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These two hockey teams were playing against
each other at a Western Conference final. The Avalanche's
Claude Lemieux blindsided the Red Wings Kris Draper with
a check and sent him face first into the boards. The force
of that check displaced several of Kris's teeth, fractured
his cheekbone, jaw and nose, and gave him a cut that needed
30 stitches. Kris later said that Claude did what he did
on purpose “because that’s the kind of player
he is and we all know that.” During the team’s
first game the following season, Kris’s friend and
team mate Darren McCarty started to fight with Claude throwing
punches in retaliation for the hit on Draper. This gave
way to a huge brawl on ice between the two teams and words
in the press following the incident.
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