Brandon Duhaime knocks out Will Lockwood with one brutal punch after attack on Marc-Andre Fleury!

Friday night’s game between the Minnesota Wild and the Florida Panthers was not for the faint of heart. The first period kicked off with a bang when a melee broke out behind the Wild’s net after Will Lockwood knocked goalie Marc-Andre Fleury to the ice while he was out playing the puck.

Lockwood was pummelled by Fleury’s teammates, who came to his aid, though the netminder was okay and stayed in the contest. Zach Bogosian dropped his gloves and grabbed Lockwood and ended up delivering several uppercuts to the head with many penalties called on the sequence.

It was however not over for Lockwood, who had to answer for his actions and later on in the same frame, was invited to fight with Brandon Duhaime. The two exchanged brutal blows before it all came to an halt with Duhaime ending the fight with a KO punch to Lockwood’s chin.

The Panthers forward was out cold and needed help to make it to his team’s dressing room.

While Duhaime was ruthless during the fight, he immediately checked on Lockwood after seeing him go down.

This is the entire sequence here below:

Moments later, another fight took place when Marcus Foligno, who has been penalized just before for boarding defenseman Oliver Ekman-Larsson, dropped the gloves with Panthers winger Jonah Gadjovich.

The game was not even ten minutes old and the fights and penalties were already taking over. This second fight was a marathon tilt between Foligno and Gadjovich, and probably has officials wondering what will come next in this crazy hockey game.

Old time hockey it seems!

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