MONTREAL (AP) - Police officials said they had begun an investigation of the pregame brawl between the Flyers and the Canadiens that could lead to criminal charges. There's no place for this in the National Hockey League.'' We don't need this. They were Hospodar, Dave Brown, Rick Tocchet, Don Nachbaur and Daryl Stanley of Philadelphia, and Corson, Chris Nilan, Larry Robinson and Mike McPhee of Montreal.The fines come a year after the league had fined the Canadiens and the Calgary Flames $42,000 for fights that took place immediately following Game 4 of the final series.The latest incident began as a Flyer response to what was perceived as an irritating Montreal ritual at the end of the warm-ups, and quickly escalated into a series of fights in different areas of the rink at The Forum.
Those fines covered 36 players.Four players - Hospodar and Glenn Resch of the Flyers, plus Claude Lemieux and Corson of Montreal - were fined an extra $500 for creating the sequence that led to the start of the incident.
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Our Stanley Cup predictions are here5 questions on Flyers' chances in 24-team tournament3 keys to Flyers beating Canadiens and a series predictionA look at Flyers-Canadiens schedule with different aspects to noteHow sweep it is — Flyers run through round robin, earn East's No. A vicious, bloody brawl involving most of the players from the Canadiens and Philadelphia Flyers preceded last night's Game 6 of the Wales Conference final. They also acquired Derek Grant and Nate Thompson at the Feb. 24 trade deadline, with Thompson coming from Montreal.Having Nate, a veteran player that is such a pro in the way he prepares himself, the way he competes, the way he is with his teammates, a real good teammate — that’s his first and foremost value with him, he comes to play and he plays hard. In hockey, one of the unwritten rules is to not cross center ice during pregame warmups but the Canadiens had their own ideas. On the other side of things, the Coyotes struggled on the penalty kill (71.4%) — that is the third worst since the NHL returned to play. "So what the Flyers' forward lines look like to start Game 1:The time has finally arrived — the first round of the Stanley Cup playoffs are here and you can just feel the excitement in the air.
The defending Stanley Cup champions are ready to fight and defend their title, but the Canucks won’t be an easy battle at the starting line. "Let’s be honest, I think this is the best team since I came to Philly in 2011," Voracek said Tuesday. Extra Fines for PrincipalsNine players were fined an additional $500 for being the principals in the fights. In the qualifying round, the Islanders simply outplayed the Panthers. To preserve these articles as they originally appeared, The Times does not alter, edit or update them.Occasionally the digitization process introduces transcription errors or other problems; we are continuing to work to improve these archived versions. However, if the Flyers come out with the same intensity they had in the round robin, they should still come out on top. However, for a fan base who grew up on the Broad Street Bullies, the brawl is part of the fabric of the Flyers franchise. Following the brawl, rule changes were implemented to severely punish any player who leaves the bench during a fight, effectively ending bench-clearing brawls.Many would consider this a black mark for the league, which dealt with protests of the violence following the incident. But the Flyers noticed, and on Thursday night, their response turned fierce.When Lemieux and Corson skated toward the Philadelphia net, they were followed by Hospodar and Resch, the backup Flyer goaltender. He has scored more goals against only one other team: the Sabres with 17.Vigneault will continue to look for more from van Riemsdyk and the big winger profiles well in this series.• After missing the round-robin finale because of an undisclosed issue, Jakub Voracek has practiced the last two days and said he's good to go.Voracek was one of the Flyers' best players when the club started finding its identity in November. Ziegler Is MumJohn Ziegler, the N.H.L.
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