Throwdown Lowdown – Blackhawks @ Blues 12-28-10
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As anticipated, the Blues and Nashville Predators did not throw down the gloves in Sunday night’s 2-0 Blues win, marking four straight games in which The Note has not fought. I’m getting ANTSY here! So we keep seeing a downward slide in the fighting major standings. The Blues have still fought 34 times, and that is currently good for a tie for third place with the New York Rangers. Their fight record remains at a cool 16-10-8.
So the Blues’ tour of non-pugilistic opponents continues tonight with the Chicago Blackhawks, although out of all the teams on said tour, this might be the punchiest. We’ve covered Chicago three times on the season (October 18th, October 22nd and November 30th). This team isn’t BAD at fighting, per se, but they are middle-of-the-pack at best – currently they are in a tie for 16th with the Ottawa Senators with 19 fighting majors on the season. Six of these fights have been against the Blues, which is good to know. Their record in those fights is relatively impressive – a cool 8-4-7, with a 2-2-2 record in fights against the Blues.
13 of the 19 fights and ALL eight wins come from the top two fighters: Jacob Dowell (6’0”, 199lbs, 2-2-3 including a loss to BJ Crombeen) with seven and the massive John Scott (6’8”, 258lbs, 6-0-0 including wins over Brad Winchester and Cam Janssen) with six. Nick Boynton (6’1”, 218lbs, 0-1-1 including a loss to Crombeen) is the only other multiple fighter with two. Solo-fight men include Bryan Bickell (6’4”, 223lbs, a draw with David Backes), Jack Skille (6’1”, 215lbs, Draw), Jeremy Morin (6’1”, 190lbs, a draw with Chris Porter, currently playing for Team USA in the WJC’s) and Troy Brouwer (6’2”, 214lbs, Loss).
So despite their unwillingness to drop the gloves, it is very fair to assume that there would be one or several fights in this game. If ANYONE is to fight with Scott, it ought to be Winchester, who handed Scott his most recent loss last season. Dowell would be a good matchup for Janssen, and Boynton has already fought with Crombeen once, so we’ll see if that ends up being a rematch.
Make it four in a row, home team.
LET’S GO BLUES!!!!!
Information obtained via the incomparable Fried Chicken’s Hockey Fights
