If you’ve never seen an ice hockey game, you might be surprised by these pictures because I think its the only professional sport that allows fights to break out in the middle of the game and most people outside of the US and Canada may not have seen anything like it. Even though fighting is allowed, players who engage in fighting are penalized. The referees normally allow the fight to go on for a little bit until they feel its time to break it up and then hands out a 2 minute or 5 minute penalty to the offending players. Here’s some pictures of fights that took place during a sharks game earlier this week. The opposing team was playing an ugly game, illegally hitting Shark’s players with elbows and so forth, and since the referees didn’t see those incidents and penalize the opposing team, the sharks decided to take it into their own hands and Ryan Clowe (number 25) stepped up and beat the crap out of a opposing player :). Oh and he also scored a goal and had an assist on another goal. In ice hockey terminology that’s a Gordie Howe hat trick .