"Good buddies" Corrente and Stoesz drop the gloves

Defenseman Matt Corrente continued his trend of fighting during training camp practices by fighting Myles Stoesz during a scrimmage this morning.

"It was the heat of the moment," Corrente explained. "We kind of got the sticks up and it went from there. There was no animosity."

The fight ended without a winner. In fact, both players just stopped punching.

"We looked at each other and we did what we had to do, it was a good fight, there was mutual respect there," he said.

In fact, Stoesz gave Corrente a tap of appreciation on the top of his helmet after the fifht was over.

"We're good buddies," Corrente said. "He followed me down here. He lived in Toronto a few years ago."

Corrente said the players have not been instructed not to fight during camp, but were told they didn't need to show how tough they are and that there was no need for staged fights.

Of the fight, Devis coach Jacques Lemaire said, "Good fight" and laughed.

He didn't sound as if he thought it was necessary, though.

"There will be time for this," he said.

Comments

[heather d]

hey there i was wondering if you could let me know if the devils are looking to sign delahey to a contract to keep him there in the system and have him give up his last year of junior elegibility or not thanks...

sincerly

regina pats fan

[Speedz]

in the picture in the previous blog, who's the guy in the red? I know white is Langenbrunner.

[Speedz]

oh nvm i see, patrice cormier.

[NJromano]

the only solution i can come up with is either playing zubrus on the 2nd line at center an put cormier or walters on 3rd line center until elias is back..

or breakin up zzpop temperarly an havin Parise center the 1st line an zajak center the 2nd line until elias comes back or we aquire another center

Rolston - Parise - Langs
zharkov - Zajak - Clarkson
Shanny - Zubrus - bergfors
Pando - Pelley - Pikka

this would suck but desprit times call for desprit measures.. and for what we have in the system this is the best i could do with spreading out scoring an toughness as well as chemistry.. PL3/Halishuk/walters an peters can be extras fillin in for shanny an pando as needed if needed...... im stuck on who would be 2nd line left wing tho, im thinkin either zharkov or Davis..

what do you guys think?

[Speedz]

It's not the worse idea, but we'll still have to develope Bergfors so i'd switch him with Clarkie. It'll be rought but you have to start from some where. I think we're all just being a little overly drastic and dramatic though. Patty's going to be fine and hopefully things will fall into place. I don't know about Parise as center.. Maybe now that he's established himself, he'd be more solid with it, he's just that good, but i'd like him to be in a position to succeed. So far, that's been the wing.

[Speedz]

worst*

[YEAHw/e]

you dont split up ZZpops...u just dont

[NJromano]

parise is an elite forward an i feel if needed him an elias are the only wingers capable of havin to switch to center if necasary

[Neil S]

TG has pointed out already that Parise struggled at center early in his career, and an experiment to put him at center again didn't last long. I'd rather see Zubrus back centering the 2nd line until Elias is healthy again than break up the Devils best line.

[devilsfan]

Corrente really needs to play smarter, one he's not that great a fighter and more importantly in this case he fights a stiff that's the spare forward on a good ECHL team. There's no point to it.