A targeted injection of hockey violence to begin your Thursday evening. First up is Zack Kassian of the Windsor Spitfires destroys the Barrie Colts’ Matt Kennedy, a dirty piece of work that’s gonna cost young Kassian 20 games.

Next, Cam Janssen fucked up Carey Price pretty good last night.

But this last one’s in a different league, literally and figuratively. As some of you well know by now, the biggest brawl in professional hockey history took place a few weeks back in Moscow during a KHL match between Vityaz Chekhov and Avangard Omsk. The two teams started throwing punches 3 minutes and 27 seconds into the game. After three more brawls – one at 3:34 in, one at 3:37, and one at 3:39 – the game had to be called, since both teams had run out of players. More than 56 minutes were left in the game, but that was it; they were done. In under 4 minutes, 691 penalty minutes were awarded to 30 players. Jaromir Jagr even got involved – look out for #68 and his trademark mullet.

Be sure to watch the last ninety seconds. Classic material.

Yesterday, Moscow prosecutors launched a criminal investigation into the record-breaking melee: “An article of the Russian criminal code could punish the players in the form of community service for a period of 180 to 240 hours, or correctional labor for a term of one to two years, or imprisonment for a term not exceeding five years.”

- Caps