Throwback: Habs and Flyers get into a massive dressing room clearing brawl BEFORE playoff game

Almost 33 years ago to the day, the fight that changed hockey took place in Montreal as the Canadiens were getting ready to face the Philadelphia Flyers for Game 6 of the semifinal series. 

On May 14th, 1987, a massive dressing room clearing brawl took place before the playoff game and fans still remember it to this day. Even if they weren’t born! This is a fight that has been talked about and will be talked about for years to come. 

It all started when Claude Lemieux, who had this pregame ritual of shooting pucks into the opposing team’s empty net to end warm ups, went and did so even if the Flyers had warned him not to do it. There wasn’t a referee in sight and these guys were going at it forever.

The organist got in the mix and played the Final Countdown and of course a fight erupted not long after: 

[Chris] Nilan recalled fighting [Dave] Brown for eight to 10 minutes then having to play the game. “I was basically spent before it even began. And there was Dave sitting on the bench the whole game,” he said. “Looking back at it, it was kind of stupid.”

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