North Dakota hockey player spazzes out in handshake line
Hockey’s post game/series handshake line is one of sports’ biggest displays of sportsmanship going. Teams beat each other’s face in for 60 minutes and then put the animosity aside for a couple minutes to acknowledge their opponent. North Dakota Fighting Sioux senior defenseman Ben Blood didn’t get the handshake memo.
Following the North Dakota-Minnesota tilt Saturday, a game in which Minnesota won 6-2, Blood took out a bit of frustration out on Minnesota freshman winger Kyle Rau during the handshake line. After Rau went flying, his teammate, fellow freshman Seth Ambroz tied up Blood before things escalated. As the third period buzzer expired, Blood and Ambroz that had to be separated. Blood was apparently reacting to Rau coming off the bench and hacking him in the back of the leg toward the end of the game.
Both coaches took their players off the ice and the line was ceased after the incident. Chalk it up as another display of boys being boys and traditions schmaditions.
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Why is this news? Now if you went to a fight and a hockey game broke out, then that's news.
Not the first time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og1LqrLcAIs
Still waiting for a spazz out…
I agree with Anonymous, why don't they just call it ice fighting. What other sport is fighting so condoned and actually part of the game. In football, you take a huge hit and you jog back to the huddle or if you retaliate, you are kicked out of the game. Hockey is a ridiculous sport because of the fighting aspect.
Agree 100%
Obviously you know nothing of hockey. You can't even compare hockey players to the ignorant animals in the NFL. Hockey players overall are much more educated and are often referred to as the sport with the nicest players.
Who's the idiot who writes this? Those of you who care to know the real story…Rau trying to be a part of something bigger than him. After the game, trips Blood as he is skating backward to his team after a confrontation with Ambroz. Little guy needs to get his bell rung.
Second paragraph, last sentence. Thanks for the namecalling though.
Sounds like you lost. Am I reading that correctly?
Not surprising that the NoDak fan omits that Blood took a completely unnecessary slapshot at a Gopher player as time expired. Plus Blood tries to go after a guy half his size and ends up on the bitch side of a headlock. Easier to find oil in North Dakota than class.
Every time someone takes a huge hit in football, someone gets fined or suspended. National Flag Football League.
Sure, because football players that get into fights are animals, but hockey players that fight aren't animals. I see the difference now. Glad we cleared that up.
I watched the game live as it happened … after the 3rd period expired, Blood an Ambroz (big guys) got together for a little conversation, NBD. As these two were seperated and Blood was skating backwards towards the UND bench, Rau (little guy) comes off the Gopher bench and trips Blood from behind. Rau should get his clock cleaned for sticking his nose in and for the cheap shot. The UNDSN has good video of the events prior to the handshake incident. By no means am I condoning what Blood did, but Rau was the instigator.
LOL, it was hockey…no ones cares
And yet you watched the video