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.
Nathan Horton's seventh fighting major of the year was arguably his best performance for fans, but hardest to watch for coaches and management. The gritty winger exchanged blows with Ottawa's Zack Smith in a free-wheeling fight just outside the Boston bench. As Andy Brickley said, "It's hold your breath time" as the fight got started.
Neither player was willing to trade offense for defense as the two unloaded vicious right hands in the third-to-last game of the season.
