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Apparently Matt Martin's sucker punch on Max Talbot wasn't enough chaos for Friday's Penguins-Islanders game (a 9-3 New York win). Adding to the madness: Penguins goalie Brent Johnson, for the second time in as many starts, finding himself in a fight against New York. Only this time it wasn't with another goalie.
After getting pulled for giving up six goals on the first 19 shots he faced, the Penguins, down by an 8-2 margin after two periods, decided to put Johnson back in the cage for the third period to finish what had turned into a blowout and three-ring circus, complete with the officials embarrassingly losing anything that resembled control.
Midway through the period Islanders forward Trevor Gillies elbowed Penguins forward Eric Tangradi starting the second line brawl of the night, while Gillies stood in the runway taunting Tangradi while he was down on the ice injured. This brawl included Michael Haley, who was called up from the Islanders minor league team earlier on Friday, fighting Talbot. Following that scrap, he then decided to skate toward Johnson and was quickly starting to throw with the Penguins goalie.
At that point, Penguins resident enforcer Eric Godard jumped from the bench to start taking his own swings at Haley. That action comes with an automatic 10-game suspension, which will probably be just one of a number of suspensions to come from this train wreck of a night.
Following the game Johnson said he was surprised to see Haley skating toward him and that it was "all a blur."
Between this, and Wednesday's fight-filled game between the Canadiens and Bruins, the anti-fighting crowd is going to have an absolute field day.
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