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Watch the Bruins and Canucks renew hostilities in first period brawl

Milan Lucic, Dan Hamhuis

Boston Bruins’ Milan Lucic, center left, and Vancouver Canucks’ Dan Hamhuis (2) and other members from both teams fight in front of the benches during the first period of an NHL hockey game in Boston, Saturday, Jan. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)

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Seven months apart did nothing to cool tempers between the Bruins and Canucks after their raucous seven-game Stanley Cup finals match-up. The teams got right back after each other just four minutes into their game this afternoon with all sorts of shenanigans breaking loose.

Shawn Thornton and Alex Burrows kicked off jousting with each other when every Canucks player on the ice descended upon Thornton in front of the Vancouver bench. Then everyone joined the party including Milan Lucic apparently coming off the bench to join the scrum. Lucic was kicked out of the game for that and may wind up getting a 10-game suspension for it.

Out of this whole mess the Canucks wound up with a 5-on-3 power play and if you can figure out how that was possible through all this, congratulations. Out of all this there were merely 38 penalty minutes handed out, two misconducts, and one game misconduct.

(Thanks to hockeyfights.com for the video.)