Fighting through the Playoffs: Kris Letang vs. Darroll Powe

by JDunman on Apr 21, 2009 10:00 AM EDT in Fights

This one may be a little confusing at first watch, so I'll try to guide you through it. Before you start, though, you may want to mute the sound, as the NBC commentary on this video is horrible. The sound quality's fine, but the words flowing freely are simply awful.

When play stops, we cut over to a dropping of gloves between Tyler Kennedy and Claude Giroux in which punches are exchanged before Kennedy slips, bringing Giroux down on top of him. That is what I assumed I was looking for, until I realized that the called fight was between Kris Letang and Darroll Powe. You have to watch further into the video for that one, and be sure to look closely. See Letang and Powe bump into each other, shove, then quickly get pulled apart by the linesmen? That's what got called for a fight.

So the roughing gets called for a fight and the fight gets called for roughing. I'm not quite sure how that works, but for what it was, Letang and Powe got a draw. What else would you call it?

Poll

Who won the fight?

Kris Letang

39 votes

Darroll Powe

73 votes

Draw

19 votes

How was Kennedy/Giroux not a fight?

174 votes

305 votes | Poll has closed

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What's especially frustrating is...

The roughing call took away the Gordie Howe hat trick for Giroux.

by Geoff Detweiler on Apr 21, 2009 10:19 AM EDT reply actions

Yeah. I guess if we’re going to lose a game we might as well watch a player do something fun with the win.

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by FrankD on Apr 21, 2009 10:54 AM EDT up reply actions

the commentary is quite fine in MHO. I am a Pens fan stuck in Flyers Country and any opportunity to watch a Pens/Flyers game without hearing the Flyers Commentators is more than welcome, even if it’s NBC garbage. I love Comcast! -Jerks

by tehchico on Apr 21, 2009 10:36 AM EDT reply actions

as a flyers fan in pens country i can feel your pain…nbc’s commentators are certainly an upgrade to listening to the pens announcers for me. it is funny to listen to the pens announcers talk about hartnell though… i mean the guy is annoying and takes some stupid penalties by doing stupid things, but the pens announcers seem to think that he is evil personified.

by phillyfan14 on May 12, 2009 11:07 PM EDT up reply actions

hah, first time i saw this i thought they confused the players, since kennedy and letangs numbers both end in 8. but now i see the letang fight…. this is just silly.

by jetpen89 on Apr 21, 2009 11:58 AM EDT reply actions

Who was the joker trying to strangle Geno?

Real classy, he’s well known around the league as a big fighter…

go pens!

by cyroose on Apr 21, 2009 1:26 PM EDT reply actions

If you watch again, Malkin put Giroux in a headlock first. Then Alberts came over and returned the favor.

by Geoff Detweiler on Apr 21, 2009 1:42 PM EDT up reply actions

The Flyers have been tackling Malkin this entire series. If they’re not gonna call those then I’m at least happy they are being consistent and not calling them on him too.

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by FrankD on Apr 21, 2009 1:47 PM EDT up reply actions

I’m not complaining about that scuffle at all. I’m just showing that Geno strangling Giroux first deserves the same “Real classy, Geno, Claude’s well known around the league as a big fighter…” as the original complaint.

Without getting into a tit-for-tat debate on every non-call going both ways, consistency is what is necessary. If you call one, call the other. If you let one go, let the other one go.

by Geoff Detweiler on Apr 21, 2009 3:01 PM EDT up reply actions