College Hockey: January 2009 Archives

First, I will assume there are very few collegiate hockey fans that read this site. With that in mind, allow me to put this in context.

Let's start by saying there is NO fighting in collegiate hockey. That is what will help you understand just how bad this is.

Michigan defenseman Steve Kampfer missed the first 16 games of this season due to a fractured skull from a vicious off-ice assault from at least one of the Wolverine football players October 12, 2008.

Fast forward to Saturday night in Ann Arbor, where rivals Michigan and Michigan State squared off in one of the better college rinks to see a game, Yost Ice Arena. Kampfer lined up and landed a hard, but legal hit on Spartan forward Corey Tropp. Tropp's teammate, freshman forward Andrew Conboy reacted in a very sick way, reminiscent of Todd Bertuzzi's sucker punch on Steve Moore a few years ago, and the results look the same...

More after the jump (and there's a lot more to the story...)...