I couldn’t make heads or tails of the last five minutes last night at the American Airlines Center. Now it all makes sense, or something. From the Rocky Mountain News:
With five minutes remaining, Laperriere said, Fedoruk told him before a faceoff he planned to fight defenseman Kurt Sauer, who is 6-4 and 220 pounds but hardly is a fighter.
“(Fedoruk) said, ‘I have to do something, I haven’t done anything. I have to go after somebody,’” Laperriere said. “Well, he won’t go past me.”
OK, well, that makes sense. Little guy standing up for the non-fighter. But why did Lappy lose his cool? Oh, he wanted to:
Laperriere wasn’t penalized after the altercation, but he was given the heave-ho during the Avalanche’s ensuing power play for high-sticking and cross-checking Stars forward Jussi Jokinen.
“I thought it was a stupid move by Fedoruk,” Laperriere said. “I told their bench, ‘The next time I’m out there, I’ll do something stupid.’ It was a clean, stupid thing, I guess.”
Mission accomplished, Lappy.