Writing down full descriptions for hockey fights is tiresome and forces me to learn background information I don’t want to know, so here’s a little breakdown of the roles in this quick and dirty Canucks-Oilers dust-up:
Mattias Ohlund: checker
Erik Cole: checkee
Cole’s ...
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