AHL players involved in wild fight

A regular season game between the AHL affiliates of the Detroit Red Wings and the Minnesota Wild turned into chaos when a wild fight broke out. The Grand Rapid Griffins and Iowa Wild met for a game that produced one of the craziest scrums in recent memory.

The shenanigans between the Red Wings and Wild’s AHL squads started with a check from Griffins forward Elmer Soderblom, causing a scrum between the teams. Tempers started to flare from that point on and only escalated.

The post-whistle scrums continued throughout the match, and when Griffins defenseman Willaim Lagesson made contact with Wild forward Adam Raska, it turned into more of a WWE or MMA style fight than the usual shoving match.

Lagesson took Raska to the ground and then applied a rough chokehold on the Wild forward. Now that it’s locked in place, Raska visibly taps out. After Raska gives up a few times, two officials come in to break things up and Lagesson relents.

The clip is absolutely wild. Check out this one shared by X account Griffin’s Nest. What makes the whole ordeal even crazier is that you can see an official’s skates at the top of the frame, seemingly doing nothing until another official skates over them.

The AHL can be a bit of the Wild West at times, and this was a prime example. As comedian and actor Rodney Dangerfield once said, “I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out!” But according to the on-ice officials, this incident was just a classic example of rough behavior, and Lagesson was given two minutes in the penalty area.

The match resulted in 26 penalty minutes. The Griffins also came away victorious, defeating the Wild by a score of 5-2. But I seriously doubt anyone will talk about or remember the score of this match after Lagesson became perhaps the first AHL player to successfully make another player tap out with a submission hold.

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