After what appeared to be a good-natured game of youth hockey in Russia, the teams met at center ice for the traditional post-game handshake. Everything seemed to fine and normal until a fight broke out and the scene devolved into a mess of tiny punches and tiny body checks.
The refs tried to break it up as quickly as possible but there were simply too many rowdy youths to control. Eventually, some onlookers made their way to the ice to finally break things up after a solid 70 seconds of pure mayhem.
We definitely don’t endorse kid-on-kid violence, but the whole thing is pretty cute, especially because everybody appears to come out unscathed.
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