AHL: Amerks and Crunch End of Season Brawl

At one of the last regular season games between the Rochester Americans and Syracuse Crunch, nine out of ten players on the ice got into a fight.

The Amerks were pushed around the entire season by the Crunch; it was sad that it took all season for something like this to happen. I managed to record this video from our seats as the events unfolded.

It was disappointing that Anthony Stewart wasn’t willing to quickly drop his gloves with Mirasty. Mirasty isn’t a small dude, but neither is Stewart. Stewart's excuse was that the linesman had already grabbed him and pushed him toward the penalty box. Yet Mirasty managed to skate away and continue fighting.

Mirasty got away and was the third man in on a scuffle between Lojek and not sure who else; at that point Tyler Plante took a stroll out and pulled him off. He later said he had no idea he was pulling Mirasty off and second guessed himself at that point (I would too)!

Mike Funk and Derick Brassard were doing some dancing around and they both fell to the ice in front of the Amerks bench where Funk decided to start laying some punches on the guy. Who knew Funk could punch like that!

At that tail end of the video is an unfortunate event where some very nice and polite Crunch fans were more or less attacked by some rude Rochester residents (not even worthy of being called Amerks fans).

In total, there were 10 game misconducts and 161 total penalty minutes handed out. Here’s the list:

• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Brassard, Fighting, 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Brassard, Game misconduct -Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Brule, Unsportsmanlike conduct, 2 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Brule, Fighting, 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Brule, Game misconduct- Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Goehring, Leaving the crease, 2 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Mirasty, Fighting, 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Mirasty, Misconduct, 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Mirasty, Game misconduct - Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Mirasty, Game misconduct - Third man in (47.15), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Motherwell, Fighting , 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Motherwell, Game misconduct - Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—SYR Westcott, Fighting , 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Funk, Fighting, 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Funk, Game misconduct - Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Glass, Fighting , 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Larman, Fighting , 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Larman, Game misconduct - Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Lojek, Fighting , 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Lojek, Game misconduct - Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Plante, Leaving the crease, 2 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Plante, Fighting , 5 min (PP)
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Plante, Game misconduct - Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Stewart, Fighting , 5 min
• Third Period, 16:58—RCH Stewart, Game misconduct - Secondary altercation (47.6), 10 min