They punched their manner into the file books.
Whereas the world watched Canada beat america in extra time to win the 4 Nations Face-Off on Thursday, Skilled Ladies’s Hockey League gamers Jill Saulnier and Tereza Vanisova threw down in what’s believed to be the primary struggle within the league’s historical past.
Each combatants landed punches in bunches as Saulnier appeared to instigate the melee, shoving Vanisova into the nook earlier than they threw down their sticks and determined to land some haymakers as a substitute.
The fracas got here in the course of the Boston Fleet’s 3-2 extra time victory over the Ottawa Cost.
Vanisova and Saulnier landed good, clear pictures within the struggle, though they didn’t shake off their gloves, as a substitute performing like boxers by preventing with the gloves on.
After the struggle, each gamers had been dropped at the penalty field for what the official known as “roughing” as they licked their wounds from the struggle.
Saulnier appeared to get the worst of it as she was bloodied and doused her face in a towel as she sat within the penalty field.
Saulnier did land clear rights and lefts, snapping again Vanisova’s head early within the change.
Each ladies had a powerful exhibiting, although, as nobody got here out of the struggle unscathed.
Vanisova bought the final snicker, although, as 24-year-old from Czech Republic scored within the remaining moments of regulation to push the sport to extra time and assisted on one other objective.
She now has the primary “Gordie Howe” hat trick in PWHL historical past, referring to when a participant tallies a objective, help and a struggle in the identical recreation.
The PWHL was based in 2023 and has six groups, three from Canada and three from america.
