Bear Knuckle Bouts: Adam McQuaid Has Impressive Showing Against Paul Gaustad in Mid-March Fight at TD Garden

Editor's note: Every day leading up to the start of the 2011-12 season, NESN.com will post one fight  from the 2010-11 Bruins season. At the end of each week, fans can vote for what they thought was the best fight of the week, and after every fight has been posted, they can vote on which fight was the best of the year.

In a little mix-up behind the play, Bruins defenseman Adam McQuaid and Sabres center Paul Gaustad dropped the gloves late in the second period. Gaustad landed some solid uppercuts with the right hand and ripped McQuaid's bucket off with the left. Wrong move.

After losing the helmet, McQuaid landed some solid rights to the head of Gaustad, popping off the helmet in the process. When it was all said and done 30 seconds later, McQuaid came out on top after the lengthy bout.