Friday night’s 7-0 loss to the Washington Capitals was a tough game for the Philadelphia Flyers. It was marred by an ugly incident, a line brawl which featured Flyers goalie Ray Emery leaving his crease and pummeling Washington netminder Braden Holtby, who already stated he did not want to fight.
Emery pummeled him anyway.
"I said basically, ‘protect yourself,’” Emery explained to Frank Seravalli of the Philadelphia Daily News. “He didn’t really have much of a choice.”
The game was a disgrace for the Flyers, and to almost everyone not wearing a Flyers uniform, the fight was an even bigger disgrace.
There was plenty of negative fallout from this incident to be sure—and not just negative articles in the press.
Two Flyers players were injured, as Vincent Lecavalier suffered a facial contusion and had to sit out Saturday’s game while newly acquired Steve Downie suffered a concussion and was hospitalized as a result of his fight with Washington's Aaron Volpatti.
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