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.
The eighth week of Bruins fights saw plenty of fists fly between the B's and their longtime rivals from Montreal, the Canadiens.
Tensions were high between the Original Six foes on Feb. 9 in Boston as the Black and Gold emerged with an 8-6 victory. The back-and-forth bout saw both teams rack up 182 penalty minutes and featured usual suspects Johnny Boychuk, Gregory Campbell, Andrew Ference and Shawn Thornton dropping the gloves.
The fisticuffs were not limited to just the tough guys, however. Playmaker David Krejci got in on the action by taking on Benoit Pouliot while netminder Tim Thomas sent the TD Garden crowd into a frenzy when he skated to center ice to meet Carey Price.
In the only non-Habs fight of the week, Adam McQuaid met Islanders' center Zenon Konopka for the duo's second bout of the season.
Here is the complete list of the Week 8 nominees (click the links to watch the fights).
