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Hockey fight blog with humorous, blow-by-blow commentary on goons, enforcers and donnybrooks.

Keith Aucoin

WTF?


in AHL, Chris, Goons, Keith Aucoin

A little over a year ago I wrote this little piece. For those of you not inclined to re read it, I will re hash. Last season Keith Aucoin almost started a brawl, and got his fucking head kicked in for being a smart mouth. I don’t like Aucoin, never have. He is mouthy and can’t back it up. I have never liked players like that. Well today, I got this comment from new reader AJ.

WAHHHHHH!!!!! Are u pissed that Aucoin is a better hockey player than you.Talk about Sour grapes.Pansy

While I appreciate the comments from any one, I gotta call AJ out on this one. First off, I don’t think I am crying here. I call them as I see them AJ. I was psyched to see the violence, and was hoping a brawl started. I don’t care who started it. I was simply making a point. Ask anyone who has seen Aucoin play, and they will tell you the same thing. He is mouthy.

Secondly. I am not pissed Aucoin is a better hockey player than me. I think he is outstanding as a player. He has a great scoring touch and a knack for scoring big goals. Tom Rowe definitely loves the guy as he has had him on his roster a couple of times. I also have a lot bigger things to worry about than if Keith Aucoin is a better hockey player than me. He sure fucking is. Know what? A lot of people are. I think I am over it. I sell IT equipment. I don’t play pro hockey. I am cool with it. As far as the sour grapes and me being a pansy? I don’t see it. I love the rough stuff, obviously as this blog isn’t called PrettyGoalblog. It’s fucking Goonblog. So AJ thanks for stopping by. Feel free to read all the posts, and as always, comments are welcome. Even if they are way off base.

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Colton Orr Ain’t Gonna Help You Now.


in AHL, Colton Orr, Dave Karpa, Goons, Keith Aucoin

For those of us in the Boston area we all remember a well known rant by former Celtics Coach Rick Pitino. It went something like, "Larry Bird isn’t walking through that door, Kevin McHale isn’t walking through that door. It gets played constantly on sports radio, and was pretty much the end of Pitino’s days as the Celtics Bench Boss. What does this have to do with hockey fights? Glad you asked.

Friday night was spent up at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell watching yet another lackluster Lockmonster performance. At the end of the game, Keith Aucoin starts a shoving match with Sound Tiger, Dave Karpa. It escalated quickly, probably due to Aucoin’s smart mouth. Karpa wound up throwing about five right hands to Aucoin. It looked like a line brawl was about to happen because as Karpa was lowering the boom on Smart Mouth Aucoin, the other eight guys on the ice were all locked up. It was a typical post game dust up we have all seen a million times. The stripes got in there, and everyone was separated. The near brawl took place right against the visitors entrance doors, and off to the right of where I was sitting. Being right there at the gate, one linesman got Karpa, and another Sound Tiger off the ice, as the other linesman escorted Smart Mouth Aucoin toword his own bench. Now, as this was happening, the fracas in the corner heated up again, and the linesman that was Smart Mouth’s date, left him alone to try and break it up. This left Smart Mouth all alone in front of the Bridgeport Bench.

I noticed out of the corner of my left eye as the pushing and shoving heated up again to my right, that Smart Mouth wasn’t preceding to his bench. In fact, he had stopped directly in front of the Sound Tiger Bench, doing his best John Wensink impression. He was standing there with his arms out to his sides, palms up, in the universal "I don’t give a fuck, let’s go" stance. No one on Bridgeport’s Bench moved. Someone did, however, reach out with the butt end of their stick and try to poke Keith Wensink with it. That drew a crowd, and Wensink was almost pulled into the Bridgeport Bench. That drew the attention of the other nine guys on the ice, and all the officials, as they all converged at the visiting Bench. At this time, Karpa, and the other Sound Tiger that were pushed off the ice earlier, got back on the ice. A major no no. It was then that I said out loud, "Holy Shit, these benches are both going to empty."

One of the linesmen grabbed Keith Smart Mouth Aucoin Wensink, and pulled him to the Lowell Bench. Lockmonster Coach Tom Rowe, came on the ice and was pulling guys to his bench. I thought that wasn’t the best move for Coach Rowe, as he got in a lot of trouble in Norfolk for being on the ice during a post period brawl last season. Eventually things got calm, and I left my seat to talk it over with others on what they had seen.

No one was assessed any penalties (not even Karpa, and the other Tiger that came back on the ice were assessed anything. A major oversight in my mind.) It got me thinking how Aucoin started the whole thing. I think he is incredibly mouthy, and a really big punk. I don’t have a problem with it, save for the fact that he can’t back any of it up. I also think he’s going to get his head kicked in one day in Lowell. Last season he could be a mouthy punk, and he had Colton Orr, and Brendan Walsh to back him up. Who’s he got this year? Exactly. No one. These two Teams lock horns again in February. I hope someone runs Smart Mouth Wensink right through the boards.

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