I’ve spent the last little while updating the fight section on the site, giving it a full revamp. I’ve tracked down lost fights, old video’s as well as updating all-time statistics as individual season statistics. Fights are broken down to individual seasons with details of each fight as well as fighting majors for the season per player and against individual teams. In the coming weeks and months I hope to add in profiles of individual players and their fight stats – enough to keep the Giants fight fan busy for a while!

Of course, there’s only videos of fights I could fine but if you see any fights without a video link, let me know and I’ll be sure to link it up.

For interests sake, Did you know:

- Sean McMorrow has now had more fights in a single season (20) than any other Giants season.

- The Giants have had more fights this season (35) than in any other season before.

- Paxton Schulte has had more fights than any Giants player in team history with 31. Shawn Skiehar is second on 21 with Jason Bowen and Sean McMorrow on 20.

- There have been 132 fights at home games and 125 on the road with four occasions when there have been four fights in a single game and one occasions when a player has had three fights in a single game (Shawn Skiehar).

- In December 2000 the Giants got into 14 fights in one month.

The homepage of the Giants fighting information can be found here with links to individual seasons.

The Belfast Giants are currently through two months of their 9th season. Indeed, for those of us lucky enough to have been around it from the start that is a scary thought. Over that time and at the time of writing, the Giants have racked up 9952 penalty minutes (not including six void games and exehibition friendly games). Yes, Nine Thousand and Fifth Two penalty minutes and this weekend if they register a team total of 48, and it’s very possible, then they will top the 10,000 plateau. Read More»

It’s playoff time, it’s a new season altogether some would say, but it wasn’t a new Giants as they went and lost again to the Steelers to get their playoff campaign off to the worst possible start.

They went down 3-1 against Sheffield with all the scoring happening in the first period. The Giants and Steelers matched each other in a low shout count of 23-23 but the deciding factor was the Giants discipline.

Sheffield got the first two goals on the Power play, with the leagues top points scorer Mark Dutiaume opening the scoring and then Joel Irving doubling their lead on the man advantage with a two man power play.

The Giants then made a game of it by pulling one back through Todd Kelman but a Ryan lake goal before the end of the period completed the scoring for the night.

The violent side of the game then picked up when Ryan Lake put on an extremely cheap and dirty hit on Giants defenseman Graeme Walton from behind sending him face first into the boards. Walton didn’t get up for quite some time and rightfully Lake was ejected from the game, but surprisingly it was only a game penalty.

The third period seen more action as Paxton Schulte went after Dion Darling. The two fought a few weeks ago with Paxton winning it on punches landed but the victory was a lot more one sided tonight as Paxton landed all the punches and then dropped Darling to the ice. Darling got 2+2 but Paxton was landed with 5+game for tripping and 5+game for fighting. This really sky rocketed his penalty minute count once again.

The Giants travel to Manchester to complete their two away games of the playoff race before returning to the Odyssey the following weekend for back to back games against the Steelers and Phoenix.

Sheffield Steelers 3-1 Belfast Giants

Steelers: Dutiaume (pp) 9:37, Irving (pp) 12:11, Lake 16:13.
Giants: Kelman 14:43.

Giants Lineup: Ryder, Johnson, Jamieson, Stewart, Walton, Kelman, J.Bowen, Morrison, Ward, Finney, Sample, Ruff, Schulte, Kenny, C.Bowen, McGimpsey.
Scratch: G.Martin (broken collarbone), Brittle, Carlon.

Notes:
— Paxton Schulte took 56 minutes in penalties.

Yet another loss was handed out to the Belfast Giants tonight and this time by their former coach’s team, the Cardiff Devils. The Giants had a strong support of fans over for this game but it wasn’t enough to get them the win.

The moral and confidence remains at an all time low with the players but their effort in tonight’s game cannot be faulted. If the luck you get when your in form had been with the Giants they could easily have won this one, but as it was they didn’t get the bounces needed and again came away with a loss.

Paxton Schulte and Mark Morrison scored the goals for the Giants as Mark Morrison got his second ever goal in what many said was his best game for the Giants in a man of the match performance. It was two goals in quick succession however that spoilt the Giants chances.

The team will travel tomorrow up to Coventry for another game, their forth in five nights in what is turning out to be completely unfair and very tough schedule for the Irish team. But they will have to muster every piece of energy they have left if they are to pull a win out of the bag and break out of their slump.

Cardiff Devils 3-2 Belfast Giants

Devils: Brown (pp) 6:16, Phillips 6:23, Phillips 33:24.
Giants: Schulte (pp) 3:00, Morrison 13:07.

Giants lineup: Ryder, Johnson, Jamieson, Stewart, Walton, Kelman, Morrison, Finney, Sample, G.Martin, Ruff, Schulte, J.Bowen, Kelman, C.Bowen, McGimpsey.
Scratch: Ward (broken ankle), Taylor.

Nothing changed from last night as the Giants lost their third game on the trot, this time to Coventry Blaze by 5-1. The Giants who came out of the blocks with an early power play goal through Shane Johnson seemed to have gotten over last night, but a lack of Belfast discipline lead the way as Coventry scored 5 unanswered goals.

The Giants racked up a total of 52 penalty minutes including three ten minute misconducts and a fight for Paxton Schulte against Graham Schlender. The penalty kill seemed like the only thing on form however as with 9 powerplay chances for the Blaze they didn’t manage to convert on any.

Coventry are a rival for the Giants for the league title and this loss really puts a dent in the league championship race for the Giants. With two upcoming games against Sheffield and two more games over next weekend giving the Giants 4 games in 5 nights, they really will need to take almost maximum points from all games.

We’ll wait and see…

Coventry Blaze 5-1 Belfast Giants

Blaze: Schlender 25:39, Ruggles 29:35, Evans 30:55, Gallace 49:07, O’Brien 51:55.
Giants: Johnson (pp) 2:26.

Giants lineup: Ryder, Johnson, Jamieson, Stewart, Walton, Kelman, Morrison, Finney, Sample, G.Martin, Ruff, Schulte, J.Bowen, Kelman, C.Bowen, McGimpsey.
Scratch: Ward (broken ankle), Taylor.