Is this preseason hockey or a Worldstar video?<\/p>\n
PublishedOctober 3, 2025 12:22 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedOctober 3, 2025 12:22 PM EDT<\/p>\n
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Nothing like preseason hockey, right folks?<\/p>\n
It’s a great time to see some new faces, check out what your team has in terms of depth, and just shake off the rust from the summer months.<\/p>\n
For the Florida Panthers and Tampa Bay Lightning, however, the preseason edition of their “Battle of Florida” was a chance for the two teams to continue their seething hatred for one another and beat the ever loving piss out of each other.<\/p>\n
It started in the second period, when Panthers tough guy AJ Greer incited an all-out line brawl by taking a run at Lightning d-man Darren Raddysh.<\/p>\n
While everyone else on the ice was holding steady with their partners, Greer and Raddysh were throwing absolute bombs towards each other.<\/p>\n
Dear God! It’s beautiful.<\/p>\n
Not to be outdone, Panthers’ fourth liner and clinical psychopath, Jonah Gadjovich, decided he wasn’t done and proceeded to take Declan Carlile behind a woodshed.<\/p>\n
It makes sense that Gadjovich would be at the center of multiple scrums against Tampa.<\/p>\n
This is the same guy that was playing charades with the Edmonton Oilers with blood on his mouth after feeding his fists to a few different players throughout the Stanley Cup Finals.<\/p>\n
What a madman!<\/p>\n
All in all, the fights resulted in 64 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n
I feel like I need to remind people this is preseason hockey.<\/p>\n
The regular season doesn’t start until next week, yet the Panthers and Lightning were chucking knucks like they were auditioning to be the main card at the next UFC event.<\/p>\n
Imagine if this happened in the NBA?<\/p>\n
Every player would be hiding behind security and their management team while they drafted up apologies on their notes apps.<\/p>\n
If this is what the preseason has to offer, I can’t wait until these two teams meet in the regular season.<\/p>\n
The Battle of Florida has given us plenty of memorable matchups recently, as well as four of the last six Stanley Cup champions.<\/p>\n
Hockey is almost back, ladies and gentlemen. The Bolts and Cats just got started a week earlier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Is this preseason hockey or a Worldstar video? PublishedOctober 3, 2025 12:22 PM EDT\u2022UpdatedOctober 3, 2025 12:22 PM…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-199960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}