The Coventry Blaze and Cardiff Devils of the British Elite Ice Hockey League played a contentious Challenge Cup game on Sunday evening that saw several controversial penalties called -- and it ended with both teams getting physical after the postgame handshakes. So yeah, quite the rivalry.

But what's led to a League investigation of the postgame pleasantries is this incident between a Cardiff fan and a Coventry player:

As the video shows, Blaze defenseman Benn Olson — formerly of the Albany River Rats, Bridgeport Sound Tigers and Ontario Reign of the ECHL — skated over after a postgame fight and was drawn into an altercation with a fan. Blaze defenseman Mike Egener skated in to make the save, sparking a wild scene.

According to the BBC, South Wales police were called by the fan to claim he had been assaulted by a player, but the officers decided that the fan had "instigated the altercation" and was egged on by friends to get into the brawl.

From the BBC:

South Wales Police confirmed they were called to the Cardiff Devils game by a spectator who complained about being assaulted by a player. The force spokeswoman said further questioning by officers revealed the complainant had instigated the altercation and he was given advice about his behaviour.

Neither the player concerned nor the club wanted to take the matter further so the incident has been closed, she added.

But the Devils did take some action of their own after the incident: They've banned the spectator from attending any Cardiff games for the remainder of the season.

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Getty ImagesThe NHL's offices in New York are closed on Monday due to Hurricane Sandy, as Gary Bettman and Donald Fehr rent themselves out to coastal areas in need of massive amounts of sandbagging.

But when the storm passes, another blast of cold air will hit NHL fans: The Winter Classic is expected to be canceled on Thursday, according to Katie Strang of ESPN.com and the scuttlebutt we're heard elsewhere Monday.

This has been in the cards for weeks, obviously, as the cancellation of the schedule stretched through November. It's become less a concern that the NHL couldn't pull off the event in a truncated schedule — it totally could, even if the Classic kicked off a shortened 2012-13 season — than whether the NHL should attempt to stage the game with a proper run-up of marketing and with the bitter aftertaste of the lockout affected the good vibes of the annual event.

We shall miss you, awesome Winter Classic jerseys. At least for a year.

Getty ImagesRyan Suter took a stand last week.

The Minnesota Wild defenseman was asked by Craig Custance of ESPN The Magazine about the NHL's owners negotiating in bad faith, given the contracts they handed out and the reduction of the players' share of revenues for which they're asking.

Suter believed the owners were, in fact, negotiating in bad faith — and targeted his new owner Craig Leipold in the process:

"It's disappointing. If you can't afford to (sign contracts) then you shouldn't do it," Suter said. "(Leipold) signed us to contracts. At the time he said everything was fine. Yeah, it's disappointing. A couple months before, everything is fine, and now they want to take money out of our contracts that we already signed."

Whammy! Great stuff from Suter, who was one of the only NHLPA members bold enough to take on the person signing his checks.

[Related: Winter Classic expected to be canceled on Thursday, according to report]

Oh, wait, he totally backtracked less than 48 hours later, didn't he?

Monique Lamoureux, Jenny Potter and Jocelyne Lamoureux from April 2010/Getty ImagesGRAND FORKS, ND — "Don't mention the Sedins."

That was our mantra before speaking with Jocelyne and Monique Lamoureux, U.S. Olympic silver medalists and senior stars for the University of North Dakota. It's the inevitable, clichéd comparison that befalls every pair of hockey twins.

It's not even applicable in their case. The Lamoureux's aren't carbon copies like the Vancouver Canucks' Swedes. While both can play forward, Monique Lamoureux has been featured on defense for UND. Also, they're not totally creepy.

What they are: The spawn of Pierre and Linda Lamoureux of Grand Forks, two of six children that have gone on to play collegiate hockey. The family was featured in a memorable 2010 article by Gary Smith in Sports Illustrated, which chronicled how Jocelyne and Monique honed their hockey skills by competing with their ruthless (on the ice, at least) brothers.

We caught up with the Lamoureux twins, 23, in Grand Forks last week, discussing the 2014 Sochi Games, their rivalry with Team Canada, hockey idols and social media. (Our discussion about the end of the Fighting Sioux nickname will appear in a later piece.

But first, a bit about a prank war with the men's team …

Q. We've been trying to get a sense of the dynamic between the men's and women's teams on campus.

Monique: [Laughs] There's a bit of a prank war going on at the moment.

