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20 years since NHL s record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere

There have been 219 fights this season through Monday with 63 more projected before the playoffs begin for a total of 282, which would be a sharp drop from the 789 in 2003-04. That is a 200% decrease over 20 years and significantly down from 645 as recently as 2010-11.

20 years since NHL s record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere

Twenty years ago, the Philadelphia Flyers and Ottawa Senators set the NHL record for penalty minutes in a brawl-filled game. Since then, fighting has evolved to the point of being

20 years since NHL s record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere

Minnesota's Marcus Foligno took a hit, delivered one of his own to Chicago's Jarred Tinordi, and the two big guys dropped the gloves. Outdoors in front of 82,000 people in the Meadowlands, it took even less for Matt Rempe and Matt Martin to spice up the Rangers-Islanders showdown with a fight. When Morgan Rielly cross-checked Ridly Greig for firing a slap shot into an empty net? “How there wasn’t a brawl there, I don’t know how everyone didn’t start fighting,” wondered Todd Simpson, a 50-year-old retired player who piled up more than 1,300 penalty minutes in 580 NHL games.

20 years since NHL s record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere

20 years since NHL s record-setting brawl, fighting is down across the league but not going anywhere
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