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Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:34 am EDT

Fight Videos: Raitis Ivanans, Riley Cote drop training camp bombs

By Greg Wyshynski

Unfortunately, Los Angeles Kings fighter Raitis Ivanans and the Philadelphia Flyers' MMA-trained Riley Cote didn't square off in the same game. But both had sharp preseason fights last night, starting with Ivanans making Adam Keefe's hair fly around like Fabio at a modeling shoot:

Let's give Keefe some respect for hanging in there ... but "ouch." The Kings defeated the Phoenix Coyotes, 6-4, in a split-squad game last night. The other half of the Kings were playing in the first NHL game ever at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, where an underwhelming crowd of 11,603 saw the Kings beat the St. Louis Blues, 2-1. No Anze Kopitar, Alexander Frolov, Brad Boyes or Keith Tkachuk; plenty of sunshine from Kings president and AEG executive Tim Leiweke on the future of hockey in KC.

Riley Cote, meanwhile, watched fellow Flyers goon Steve Downie score two goals against the New Jersey Devils, as Philadelphia secured a 4-1 win. Good to see the Devils power-play in mid-season form already. Cote fought rookie Pierre-Luc Letourneau-Leblond, whose name makes Jean-Francois Damphousse look like Bob Smith by comparison. Here's Cote, bringing some heat in a tight fight:

Check here for a Flyers' fan-eyed view of the Cote fight.

There were also a couple of scraps in the Buffalo/Toronto game that you can check out on HockeyFights.com if you need to. You see names like Andrew Peters, Ryan Hollweg and Patrick Kaleta, and you get excited; and then the fights never get going. So sad. Not as sad as failing to sell out a game in which the tickets were given away for free in Toronto. But still sad.

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  1. Dan the TEA Man
    1. Posted by Dan the TEA Man Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:34 pm EDT

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    YEAH! Old-time hockey, baby!
  2. flyersrule
    2. Posted by flyersrule Thu Sep 03, 2009 7:25 pm EDT

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    great article
  3. flyrgrl72
    3. Posted by flyrgrl72 Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:01 pm EDT

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    and another season begins...yeah, baby!! i love this sport!!!!
  4. Firebird7478
    4. Posted by Firebird7478 Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:25 pm EDT

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    Why do you post these videos? You mock the fighters by calling them goons as if you dissaprove, but then you show the video. Can't have it both ways.
  5. J.S.
    5. Posted by J.S. Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:29 pm EDT

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    who said goon was mocking the fighters? where i come from, goon is used for any player whose primary skill is to drop the gloves and throw punches.
  6. carl_vs_mastershake
    6. Posted by carl_vs_mastershake Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:18 pm EDT

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    Wysh it was an OK fight unless you count shots to the shoulder pads and chest protector.
    Also the Devils PP was Elias Holik Rolston in case you couldn't see the game in DC
  7. Ray
    7. Posted by Ray Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:31 pm EDT

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    riley cote kicks #@# he is one if not the toughest guy in the nhl glad he is on the flyers this guy can throw them with the best look forward to many @#$ kickings this winter keep up the good job if hockey does not work out go the the ufc mr cote
  8. hockeytown blood
    8. Posted by hockeytown blood Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:42 pm EDT

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    Really nice how Bananas takes his helmet off AFTER the fight. It should be a mandatory rule - helmets off during a fight or automatic misconduct, or why not just leave the gloves on too. Retarded.
  9. Daniel Alekseyanov Rendon
    9. Posted by Daniel Alekseyanov Rendon Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:49 pm EDT

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    Cote is MMA-Semi trained. but Leblonde trains in the off-season in Georges St. Pierre DoJo. so he has the Upperhand against alot of players. he reminds me of Marc-Andre Roy. (former Canucks drafty) He racked them UP in QMJHL and tried to be a Gretzky in the AHL. but Coach wanted the old Roy. never happend. so got sent to ECHL. now he is "MIA". as for Ratty. he is a HANDFULL.
  10. mitchconnor
    10. Posted by mitchconnor Thu Sep 03, 2009 8:25 pm EDT

