Evan Paul was playing his second game in net for the North Vancouver Wolf Pack when a fight erupted in the third period of his team’s Jan. 25 game against the Richmond Sockeyes at Minoru Arena.

Video of the fight shows Richmond defenceman Eithan Grishin over top of Paul with his arms around the goaltender for close to 20 seconds. When Grishin lets go, Paul slumps to the ice.

Grishin, 19, was (previously) suspended 16 games for incidents earlier this season, according to the PJHL website.

On Nov. 16, he received a 13-game suspension — five games for harassment of an official, three games as supplemental discipline, two games after receiving a game misconduct for being the third man in a fight, and three games as supplemental discipline for being a repeat offender.

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      9 months ago

      How does any of that have anything to do with this guy literally strangling the goalie until unconsciousness?

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        9 months ago

        Because the guy wasn’t responding to that prompt. He was responding to the question:

        Fuck off, how come most sports don’t have fights but hockey players are special like that?

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      9 months ago

      Fights don’t do that, the refs do

      If the rules don’t allow them to protect players then they need to be changed

      The NHL’s problem is that refs are there to keep the games tied so it’s more fun to watch but that issue doesn’t exist here

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      9 months ago

      Agreeing with you for the most part, but e = mc^2 isn’t the relevant equation here. That only works if we’re literally annihilating the players out of existence, which might be worth more than the maximum fine allowed by the NHL Collective Bargaining Agreement. Maybe. More sanguine here would be momentum, which is merely a product of mass and velocity.

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      9 months ago

      There is a video in the article that shows what happened and it had sfa to do with speed.

      Going off topic to justify all the violence that happens in hockey isn’t the argument you think it is.

      Are there times shit happens without intent? Ofc there is. But in this instance that is obviously not the case.

      Watch the video