Foligno rocks Phaneuf with a huge right hand after the 2 men drop the gloves.

It is not every day that you see a man the size of Dion Phaneuf get absolutely rocked by a shot like this.

On Saturday night the Los Angeles Kings were facing off against the Columbus Blue Jackets and it was a very interesting match up due to the fact that these are two organizations with a significant amount of turmoil going on internally. In the case of the Kings the fact that the team has been off to an awful start has led to a great deal of pressure on the players, coaching staff, and management and meanwhile the Blue Jackets have been dealing with their own problems when it comes to the contract situations of both star forward Artemi Panarin and star goaltender Sergei Bobrovsky.

The game was relatively uneventful with the Kings getting out to an early 1 - 0 lead over the Blue Jackets and effectively cruising on their way to a 4 - 1 victory by the time 60 minutes of play had expired, but there was a moment during the game's first period that turned a lot of heads. Although there was a goal in the first period things were pretty quit through roughly the first 15 minutes of the game with both teams barely registering a combined total of 10 shots on goal, but with just over 6 minutes to go in the period Kings defenseman Dion Phaneuf and Blue Jackets captain Nick Foligno really spiced things up.

The two men got up in one another's faces and unsurprisingly given their history and their reputations in the National Hockey League neither man was about to back down from the other, resulting in the two big men dropping their gloves and going to war. Now the fight itself was not the most exciting with relatively little damage being delivered on either side, but Foligno managed to land one shot that clearly put an end to the fight.

Foligno cracked Phaneuf with a huge right hand as the two jostled for position, a right hand that produced a reaction that I'm not sure I've ever seen out of Phaneuf before. The big Kings defenseman was clearly hurt by the punch and he was immediately out of the fight at that point, falling to the ice with ease as Foligno muscled him down to the ground.

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