Colorado Avalanche–Detroit Red Wings brawl
1997 NHL ice hockey brawl between the Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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This article is about the March 26, 1997, brawl between the Colorado Avalanche and the Detroit Red Wings. For the rivalry between the two teams, see Avalanche–Red Wings rivalry.
The Avalanche–Red Wings brawl was a large-scale on-ice melee that occurred March 26, 1997, at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, between two National Hockey League (NHL) rivals: the Colorado Avalanche and Detroit Red Wings. The brawl, which has been nicknamed Bloody Wednesday, Fight Night at the Joe and Brawl in Hockeytown,[1] stemmed from a previous on-ice incident between the two teams during the 1996 Western Conference Finals. The game featured 18 fighting major penalties and 144 minutes in penalties.
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Date | March 26, 1997 | ||||||||||||||||||
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Arena | Joe Louis Arena | ||||||||||||||||||
City | Detroit | ||||||||||||||||||
Attendance | 19,983 |
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