News has broke to me that Jason Rushton will not lace up his skates in tonight’s re-match against the Newcastle Vipers due to his instigation of a fight in the final five minutes of a game. This is a rule the NHL brought in a couple of years ago and which the EIHL must have slipped through the cracks sometime since. The upshot means that the Giants enforcer from last night will not take to the ice and will disappoint many of the fans who came out last night and will likely be coming out tonight to see some of the action.

The Giants who will be looking for another two points first and foremost will miss their fighter who last night completely distracted a normally goonish Andre Payette from his game long enough for the Giants to go about winning the game with the space it created. Tonight will be an interesting one to watch with Rushton missing and whether the Vipers will look to extract some revenge on Giants players not quite as interested as Rushton.

Like the style of play Rushton brings or not it certainly draws the crowd and created an atmosphere that has been missing from the Odyssey arena for arugably a few years now.

No doubt we’ll get a good game as all players will be pumped up form the previous nights action.

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