Sunday’s Stadium Series game between the Tampa Bay Lightning and Boston Bruins had one of the most outrageous moments in outdoor game history when goalies Andrei Vasilevskiy (Lightning) and Jeremy Swayman (Bruins) got into a fight in the second period. It all started following a skirmish around the Boston net that infuriated Swayman.
As he started to take swings at Lightning players around, Vasilevskiy took it upon himself to skate the length of the ice and get involved.
That was when the goalie equipment came off, and punches started to get thrown.
Jeremy Swayman and Andrei Vasilevskiy fight in Stadium Series game
There are a lot of things that make this fight such a rarity.
For one, fighting in general has been declining in the NHL for two decades now, and it is especially rare in outdoor games.
Goalie fights are even rarer, and until this moment had never actually happened in one of the NHL’s outdoor games.
Here is a look at the fight.