It was Fight Night in St. Paul on Thursday as the Minnesota Wild and Philadelphia Flyers gave fans in attendance a ticket to both a hockey game and a full boxing card.
First, the heavyweights went toe-to-toe. The Wild’s Ryan Reaves and Flyers’ Nic Deslauriers calmly made the arrangement at a first-period faceoff and it crescendoed into a technical bout.
Ryan Reaves and Nicolas Deslauriers drop the gloves straight off the draw for a heavyweight tilt#mnwild | #FueledByPhilly pic.twitter.com/n77POhaF1M
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It wasn’t the fireworks show many would expect with these two infamous fighters getting into it.