Sh*t Vs. Giggles: The Slapfest at Scotiabank Place

by mf37 on Oct 9, 2009 3:27 PM EDT

Rotoworld is reporting that Ottawa Senators Jason Spezza and Chris Neil "fought" each other at practice today.

No word on whether the contents of their purses were spilled during the incident.

Update: Here's video footage of the scrap:

"I don't know what happened," [Spezza] said. As teammates, sometimes you get into it. It was just a (spitting) match. I'll buy him lunch today. But I knew when he dropped the gloves, it was time to get out of there. Just stay at arm's length."

- Allan Panzeri, Ottawa Citizen

Too bad for Spezza that there weren't any linesmen on the ice or Neil would never have engaged.

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Nice to see Neil finally go after somebody in his weight class.

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by Down Goes Brown on Oct 9, 2009 3:22 PM EDT reply actions

Sh*t Vs. Giggles

World class.

Harder, better, faster, stronger because our work is never over.

by Mattblack on Oct 9, 2009 3:30 PM EDT reply actions

hah, all I picture is a girly-type slap fight between them…

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by Karina on Oct 9, 2009 3:30 PM EDT reply actions

Don’t forget the hair-pulling!

Being a Leaf fan here requires one to be sufficiently lubricated... and truculent!

by stucky on Oct 9, 2009 3:35 PM EDT up reply actions

good point!

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by Karina on Oct 9, 2009 3:41 PM EDT up reply actions

Rec'd

all of it.

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by eyebleaf on Oct 9, 2009 3:31 PM EDT reply actions

Fuckin’ priceless.

Finally Neil picks on someone his own size, which is light heavyweight.

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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 9, 2009 3:33 PM EDT reply actions

I, for one, am dying to know if they sniffed each other’s butts afterward.

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by kidkawartha on Oct 9, 2009 3:43 PM EDT reply actions

the winner dry humped the loser

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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 9, 2009 10:27 PM EDT up reply actions

Then they took turns peeing on the plants in the lobby.

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by kidkawartha on Oct 9, 2009 11:12 PM EDT up reply actions

I've got the story and a picture from the fight...

http://truculenceiseverything.blogspot.com/2009/10/spezza-v-neil-sissy-fight-to-end-all.html

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by Marc Pilgrim on Oct 9, 2009 3:43 PM EDT reply actions

It sounds like Neil didn’t actually land a punch. So I’m assuming he still skated off the ice waving his arms at the crowd.

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by Down Goes Brown on Oct 9, 2009 3:43 PM EDT reply actions

What crowd?

Truculence...starting 10/1/09

by LeafBoy on Oct 9, 2009 5:45 PM EDT up reply actions

all the leaf fans that permeate the SBC

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by JaredFromLondon on Oct 9, 2009 10:28 PM EDT up reply actions

During a practice?

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by LeafBoy on Oct 10, 2009 12:20 AM EDT up reply actions

We talkin’ ’bout practice?

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by Jo4nny on Oct 10, 2009 11:02 AM EDT up reply actions

It kills me how even Jason Spezza knows that all you need to do to avoid Chris Neil is “just stay at arm’s length”.

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by Down Goes Brown on Oct 9, 2009 3:46 PM EDT reply actions

Heh, yeah.

But still, to paraphrase Spezza, he’s going to give the bully his lunch money so he’ll leave him alone.

by Ando Rich on Oct 9, 2009 3:58 PM EDT up reply actions

No, Chris, you cannot stay at my place if you get waived.

"We've had an ongoing problem with Grabovski this year." Bob Gainey, 4/04/09

by kidkawartha on Oct 9, 2009 4:01 PM EDT up reply actions

Is ‘bully’ the right word?

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by clrkaitken on Oct 9, 2009 4:02 PM EDT up reply actions

In the context of Jason “Princess” Spezza? Yes.

by Ando Rich on Oct 9, 2009 4:24 PM EDT up reply actions

Something tells me that this is going to end up like the “Stright Dave incident” from Bruno.

by 6rick6 on Oct 9, 2009 4:10 PM EDT reply actions

Or the naked fight from Borat.

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by article1 on Oct 9, 2009 4:13 PM EDT up reply actions

Maybe if he fought Wellwood.

by 6rick6 on Oct 9, 2009 7:34 PM EDT up reply actions

According to TSN, in the past Neil has also had skirmishes in practice with Magnus Arvedson and Martin Havlat. My respect for Neil as a tough player has never been higher, although I’m not sure “respect” or “tough” are the right words.

by Screaming Will on Oct 9, 2009 4:35 PM EDT reply actions