Cody McLeod and Patrick Maroon go to war in back and forth battle.

What a scrap.

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Cody McLeod and Patrick Maroon go to war in back and forth battle.

The St. Louis Blues are suddenly in the midst of a late season surge and in spite of the fact that the team appeared to have thrown in the towel earlier in the season, firing head coach Mike Yeo and indicating that several of their top players could be traded, they now look like they could be a legitimate playoff team. 

It's hard to pinpoint exactly what turned things around for the Blues this season, it almost certainly is a combination of things rather than simply any one thing, but there's no question that they look like a completely different team than the one that started the season under Mike Yeo. On Saturday the Blues continued on their hot streak this time defeating another team that is a legitimate playoff contender in the Nashville Predators in what was a close game by the time it was all said and done. 

The highlight of the game however may have come in the opening moments when two of the biggest men on the ice decided that they were already tired of putting up with one another. An earlier collision in the neutral zone had already resulted in some ruffled feathers and it was only a few moments after that Nashville Predator Cody McLeoad and St. Louis Blue Patrick Maroon were dropping the gloves at center ice.

What resulted from that can only be described as a war between the two men as they both began to throw heavy punches at one another with neither man really ever able to secure an advantage. In fact at several points during the combat it looked as if things could quickly come to as both men appeared to be turning things into a grappling match. That being said though each time one man or the other gained leverage the punches immediately began to rain down again and it appeared as if neither man had any intention of stopping the barrage unless they were being tied up by their opponent. 

Full credit to the National Hockey League officials who stayed out of this one and actually let these two big boys duke it out for the fans, but I highly suspect that the size of the two men involved as well as the power they were exerting played a big factor in why the officials stayed out of it for as long as they did.

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