NHL brawl: Two teams come to blows, one player left bleeding
Mia Horton As is the very unusual custom, there has another brawl in an NHL game.
The game between the Colorado Avalanche and Winnipeg Jets, the third of the Stanley Cup Western Conference quarter-finals, ended with both teams coming to blows on the ice.
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Colorado went on to win 6-2 and put the series 2-1 in their favour, with it being a best-of-seven series.
With 27 seconds left, Winnipeg's Adam Lowry and Colorado's Miles Wood began fighting on the ice. Soon after, when the horn sounded, virtually every player on both teams swarmed around and began exchanging blows.
Brenden Dillon suffers injuries
Jets linebacker Brenden Dillon got the worst of it. After falling to the ground, when he got up he was seen leaving for the locker room with one hand over the other. Footage later revealed that he had suffered a deep cut from a skate. Blood was dripping onto the ice.
It is not uncommon to see players drop their sticks and remove their gloves to start having a fist fight in the NHL, something that fans of other sports find very odd.
The referee seems to allow the fight to continue until it has burnt out and then the play resumes, with the outcome having no bearing on the outcome of the game.
