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The New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils were quick to choose violence during Wednesday's matchup, engaging in an all-out fight that saw all but two players ejected as soon as the game opened.
Eight players were assessed fighting majors and ejected during the line brawl, which took place right after the puck drop at Madison Square Garden.
The Devils' Curtis Lazar and Rangers' Jimmy Vesey were hit with fighting majors but remained eligible to play as they were ruled to be the "first fight." Every other skater on the ice was ejected because of their "secondary altercations."
The tossed Rangers players included Jacob Trouba, Matt Rempe, K'Andre Miller and Barclay Goodrow. For the Devils, John Marino, Chris Tierney, Kurtis MacDermid and Kevin Bahl were ejected.
Rempe and McDermid sized each other up before descending into their clash, which was potentially the most entertaining. In Rempe's three career games against the Devils, he's been ejected from all three.
It didn't take long for Rangers head coach Peter Laviolette and Devils interim coach Travis Green to join in and jaw at each other. They were seen cursing and yelling from their respective benches on the broadcast.
This wasn't the first instance of bad blood between the teams. Laviolette even seemed to foreshadow the chaos during Tuesday's practice.
“We gotta win. The division games are always, I think, a little bit more competitive,” Laviolette said via the New York Post. “When you play inside your division more than you do anyone else, there’s probably a little bit more tension inside those games.”
Wednesday's incident was likely a result of Rempe's actions in two previous encounters with the Devils. During the Rangers' 3-1 win on March 11, the 21-year-old elbowed Devils defenseman Jonas Siegenthaler and gave him a concussion. Rempe was ejected from the game and issued a four-game suspension.
Before that, Rempe was ejected after he hit Devils forward Nathan Bastian during a 5-1 win for the Rangers on Feb. 22.
Of course, Rempe wasn't the only agitator on Wednesday. The Devils and Rangers recorded five scraps within the first two seconds of the game overall. It's the most fights in an NHL game since the Rangers and Washington Capitals combined for six fights on May 5, 2021, per Sportsnet Stats.
Daniel Weinman was crowned winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event on Monday, taking home a record breaking $12.1 million in winnings. Weinman had to outlast the other 10,043 entrants to take home the prize and get his hands on his share of live poker’s largest ever prize pool – a staggering $93,399,900. As well as taking home the prize money, 35-year-old Weinman also got his hands on the WSOP Main Event bracelet. The huge bracelet contains 500 grams of 10-karat yellow gold, as well as 2,352 various precious gemstones.
Daniel Weinman won the World Series of Poker's main event world championship on Monday in Las Vegas, earning $12.1 million along the way. Playing in the tournament for a 16th year, Weinman was tops in a deep pool of 10,043 players vying for $93.39 million. His victory came after just 164 hands at the final table. "I was honestly on the fence about even coming back and playing this tournament," the 35-year-old Atlanta native told reporters afterward. Weinman's final table featured Jan-Peter Jachtmann, who landed in fourth place and took home $3 million, as well as Toby Lewis, who finished seventh and secured $1.42 million. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the main event's entry pool far outpaced the previous record of 8,773 set in 2006. "I've always kind of felt that poker was kind of going in a dying direction, but to see the numbers at the World Series this year has been incredible," Weinman said. "And to win this main event, it doesn't feel real. I mean, [there's] so much luck in a poker tournament. I thought I played very well." Steven Jones finished second, securing $6.5 million. And Adam Walton settled for third and a $4 million prize.
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