{"id":413700,"date":"2026-01-18T03:35:25","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413700\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T03:35:25","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T03:35:25","slug":"rare-college-hockey-fight-involving-blackhawks-prospect-results-in-automatic-suspensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/413700\/","title":{"rendered":"Rare college hockey fight involving Blackhawks prospect results in automatic suspensions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"Sacha Boisvert is selected by the Chicago Blackhawks with the 18th overall pick during the first round of the 2024 Upper Deck NHL Draft at Sphere on June 28, 2024 in Las Vegas, Nevada.\" fetchpriority=\"high\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/GettyImages-2159745109-scaled-e1768704511983-1024x683.jpg\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"responsive\" class=\"image-next-root\" style=\"border-top-left-radius:0px;border-top-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-right-radius:0px;border-bottom-left-radius:0px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;bottom:0;right:0;box-sizing:border-box;padding:0;border:none;margin:auto;display:block;width:0;height:0;min-width:100%;max-width:100%;min-height:100%;max-height:100%;object-fit:cover\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"Article_ImageCaptionCredit__mkXi_ article-image-caption-credit Typography_body1__xfKuc inherit Typography_base__jzSqr\">Blackhawks prospect and Boston University sophomore forward Sacha Boisvert and UMass Lowell senior Connor Eddy went blow-for-blow in a rare college hockey fight on Friday night. Bruce Bennett \/ Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Chicago Blackhawks prospect Sacha Boisvert\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/5498582\/2024\/05\/24\/sacha-boisvert-2024-nhl-draft\/?source=emp_shared_article\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">boxing background is well known<\/a>, but it was always assumed he\u2019d have to wait until turning pro to provide a glimpse of his ability after he opted to take the college hockey route.<\/p>\n<p>The No. 18 pick in the 2024 NHL Draft, who attended North Dakota as a freshman and whose father owns a boxing gym in Quebec, had other ideas. Boisvert, a Boston University sophomore forward, and UMass Lowell senior Connor Eddy went blow-for-blow in a rare college hockey fight on Friday night. Two officials attempted to stop the fight early, but both players continued to swing away.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">We have a college hockey fight! Sacha Boisvert and Connor Eddy drop the gloves \ud83d\udc4a <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e74jnmwgRp\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/e74jnmwgRp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 EVERYTHING COLLEGE HOCKEY (@TeamECH) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TeamECH\/status\/2012357080577966365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 17, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Fighting is illegal in college hockey and results in a five-minute major penalty, an immediate ejection and an automatic suspension for another game. Neither player was in Saturday\u2019s game between the two teams.<\/p>\n<p>Boston University coach Jay Pandolfo wasn\u2019t sure Saturday whether Boisvert would be disciplined further by Hockey East.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not going to comment now, we\u2019re past it,\u201d Pandolfo said during Saturday\u2019s postgame news conference. \u201cWe\u2019re just moving forward now. We\u2019re just waiting to see what Hockey East says about it, but it\u2019s over, it\u2019s last night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Blackhawks prospect and Boston University sophomore forward Sacha Boisvert and UMass Lowell senior Connor Eddy went blow-for-blow in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5115],"tags":[521,37,96,5263,1879,5,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-413700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago-blackhawks","8":"tag-blackhawks","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-chicago-blackhawks","11":"tag-chicagoblackhawks","12":"tag-college-sports","13":"tag-hockey","14":"tag-nhl"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/115914010322186060","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=413700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}