Watch: Referee delivers oddly emphatic penalty call for 'fighting!'
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Torey Krug and Andrew Shaw settled a score, and the referee seemed pretty fired up about it.
After the two players kicked off the latest meeting between the Boston Bruins and Montreal Canadiens with a round of fisticuffs, referee Wes McCauley made the penalty call with much enthusiasm.
Five minutes each for FIGHTING! pic.twitter.com/suBQpnfCM4
— Marina Molnar (@mkmolnar) February 13, 2017
The fight, by the way, was a result of a hit levied on Shaw by Krug that cost the Canadiens defenseman 14 games due to concussion earlier this season.
Shaw took back the upper hand with this one.
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