Watch as Ryan Reaves gets a couple of hits on Jesse Ylönen and Kaiden Guhle before Arber Xhekaj steps in and drops the gloves for the first fight of the Canadiens’ and Maple Leafs’ seasons.
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47 Comments
Looks like Arber Xhekaj will be in the '23-24 season opening night lineup. Good move, Habs.
Without a doubt Xhekaj is a force to be reckoned with so if you try to rough up a Hab , you will have Wifi to deal with. He also moves the puck pretty damn well.
Guhle turned his back on reaves who was coming into finish his check and I don’t blame wifi for jumping reaves over it either.. gonna be fun watching them guys go round 2.. I love it and leafs need a guy like reaves, hits fights hard on forecheck and players won’t take liberties on our players without consequences like they have in the past worth every penny honestly
Lmao its actually funny how biased mtl fans are. He pushed reaves down because he knows he cant beat him in a fight. Not a single punch thrown 😂
Not much of a bout but hats off to WIFI
Reaves was already down when Xhekaj goes after him.
Love this guy
Reaves is telling the opposition to come on in warmups yet it’s wifi that gets the instigator?
Bro really deposited him into the net 💀
I love it at the end Reaves hand gestures for the crowd to applause, for what, getting beast handled and thrown through the back of the net? 😂
Xhekaj, also the hockey player is incredible in all aspect of the game.
To bad he had to jump Reaves instead of facing off,
Wow. This was disappointing. Everyone hyped this fight up like there was a knockout and Reaves got destroyed. This was a shoving match, no punches looked like they even landed and it was a terrible fight. People in the comments remind me of the Bruins announcer lol.
Reaves losing his touch
Kinda weak to shove a guy into the net instead of stand and deliver
Wifi push fighting is cute 😅😅😅
Reaves flexing lmaoooooo 😭
That was anti-climactic. Still, looking forward to seeing more of Xhekaj, even as an Oilers fan (bag on head currently).
I WANT BABY BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111
Hamilton proud.
I am glad Xhekaj does not look like Jeff Petry… That's embarrassed everybody when he did not do anything against Kassian when he mauled Montembeault
Treliving: 🫤
Looked like Xhekaj was so pumped he almost threw a flying knee!!! LOL, but he held back just in time!! Love this guy, he's the Habs new Odelein!!! Good defenseman and can scrap! Gotta love that combo. He has that sneaky wrister too, that rips thru nets!!
Reaves put 2 fists into Wifi's head as soon as he looked at him lol – that's when Wifi decides to make it a wrestling match – smart move kid… but kneeing is for losers.
RR was past his prime Lowry from Wpg has handled him twice was a few inches away from sending him into retirement the last fight they had
Reeves looks like he gonna light his ass up next game they play each other 😈😂
Looking forward to seeing them actually fight, and not just wrestle while one guy is off balance from the start. It looked to me like Xhekaj was doing whatever he could to avoid actual fistacuffs. Good for him for stepping up…just think he's getting WAY too much credit for what it actually was.
Dont see reaves get pushed around very often. Round 2 should be good!
Get rekt habs
Reaves got absolutely GOONED
The Sheriff!
The Leafs are bitches
Reaves is a goof
My man 💪🏻
Guaranteed Reaves will want to go again next game without the net getting in the way.
I felt like Reeves was kind of dragged around there. How big is Arber?
Hilarious he lost his first fight in that cursed sweater. 😂
Kind of a blind side cheap hit by Reaves….Then he kind of lost that fight getting punched, kneed and slammed to the ice via the goal.
He is the new sheriff in town!
Bigmouth got punked ,,annihilation and humiliation that was soooo enjoyable to watch albeit to short a bout Leafs a joke 4ever
Games getting faster even the fights everything is more intense now. Reaves was taken by surprise I think if these two meet again we will get a better tilly
Wifi just gets top heavy everytime and whips people down to the ice. Not many solid punches
Wifi is a beauty and I hate the Habs!
ATTA BOY, ARBER
only way to do anything was to knock him over the net LOL
LOL Reaves loses basically every fight now it's hilarious.
Maan leafs fans are pretty salty about this, punch or no punch Reaves did get pushed on his ass… home ice 😬