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A history of Hockey fights in Belfast

Richard Blayney — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 02:22:01 +0000

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.

Final two import sports filled

Richard Blayney — Tue, 22 Aug 2006 19:25:48 +0000

I certainly couldn’t be much happier with the two final import slots that Ed has filled today. Returning for a second season is Shawn Skiehar who added the physical as well as defensive aspect to the Giants forward lines last year and joining him is an ex-team mate of his and a new player to the Giants line-up, defenseman, J.P. Morin.

At 26, Jean-Phillipe is a hard hitting no nonsense defenseman who stands at 6’2 and 205lbs. He joins the Giants from the Flint Generals of the UHL where he spent three seasons. Although a good bit smaller than Jason Bowen he certainly looks to be the replacement for the big man who retired from the game this off-season. I don’t know much about Morin but he seems to have a good reputation and was an ex draft pick of the Philadelphia Flyers. He’ll certainly add much needed Steel to the Giants defence and will certainly keep the opposition forwards honest.

These two signings complete the Giants import spots for the year bringing the roster total to 13 players. With local trials coming up soon it’s likely that Morrison and Walton will re-sign for the team and maybe followed by one or two other local guys who could be brought in to gain experience and learn the Elite league ropes.

Still for now I can’t imagine there is a single Giants fan out there who is not happy with how this line-up is looking. It’s big, strong and powerful, can score goals, can defend well and also carries good speed. It should be exciting.