Jocelyne: We haven't really taken part in one …

You national teamers have to stay above the fray. Got it.

Jocelyne: [Laughs] I think we're winning it. But I know Mary's [Loken] car was filled with leaves.

Monique: She leaves her keys in the car, so they took it and moved it. And when she found it, they had filled it up with leaves all the way to the [roof].

Jocelyne: But [the women players] put two cans of sardines in one of the guys' cars. Just, like, stuffed them in the cushions. They were trying to air out the car last night. It's like marinated in there.

Monique: [The prank] we did last night was similar to 'Billy Madison'.

Flaming bag of poop?

Monique: Yeah.

Where does one get the poop?

Monique and Jocelyne: [In near unison] Dog.

Getty ImagesFor the last three months, NHL players have taken aim at Gary Bettman as the root of all lockout evil while dutifully avoiding the opportunity to munch on the hand that fed them their robust contracts.

Zach Parise of the Minnesota Wild was one of Bettman's most vocal critics from the start; he finally spread the blame to the owners last week in the Star Tribune:

"You have all these owners signing big deals minutes before the CBA expires and then going the next day, 'We don't want to pay these contracts," Parise said. "Maybe that's how they conduct business. That just doesn't seem right. What if us players signed a deal and said, 'You know what, I actually want 15 percent more?'"

Parise specifically said he wasn't "singling out" Wild owner Craig Leipold, who signed both the former New Jersey Devils captain and former Nashville Predators defenseman Ryan Suter to identical 13-year, $98-million contracts on July 4.

But in an interview with Craig Custance of ESPN.com on Friday, Suter finally had the chutzpah to call out Leipold for potentially negotiating their deals in bad faith — even though the evidence points to something different.

The Charlotte Checkers of the American Hockey League play their home opener on Nov. 4 vs. the Chicago Wolves, and the team is doing whatever it can to drum up interest. Even if it means choreographed tomfoolery like a players and ice girls version of "Ice Ice Baby," the classic tune by Caucasian hip-hop legend and admirer of Queen baselines Robert Van Winkle.

Here are the Checkers, with a healthy dose of early 1990s nostalgia, sending word to your mother:

The players featured in this Vanilla Ice tribute are Justin Krueger (3), Victor Rask (10), Michal Jordan (29; what, no Scottay Pippen?), Riley Nash (20) and Sean Dolan (16).

For those keeping score at home: Krueger is rocking the hoodie and shaking his moneymaker; Dolan was sporting the handkerchief like a Crip; and Rask was the one at the 37-second mark that appeared to be churning butter. Or something.

We appreciate the Checkers giving this their best effort, fully aware that anything less than the best is a felony.

CHBHere are your Puck Headlines: a glorious collection of news and views collected from the greatest blogosphere in sports and the few, the proud, the mainstream hockey media.

• Via Canucks Hockey Blog; not pictured: Precioussssss HRR. Counting down the minutes until we receive our first Fehr-as-Gandalf 'Shop.

• Does Mario Lemieux need to get more involved in the CBA talks? "No one in hockey — not even Wayne Gretzky — could command greater respect in this specific setting than what Lemieux could deliver by walking into one of those meetings. Not with his unique background as someone who made his fortune as a Hall of Fame player, who adds to it as an owner and who once did both at the same time." [Tribune Review]

• How much will the Philadelphia Flyers lose with November's games canceled? $14.16 million. [CSN Philly]

• How much will the Pittsburgh Penguins lose per game during November? $2.2 million. [Pensblog]

• David Stern vs. Gary Bettman. [Philly.com]

• Youth hockey coach gets 10-year ban for punching player in back of head. [Buzzing The Net]

• The Boston Bruins' Claude Julien will coach the Winthrop Squirt B youth hockey team after the team won a raffle for his services. Congrats, parents who've always wanted their children to play really, really annoying hockey with occasional outbursts of violence. [Bruins Blog]

• Interesting breakdown on Buffalo Sabres goalie and Milan Lucic tackling sled Ryan Miller: "I feel confident in saying that Miller is a top ten goalie and still one of the best in the game." [Dobber Hockey]

• Did Bruce Boudreau want the Washington Capitals to succeed in the playoffs? "I think human nature dictates that I didn't want them to win. I think that's just human nature. I was hoping for some players to have success and players I really like to do well and they did, but quite frankly nobody ever admits it -- and maybe I just did -- but I wasn't exactly pulling for them because it would have validated me losing my job." [NHL.com]