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Colorado Avalanche Detroit Red Wings brawl and fights 1997 part-1 Severyn-Pushor Corbet-Maltby Forsberg-Larionov Lemieux-McCarty Roy-Vernon Deadmarsh-Konstantinov Foote-Shanahan Keane-Holmstrom Severyn-Ward Deadmarsh-McCarty Krupp-Pushor WINGS FANS WANTED BLOOD, REVENGE – THEY GOT IT MITCH ALBOM. Detroit Free Press. March 27, 1997. Darren McCarty will never pay for a meal in this town again. In two explosive moments that embody all that is right with hockey and all that is wrong with it, McCarty made an unforgettable impression on this Detroit Red Wings season. In the first moment, he bloodied the game. In the second, he won it. Let us begin with the first, late in the opening period Wednesday night, when he spun away from a linesman and coldcocked Colorado’s Claude Lemieux in the face. Lemieux fell to his knees, fans jumped to their feet, and you could kiss any chance of a normal hockey game this evening good-bye. It was Fight Night now at Joe Louis Arena. And McCarty wasn’t finished. He whacked Lemieux again with a left- handed fist, and when Lemieux curled into a crouch, holding his bleeding face, McCarty held him by the back of the neck with one hand and swung repeatedly with the other, throwing punches that seemed to have the force of the entire, roaring building behind them. Before he was done, McCarty would drag Lemieux, stunned and bloody, to the front of the Wings bench, like a caveman dragging his kill to the front of his cave, showing it off for the others. All …