damn that was chaos. it's hard to see for the untrained eye, but there is a tremendous amount of honor and respect in a hockey fight. i played ice & roller hockey all through high school and college. it was relatively new down here (in '93, with the establishment of the florida panthers) so our parents just thought fighting was part of the game, they didn't know any better. so we would get into bench-clearing brawls at the end of every game, it was great. hockey players leave everything on the ice. there's nothing personal, once the game is over, it's over. most of these guys are friends off-ice. i'm glad fighting is still allowed, it definitely has its place in the sport. in the playoffs, at the end of a series, the teams line up for handshakes. growingup we did the same after every game we played. lot of respect in that, i think.