Your local ECHL (that's like AA ball level) hockey team, the Gwinnett Gladiators, haven't been playing so hot - they're 0-9-1 in their last 10 games. When hockey teams don't play well, sometimes they get frustrated. And when they get frustrated, they hit things. Like the other team.
↵Goalie fights don't happen much because there's usually a 2 minute penalty for leaving the crease if you do, on top of the 5 minutes for fighting each guy'll get, but apparently the Glalds were ticked off enough that they just didn't care. Witness the Gladiators' Billy Sauer and the Everblades' Bobby Goepfert going at it like two little Stay Puft Marshmallow Men.
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