History Main / HockeyFight

* ''Mutant League Hockey'' has a simple fighting minigame, and every player has a stat that determines his fighting skill. With penalties off, there's no punishment for fighting, and both participants keep playing as before; with penalties on, the winner goes to the penalty box for one minute while the loser goes in for three. There's also lots of other violence, especially with penalties off, since there are no rules at that point -- you can make checks with punches, your stick, or even axes, hammers, and chainsaws.

* Russia's hockey league, the KHL. One such fight between the teams of Avangard Omsk and Vityaz Chekhov saw the referees call the game off early because there was no one left to play the game since they'd all been ejected. The teams were fined over five million rubles and had the game counted as a double loss.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the [[CanadaEh Acerian]] immigrant Antoinette de Badin-Boucher arrives in Ankh-Morpork as a student at the assassins' school and is so obsessed with hockey that she sets up a rink in the Pork Futures Warehouse. Ten years later, it's an official hockey venue, and she invites fellow Acerians (and [[UsefulNotes/{{Finland}} Swommi people]]) to come play there. Most of the games involve fighting, with a little hockey in between. It certainly suits the paying customers in Ankh-Morpork in any event.

* ''Film/SlapShot'' is the [[TropeCodifier seminal example]] of a hockey fighting movie: A down-on-its-luck hockey team in a Pennsylvania mining town hires three brothers who do nothing but [[UnnecessaryRoughness beat the shit out of their opponents]], and it not only helps the team win, but it drums up fan interest and saves them from folding. The BigGame at the end sees an OpposingSportsTeam made up of the most brutal players they could find (some of whom had been banned from the sport for [[NoodleIncident unelaborated reasons]]), and the whole thing devolves into a bloody riot on the ice (and [[MakesAsMuchSenseInContext a striptease]]). The film was made in TheSeventies and shows the trope as it was seen then, with frequent "line brawls" and bench-clearing melees, fighting during the breaks, fighting before the game even starts,[[note]]One of the funniest images of the film is the Hansen brothers standing solemnly for the national anthem with their faces spattered with blood[[/note]] the entire team (save the one skill-guy) totally okay with joining in the fighting, and no real discussion as to whether that much fighting degrades the game -- and when ''they'' refer to "old-time hockey", you wonder what kind of violence ''they'' grew up with.