BOSTON — The was a lot of swinging, a little jawing and not much connecting when two of the NHL’s biggest guys squared off to fight on Tuesday at TD Garden.
It’s unclear exactly what Nikita Zadorov was riled up about in Boston’s game against the Kings. After a collision near the blue that sent he and Taylor Ward sprawling, the Bruins defenseman got up and went after Samuel Helenius, one of the few Los Angeles players in his weight class.
The 6-foot-7 Russian defenseman and the 6-foot-6 forward from Texas each used their left arms to prevent the other from getting off any clean swings with their right hands creating a tangled tango that the officials eventually broke up.
The five minute infraction with 6:35 left in the second brought Zadorov’s league-leading penalty minute total to 132.