When I was growing up, although I was a Nordiques fan, I had a soft spot for the Philadelphia Flyers. Mostly that was due to the fact that I was a big Ron Hextall fan. As a chubby kid whose dad had a nice set of goalie pads, I found myself in nets a lot, and loved trying to play like Hextall. Fast forward 25+ years, and on my third visit to watch the Flyers play, little did I know that the game on this night would feature something very Hextall-like: a full blown goalie fight. More on that later.
I got to the game just as the gates were opening so I could take in some of the warmups from ice-level. Slipping past an usher, I made my way down to just behind the Flyers bench as they took the ice. On the left, the view of the Capitals warming up at the other end. On the right, Steve Mason warming up with former Halifax Mooseheads star Jakob Voracek looking on:
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