Kudos to Detroit Hockey Now’s Bob Duff. Duff managed to track down clips of both Marco Kasper and Nate Danielson’s scraps from the Grand Rapids Griffins-Rockford IceHogs game on Saturday night, with Marco Kasper squaring off against Colton Dach, and Danielson fighting Isak Phillips:
Both Danielson (ninth overall, 2023 NHL entry draft) and Kasper (eighth overall, 2022) were throwing down on Saturday as the Grand Rapids Griffins were dropping a 4-1 road decision in an AHL game against the Rockford IceHogs. And while neither is going to be mistaken for Bob Probert or Joe Kocur, both held their own in their respective bouts. And each would score high marks from the judges regarding their enthusiasm for the project.
With less than four minutes to go in the, Kasper got into a disagreement with Rockford’s Colton Dach in front of the Rockford bench. Ultimately, they would drop the gloves. Kasper displayed impressive defensive skills during the bout and even got in a solid right hand tangling with the 6-foot-3, 193-pound Dach, younger brother of Montreal Canadiens forward Kirby Dach.
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Playing junior in the rugged WHL, Danielson certainly isn’t unfamiliar to mayhem on the ice. At the end of the second period of Saturday’s game, a scrum was forming behind the IceHogs net. Originally going after Rockford’s Cole Guttman, Danielson wound up dropping the gloves with Isaak Phillips.
I’m not surprised that Red Wings Prospects on Twitter posted the Kasper fight…
Marco Kasper first Pro Fight 👊🏻#LGRW #GoGRG pic.twitter.com/JWMZFW8dx2
— Red Wings Prospects (@LGRWProspects) October 13, 2024
But it looks like finding the Danielson fight was something of an odyssey:
Cole Guttman gets into it with Nate Danielson after the period was over. Leads to a scrum and Isaak Phillips gets a few punches in on Danielson. #Blackhawks #LGRW #IceHogs pic.twitter.com/5JgkRY13jC
— Chicago Prospects (@Chi_Prospects) October 13, 2024
You don’t want to see Kasper and Danielson become regular combatants, but Kasper more than held his own, and Danielson didn’t back down, though Phillips got the best of him.
