Inside a hockey fight: NHL heavyweights explain why a good grip matters above everything

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Inside a hockey fight: NHL heavyweights explain why a good grip matters above everything
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How Matt Rempe, Ryan Reaves and other top fighters use their non-punching hand to land their biggest blows.

Things did not start well for . On March 19, , the 6-foot-2, 226-pound heavyweight, grabbed a fistful of Deslauriers’ jersey with his left hand and started swinging with his right. Deslauriers, meanwhile, was waving his left hand to grab anything attached to Reaves — jersey, shoulder, arm. Advertisement The enforcer kept missing.

It let him breach Rempe’s perimeter. The fight tilted in Reaves’ direction. He landed several rights. Linesmen James Tobias and Shandor Alphonso stopped the fight with both men on their skates, still squared off. Reaves and Rempe drop em' 🥊 — Sportsnet “I just had to make sure there was a way for me to get inside,” said Reaves. “With his reach, when he first grabbed me, he wasn’t allowing me to do that. So I had to be patient and make sure I moved him well.

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