{"id":390684,"date":"2026-01-06T07:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/390684\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T07:28:08","slug":"brandon-duhaime-fights-jacob-trouba-to-avenge-hit-that-injured-ryan-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/390684\/","title":{"rendered":"Brandon Duhaime fights Jacob Trouba to avenge hit that injured Ryan Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brandon Duhaime stepped up to the plate on behalf of teammate Ryan Leonard on Monday night.<\/p>\n

Duhaime dropped the gloves with Anaheim Ducks defenseman Jacob Trouba at the 13:23 mark of the first period. The bout came in response to Trouba\u2019s controversial hit that injured the rookie Leonard early last month<\/a>, taking him out of the Washington Capitals\u2019 lineup for seven games.<\/p>\n

While the thought was there from Duhaime, he had a tough time making much contact with Trouba, being the much smaller of the two combatants.<\/p>\n

The fight was Duhaime\u2019s fourth of the season and his first since December 2, when he went toe-to-toe with Los Angeles Kings defenseman Joel Edmundson. Trouba, who declined a fight with Tom Wilson during the December 5 game<\/a>, had not fought since last March against St. Louis Blues center Brayden Schenn. <\/p>\n

\u201cThat was a huge fight from Dewey there, getting us some momentum, sticking up for Leno,\u201d Sourdif told Monumental Sports Network\u2019s Al Koken. \u201cProps to Trouba, I guess, for answering the bell, and great on Dewey for getting the boys going and avenging Leno there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dylan McIlrath, who suited up in a game for the sixth time this season<\/a>, later fought Ducks tough guy Ross Johnston early in the second period and won his bout decisively.<\/p>\n

While Duhaime\u2019s attempt at justice did little to punish Trouba physically, the 28-year-old winger did seem to spark and wake his team up in the period. The Capitals were down 1-0 at the time of the fight, and the ice was tilted in Anaheim\u2019s favor. After the bout, the Caps turned the tide and eventually went into the first intermission up 2-1 after two goals from Justin Sourdif.<\/p>\n

When the team returned to the ice for the second period, Leonard got the ultimate revenge, scoring his ninth goal of the season and putting the Capitals up 3-1.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brandon Duhaime stepped up to the plate on behalf of teammate Ryan Leonard on Monday night. Duhaime dropped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390685,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-390684","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nhl","8":"tag-nhl","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390684","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=390684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390684\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}