It’s pretty obvious, well to me anyways since it’s my favorite hockey moment. Funny enough it happened on my birthday, February 22nd 2007, when the Ottawa Senators visited the Buffalo Sabres and the infamous Ray Emery fight night took place.

It all started at the 5:07 mark of the second period after Buffalo took a 3-2 lead on 3 unanswered goals, Chris Neil took it upon himself to get a momentum swing and decided to fight Drew Stafford,  but it didn’t end there! The Sabres took exception to an experience fighter in Neil taking on someone like Stafford so they decided 6 seconds later in the game to start a few more fights.

Not one to shy away from a good old fashion hockey brawl, Ray Emery skated down the ice to take on Sabres goalie Martin Biron, here’s the video of Emery finishing him off:

After disposing of Biron, Emery decided to continue having fun by taking on heavyweight Andrew Peters. You can tell Ray was having fun with the big smile on his face during both fights. Here’s the video of that fight:

Now the game ended in a shootout with Buffalo coming out victorious 6-5, but Emery did not get credited with the loss because the Senators came back after he got tossed (for those keeping stats, he had 2 fightning majors, a 10 minute misconduct and a 2 minute minor for leaving his crease for a total of 22 minutes).

He did however leave that game with the nickname Sugar Ray, which was given to him by the Ottawa media because of the fighting, and Ray Emery’s love of boxing.

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