(CNN) — A full five-on-five brawl erupted simply two seconds after the opening puck drop between the New York Rangers and New Jersey Devils at Madison Sq. Backyard on Wednesday.

As soon as the fights had damaged up, eight gamers in whole – 4 from every staff – have been ejected earlier than even enjoying a single minute.

The principle tussle was between Rangers ahead Matt Rempe and Devils defenseman Kurtis MacDermid, who continued to combat at middle ice after the opposite gamers had separated.

When the groups confronted one another at Madison Sq. Backyard final month, the 21-year-old Rempe had declined to combat MacDermid early within the sport.

“I’m all the time going to have a variety of respect for him, he’s a younger child simply attempting to do his factor to remain within the league and I perceive that. He’s going to be taught and he’s a giant, robust, sturdy child,” MacDermid informed reporters after the sport.

He added that he hadn’t anticipated different gamers from each groups becoming a member of in, describing the mass brawl as a “spur of the second” incident.

“It’s nice to see the staff bonding that means and simply having one another’s backs on the market,” stated MacDermid. “After a state of affairs like that, the remainder of the staff accepted a variety of the slack within the minutes and so they performed exhausting and had an superior sport tonight. Simply didn’t get the 2 factors.”

The Rangers went on to win 4-3 after Chris Kreider scored an influence play objective late on within the fiery contest.

New York’s Jacob Trouba, Okay’Andre Miller, Barclay Goodrow and Rempe have been all ejected, whereas New Jersey’s Kevin Bahl, John Marino, Chris Tierney and MacDermid additionally obtained their marching orders.

In the meantime, Rangers head coach Peter Laviolette and Devils interim head coach Travis Inexperienced engaged in a heated change after the brawl.

“There was rather a lot happening,” Inexperienced informed reporters. “Clearly, there have been 5 fights to start out the sport. I don’t know if anybody was anticipating that. It’s an emotional sport.

“So far as Peter and I’m going, I look over and he’s yelling, speaking to me and I’m greater than prepared to go and speak to him and I don’t know why Peter was mad.”

He added: “Their gamers have been lining up fights earlier than the faceoff and none of this is able to have occurred … if one thing occurred the sport earlier than.”

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