Well, that didn’t take long.
With bad feelings still simmering between the Rangers and Capitals after Tom Wilson’s misconduct in their previous meeting Monday, the teams brawled soon after taking the ice for Wednesday’s matchup at Madison Square Garden.
As the puck dropped to open Wednesday’s game, three fights immediately broke out among the players lined up in forward positions with the Rangers’ Phillip Di Giuseppe, Colin Blackwell and Kevin Rooney fighting Washington’s Garnet Hathaway, Carl Hagelin and Nic Dowd respectively.
A second skirmish began not long after play resumed at 19:10 when Wilson took his first shift of the game.