Remebering Hockey's First Brawl (Montreal Gazette)
From the Montreal Gazette:
"It was butchery, not sport, in Westmount"
100 years ago, hockey had its first brawl, as the Ottawa Silver Seven and Montreal Wanderers engaged in a stick-swinging melee that left three players unconscious
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by DAVE STUBBS, The Gazette
Published: Friday, January 12, 2007
It was more a crime scene than an arena, three Montreal-uniformed hockey players clubbed senseless, two left unconscious by the violently swung, heavy sticks of the visiting team.
One hundred years ago tonight at the Westmount Arena, 10 years before the founding of the National Hockey League and 23 months before the birth of the Canadiens, the Ottawa Silver Seven and Montreal Wanderers engaged in what newspaper reports of the day described as the most vicious, despicable battle the fledgling game of organized hockey had seen.
It would be more than eight decades before something remotely this savage would occur again on Montreal ice. But the so-called Good Friday Massacre of 1984 between the Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques - 252 penalty minutes, including 16 fighting majors and 10 game misconducts - was waged only with fists, not lumber, and it didn't spill onto the police blotter.
The brutality of April 20, 1984 erupted in the Forum, at the corner of Ste. Catherine St. and Atwater Ave., a slapshot east from the 6,000-seat Westmount Arena, which opened with huge fanfare on New Year's Eve 1898.
For more, see the complete article at:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=669f52ee-3cdc-4cb2-add6-8c0376be3fbf&k=79396
"It was butchery, not sport, in Westmount"
100 years ago, hockey had its first brawl, as the Ottawa Silver Seven and Montreal Wanderers engaged in a stick-swinging melee that left three players unconscious
Article Tools
by DAVE STUBBS, The Gazette
Published: Friday, January 12, 2007
It was more a crime scene than an arena, three Montreal-uniformed hockey players clubbed senseless, two left unconscious by the violently swung, heavy sticks of the visiting team.
One hundred years ago tonight at the Westmount Arena, 10 years before the founding of the National Hockey League and 23 months before the birth of the Canadiens, the Ottawa Silver Seven and Montreal Wanderers engaged in what newspaper reports of the day described as the most vicious, despicable battle the fledgling game of organized hockey had seen.
It would be more than eight decades before something remotely this savage would occur again on Montreal ice. But the so-called Good Friday Massacre of 1984 between the Canadiens and Quebec Nordiques - 252 penalty minutes, including 16 fighting majors and 10 game misconducts - was waged only with fists, not lumber, and it didn't spill onto the police blotter.
The brutality of April 20, 1984 erupted in the Forum, at the corner of Ste. Catherine St. and Atwater Ave., a slapshot east from the 6,000-seat Westmount Arena, which opened with huge fanfare on New Year's Eve 1898.
For more, see the complete article at:
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/news/sports/story.html?id=669f52ee-3cdc-4cb2-add6-8c0376be3fbf&k=79396
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