Bear Knuckle Bouts: Adam McQuaid Renews Acquaintances With Islanders’ Zenon Konopka

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.

Adam McQuaid and Zenon Konopka's second fight of the 2010-11 season was a strange one, as most of the landed punches came from about three inches away.

Konopka grabbed the collar of the B's defenseman early in the bout, and it was from there that he connected on most of his punches –- short, quick jabs into the chin and face of McQuaid.

McQuaid whiffed on a few looping right hooks, but Konopka did not, finishing off the rookie with a big shot to the side of the head.