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    if i remember correctly, cote focuses on the balancing aspects of mma so that he's harder to wheel out of position and knock down. he doesn't win every fight but he doesn't back down from anyone either. i much prefer him to ben eager, who didn't seem to care so much about picking his battles. he just wanted to fight whenever, and that's not a good thing.
    i always thought that a goon was someone who could basically fight and do nothing else, like link gaetz used to be. i wouldn't call downie a goon because he actually has skill, believe it or not.
  11. slippy swammi sammi....samsonite!
    11. Posted by slippy swammi sammi....samsonite! Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:48 pm EDT

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    I agree with you flyrgrl72...I love this sport. Hockey is the greatest game!
    GO WINGS!
  12. JohnB
    12. Posted by JohnB Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:47 pm EDT

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    12 i hate to break to you but Cote is one of the best pound for pound fighters in the league. Orr isn't all that great. Orr is really good at using his face to catch fists, thats about it. I think him and Andrew Peters compete for the bottom 2 in the league. You sound like a sad little Ranger fan that lost Jagr, Straka, Nylander... aka your whole team. Cheers!
  13. DENNIS C
    13. Posted by DENNIS C Thu Sep 03, 2009 3:41 pm EDT

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    13 one of the best pound for pound fighters in the league...........first of all u cant be serious...second of all this is not boxing it is hockey there is no pound for pound...there is not weight classes in this sport jackass...as for Orr being in the bottom two now i know u have no clue. I am a ranger fan but not sad at all; Jagr was finished; and straka and nylander were finished way before him; yeah i could deal with jagr staying but i much rather have zherdev; and naslund then straka and nylander; and just watch as the season progresses because u know ur flyers are not winning.........just like ur phillies, eagles and 76ers.............DICKIE THON FOR PRESIDENT...........
  14. Joe E-Devils onslaught
    14. Posted by Joe E-Devils onslaught Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:38 pm EDT

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    "Devils power-play in mid-season form", yeah well I would treat that statement as sarcastic if it wasn't so moronic. Mid-season form at the first game of pre-season would be compared to last season I am guessing. Yeah well two players that will be integral parts of the power-play (Rolston, Holik) didn't play for the Devils last year. Don't worry the Devils power-play, well it is good to see a blogger voicing such objective opinions. Oh yeah I agree players should take off their helmets when they brawl. It is stupid to keep them on.
  15. mikeycards
    15. Posted by mikeycards Thu Sep 03, 2009 2:44 pm EDT

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    Cote is a beasttt
  16. big audio
    16. Posted by big audio Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:04 pm EDT

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    The Devils will be the same as they always are ... stingy on goals allowed, and challenged on goals for. The question is, will the ability to prevent goals win more games than the inability to score goals will lose games.
    Love the fights, get them now while you can. Coaches who's jobs are on a string are less likely to use an enforcer on a regular basis and that is one part of this new NHL that really stinks. Especially in the NY/NJ/LI area. At least Orr gets to dress for the games when he is healthy. Got to be in it to win it. Orr is a good fighter and not a total risk defensively when he is out there. So he gets points for being in the lineup regularly, as opposed to many other enforcers.
  17. MoltarRocks
    17. Posted by MoltarRocks Thu Sep 03, 2009 4:15 pm EDT

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    Sorry, you lost me at Downie being a goon. The hit on McCammond was clean. They suspended him because he's young, IMO. If that was Scott Stevens, say 3-4 years before he retired, he'd have gotten zilch.
  18. DON_DOC_IN
    18. Posted by DON_DOC_IN Thu Sep 03, 2009 10:26 pm EDT

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    The hit on McCammond was clean? Cmon, you must be kidding. No one is really that dumb, are they? It is not cause he is young, it is because he is a stupid, classless punk. I watched him all throughout juniors, one of the dirtiest cheapest players I have ever seen. He is neck and neck with Steve Ott in that category

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