt and punch head" technique on Bob Barker (which backfires). | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, the Acerian immigrant Antoinette de Badin-Boucher arrives in Ankh-Morpork as a student at the assassins' school and is so obsessed with hockey that she sets up a rink in the Pork Futures Warehouse. Ten years later, it's an official hockey venue, and she invites fellow Acerians (and Swommi people) to come play there. Most of the games involve fighting, with a little hockey in between. It certainly suits the paying customers in Ankh-Morpork in any event. | |
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Slap Shot is the seminal example of a hockey fighting movie: A down-on-its-luck hockey team in a Pennsylvania mining town hires three brothers who do nothing but beat the shit out of their opponents, and it not only helps the team win, but it drums up fan interest and saves them from folding. The Big Game at the end sees an Opposing Sports Team made up of the most brutal players they could find (some of whom had been banned from the sport for unelaborated reasons), and the whole thing devolves into a bloody riot on the ice (and a striptease). The film was made in The '70s and shows the trope as it was seen then, with frequent "line brawls" and bench-clearing melees, fighting during the breaks, fighting before the game even starts,note One of the funniest images of the film is the Hansen brothers standing solemnly for the national anthem with their faces spattered with blood the entire team (save the one skill-guy) totally okay with joining in the fighting, and no real discussion as to whether that much fighting degrades the game — and when they refer to "old-time hockey", you wonder what kind of violence they grew up with. | |
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A later season throwaway gag features a Mortal Kombat-esque Fighting Game called Hockey Dads, which involves fights not between the players, who are just pee-wee aged, but between the fans, who are all hockey dads. The kids even plead for their dads to stop, and there's a button command to ignore them. | |
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In Canadian Bacon, the fight at the hockey game starts when visiting Americans insult the Canadian beer, driving both teams into the stands to pummel the Americans. | |
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Speaking of Disney and hockey, the Mighty Ducks avert it. They don't fight on the ice — they fight off the ice instead; it helps they all came from a hockey-obsessed planet and therefore not only fought in a resistance movement, but also fire explosive pucks at their enemies. | |
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One episode of Warehouse 13 has the team investigate a hockey player who is somehow able to heal instantly from the many would-be career-ending injuries he has sustained during games. He mostly uses this skill to fight. | |
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On Murdoch Mysteries, Detective Murdoch is investigating a hockey player's murder, and Dr. Grace concludes that the murder weapon must have been a hockey stick (use of which is a big no-no in "real" hockey fighting). They test all the sticks to see if they have blood on them — and it turns out they all do. | |
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Referenced in Animorphs, where Marco says of Blood Knight Rachel that if they were a hockey team, she'd be the goon, always looking for a fight. | |
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A segment on 1000 Ways to Die focuses on a hockey player with a nasty temper starting a fight and accidentally getting his neck sliced by a skate blade, severing his jugular and causing him to bleed to death. | |
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The Tooth Fairy is about a hockey player nicknamed "the Tooth Fairy" because he specializes in knocking people's teeth out. This is how he ends up being sentenced to being a real tooth fairy for a week. | |
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The Goofy short Hockey Homicide. For starters, the team captains spend the entire game in the penalty box because they can't stop fighting each other the moment they step onto the ice. The poor referee keeps getting run over by the players, to the point that he resorts to wearing a suit of armor. At the climax, all hell breaks loose, the sheer chaos intensified by the use of random Stock Footage from previous cartoons (even a guest appearance by Monstro). By the end, the spectators join in on the melee, while the players sit in the stands watching. Speaking of Disney and hockey, the Mighty Ducks avert it. They don't fight on the ice — they fight off the ice instead; it helps they all came from a hockey-obsessed planet and therefore not only fought in a resistance movement, but also fire explosive pucks at their enemies. |
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In an episode of Due South, a videotape of a hockey game where a fight broke out it an important clue — Fraser and Ray bring it to a friend of Fraser's, who can (somehow) determine which seat a particular fan was in. | |
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Himeko of SKET Dance uses a (field) hockey stick as her signature weapon. | |
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A Saturday Night Live Parody Commercial for Buddweiser (sic) stars Joe Piscopo and guest host Robin Williams as rival hockey players; Piscopo attacks Williams with his stick during the opening puck drop, and it escalates from there. | |
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In the CSI episode "Primum Non Nocere", a fight at an amateur hockey game leads to a pileup, and the player at the bottom is found dead with a slash on his throat. Then it turns out that that wasn't what killed him; it was a drug given to him by the team doctor. | |
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Adam Dudley of Kengan Ashura learned to fight from being a former professional hockey player prone to brawling. His ability to throw solid punches despite being on uneven footing is considered one of his greatest strengths. | |
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In Four Brothers, oldest brother Bobby Mercer earned the nickname "The Michigan Mauler" during his days in the minor leagues, and several of his fights are shown in the ending credits. He was missing quite a few teeth in those shots, too. | |
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DSBT InsaniT: An AIR Hockey Fight to be more precise, between Alex, Seth, and their Darkness counterparts in 'VRcade'. | |
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In Strange Brew, the inmates at the insane asylum connected to the brewery play hockey games that are directed by musical cues to become all-out brawls, something Bob and Doug have a lot of fun with when they stumble upon it. It turns out to be a major plot point, as the inmates have been fed beer laced with mind-control drugs. | |
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The 2007 remake also has a hockey match, though this time they play fair and start getting ahead... At which point the other team starts fouling and is quickly overpowered. | |
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In a Thanksgiving episode of Friends, Ross and Joey had promised they would come to Monica's Thanksgiving celebration, but they also have Rangers tickets and want to see the game. They agree to leave the game before it finishes, but it turns out to be exciting, and they start rationalizing that they'll leave after the next goal — or the next fight. | |
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