{"id":430651,"date":"2026-01-26T10:34:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/430651\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T10:34:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:34:10","slug":"logan-thompson-recalls-first-professional-goalie-fight-not-eager-to-get-into-one-in-nhl-i-feel-like-most-goalies-are-bigger-than-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/430651\/","title":{"rendered":"Logan Thompson recalls first professional goalie fight, not eager to get into one in NHL: \u2018I feel like most goalies are bigger than me\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sergei Bobrovsky and Alex Nedeljkovic recently got into the first goalie fight in the NHL in six years<\/a>. The two backstops duked it out during a third-period scrum between the Florida Panthers and San Jose Sharks, earning a combined 14 penalty minutes.<\/p>\n

While the Washington Capitals have seen both of their netminders, Logan Thompson and Charlie Lindgren, get into near-bouts<\/a> of their own this season<\/a>, their confrontations were stopped by on-ice officials before they could throw any punches.<\/p>\n

Thompson was asked about Bobrovsky and Nedeljkovic\u2019s fight during an appearance on Sportsnet\u2019s After Hours, Saturday night<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s awesome,\u201d Thompson said<\/a>. \u201cI mean, you always love to see a goalie fight. When your goalies are sticking up for your teammates like they are, they\u2019re just doing it for the guys. And your team loves it. All the guys love it.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Thompson didn\u2019t chuck his knucks earlier this season, the 28-year-old goaltender has had a prior fight during his professional career. And, it came while he was a member of the Capitals\u2019 minor-league system.<\/p>\n

During a December 15, 2019, ECHL game between the South Carolina Stingrays and the Jacksonville Icemen, Michael McNiven challenged Thompson to a fight<\/a>. The then Hershey Bears prospect got the better of McNiven in the contest, landing the only punches and earning the final takedown.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Thompson and McNiven each received five-minute fighting majors and an additional 10-minute game misconduct for getting into a secondary altercation. The ejected Thompson was replaced in net by current Capitals practice goaltender and emergency backup, Parker Milner<\/a>, who finished the 2-1 Stingrays victory.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m not a fighter,\u201d Thompson said. \u201cI like to be a lover, but I remember that game. I think we were up 2-0, with I think like five minutes left in the game, and he just skated down, and I didn\u2019t really have a choice, so I just took my gear off. I didn\u2019t want to be the guy to say no, and luckily, I dodged a couple punches and didn\u2019t get hit.\u201d<\/p>\n

While he was successful in his lone fight, Thompson says he has no desire to put on a repeat performance now with the Capitals in the NHL.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like most goalies are bigger than me, so I don\u2019t know how I\u2019ll do,\u201d Thompson said.<\/p>\n

Thompson and Lindgren have been able to avoid dropping their gloves and equipment this season, but another Caps-affiliated goalie hasn\u2019t. At the beginning of this month, prospect Garin Bjorklund got into a fight for the Stingrays against Greensboro Gargoyles backstop Nikita Quapp<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bjorklund\u2019s bout may just be evidence that something in the water in South Carolina is fueling goalie combat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sergei Bobrovsky and Alex Nedeljkovic recently got into the first goalie fight in the NHL in six years.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430652,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-430651","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\/430651","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=430651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430652"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}