Reaves And Gabriel Start the period with a big fight, a breakdown

Mar 8, 2021 1.7M views 3:01

What Happened

Jomboy broke down a March 2021 NHL scrap between Vegas Golden Knights enforcer Ryan Reaves and an opponent who had been chirping him all night, jawing 'fight me' and saying after the game that Reaves told him he wasn't worth his time. At the start of the third period both players lined up on the fourth line, dropped their gloves and sticks once the puck hit the ice, and squared off. After some early jabs and missed haymakers, the opponent went for a body shot, dropped his guard, and Reaves countered with a clean right to the cheekbone. Reaves skated off taunting him for talking too much.

Why This Matters

Hockey fighting still lives in a gray zone where the NHL allows it under a five-minute major penalty even as concussion concerns grow. This clip shows why teams keep an enforcer like Reaves around: he answers the bell, controls the spacing, and lands the one punch that ends the conversation. The detail Jomboy zeroes in on is the body-shot mistake. The challenger dropped his hands to go low, and Reaves immediately found the open face. That's the difference between a guy who fights for a living and a guy looking to prove a point. The post-game quote about not being 'worth his time' set the whole thing up, and Reaves got the last word with both fists and his mouth. For Vegas in the 2020-21 season, having that physical presence mattered as they pushed toward the playoffs.

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Key Moments

Who / What Is Involved

Players: Ryan Reaves, Barclay Goodrow. Teams: Lightning.

Ryan Reaves Barclay Goodrow

Key Terms Mentioned

Bench Clearing Brawl

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so gabriel is trying to fight reeves

he's going to him pretty game show he's

like fight me fight me fight me he said

in his post game

conference that reeves told him he

wasn't worth his time eventually start

of the third period they line up next to

each other both on the fourth line

everyone's waiting for the puck to drop

gabriel circles around

skates next to reeves roof says hey okay

you want to go now

all right i'm ready he stares him down

here we go they're just standing around

waiting

all right thank you for thank you for

accepting my challenge reeves

puck gets dropped and so do their sticks

and so do their gloves

and everyone stands around and a little

stretching by gabriel making sure the

shin pads are on good

make sure all the pads are on good and

he comes at him with the left

and reeves kind of just laughs at him

he's like now you got that what you're

going to do

not here they both grab for each other

reeves gets the jersey one punch against

the visor another punch against the

visor

and then they've got to retake their

balance a little jab there by gabriel

now this is his move he takes his right

hand

puts it on reeve's hand throws that to

kind of twist

reeves and then comes with a big punch

misses up top

reeves counters with another miss they

both fall down they get up before the

refs can stop it

and now reeves is gonna throw a big

punch and then two more punches and then

he's gonna put his helmet back on his

head for him

like you're gonna need this dude because

i'm still coming at you comes off again

i think i think gabriel tries to do his

move again yeah there's his move again

look

right hand throws it over tries to spin

him throws a big punch kind of misses

again

and then goes for the jab gets his

helmet out of there and now he tries for

it again

and now he's gonna go for a body shot

and

and that was as big as a mistake because

look he goes for this body shot and it

goes complete puppet on him

just comes up the other end and that

leaves reeves with the chance at his

face and that connects right there

bam right there look look oh

boom right to the cheekbone that's the

best punch that landed that's probably

the best punch that's landed in one of

these hockey breakdown fights that i've

done in a while

and reeves knows he goes oh ho ho i got

a little something right there baby

let's [ __ ] go come on gabriel skates

to the bench got his fight

got punched shouldn't have talked that

[ __ ] [ __ ]

huh don't talk that [ __ ] [ __ ]

gabriel's like oh why are you saying

that it's a friendly fight dude

okay it's a friendly fight i asked if

you'd fight you said we fight we're just

fire

freddy fight no need for the [ __ ]

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