GIP! and screencaps!

After explaining the whole concept of screencapping to me in Very Small Words, heuradys took one of the caps I did and made it into this lovely icon, so I now have hugging hockey boys to complement my kissing hockey boys.

Okay, the guys under this first cut tag? Are fighting. I swear. They want to hurt each other. At least at the moment. What they'll be meeting up to do after the game, I really couldn't say.

( Ward and Severyn, going at it. )

I had trouble getting good caps of most of the fights, as they tend to be blurry, and no one frame can quite capture a fight anyway. I couldn't resist this one, though:

( Yeah, those are goalies, but check out the guys in the background. )

Okay, the other thing about hockey fights is that they tend to be bloody. On this particular night, there was a lot of blood. A lot. All the screencaps with an emphasis on blood are going under this next cut tag, so. If you tend to wince in sympathy at evidence of other people's pain, this is not the cut tag for you, okay?

( This game was front page news in Detroit, and the headline was BLOODY GOOD, so it's not just me. We're a bloodthirsty city. )

The best part, though, is really after the fights.

( Mmmmm, afterglow. )

The game wound up going to overtime, with each team scoring five goals in between the non-stop fights. Hockey overtimes are sudden death, one goal and it's all over. On this particular night, that one goal was scored by none other than Darren McCarty, making him officially the hero of the night.

( Heroes get all the love. )