Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em Hockey: This Nic Deslauriers And Matt Rempe Fight Was The Best You'll See In Hockey For A Long Time
Len Redkoles. Getty Images.Matt Rempe has been in the NHL for maybe a week at this point, and the kid has been doing nothing but wreak havoc every time he touches the ice. He made his NHL debut in the Stadium Series against the Islanders, and got into a fight with Matt Martin before his first NHL shift officially started. He's already gotten tossed from a game after laying the everliving shit out of Nathan Bastian in the Rangers game against New Jersey this week. And now he's taken on the baddest dude in the Metro Division, and arguably the baddest dude in the entire NHL right now.
Rempe is still a new kid in the league. So he has to dip his toes into the water before jumping all the way in. Like a nervous kid at a school dance trying to work up the courage to finally ask that girl he's had his eyes on if she wants to dance during the next slow song, he needed to figure out a way to at least get himself on Deslauriers' radar before the game. Nicolas Deslauriers doesn't need to do any lurking. He doesn't need to go out surveying the scene to look for a fight. Everybody always knows where he is, and the fight always comes to him.
What a damn tilt it turned out to be.
Two big, mean bastards just standing in the pocket going blow for blow. All gas, no brakes, throwing nothing but bombs at each other's skull. That's olde time hockey, baby! Eddie Shore!
And in the end, D-Lo comes out with the win. He gave up about 6 inches and 20 pounds, but that's why he's the baddest dude in hockey right now. Gets the jersey, gets the takedown, gets the W. But nothing but respect for Matt Rempe, who is quickly climbing up the rankings of dudes in this league you don't want to find yourself on the wrong side of. If this is what we got out of his first week in the league, I can only imagine how much carnage he's going to create the rest of his career.
He also got his name on the goals section of the scoresheet for the first time in his career with the eventual game winner yesterday.