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Watch: Tomas Plekanec drops mitts for first career fight

Toma Plekanec (Getty Images)
Toma Plekanec (Getty Images)

Tomas Plekanec took his sweet time to announce to the hockey world that he is, indeed, a heavyweight.

Well, not quite, but he did engage in his first official NHL scrap on Thursday as he hesitantly dropped the gloves with Arizona Coyotes forward Brad Richardson. The Canadiens forward took a lot (and I mean a lot) more punches then he threw, but he respectably stood in there, clung to Richardson’s sweater like a seatbelt, and hung on just long enough to survive.

Plekanec also apparently landed a sneaky little bomb to Richardson’s nose at some point during the encounter, as the Coyotes centreman was leaking a bit of blood throughout the tilt.

It was Plekanec’s 941st career NHL game, and his very first — and probably last — fight.