{"id":504166,"date":"2026-03-15T05:07:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/504166\/"},"modified":"2026-03-15T05:07:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-15T05:07:14","slug":"jarvis-records-first-nhl-fight-vs-lightnings-girgensons-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/504166\/","title":{"rendered":"Jarvis Records First NHL Fight vs. Lightning\u2019s Girgensons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Going into Saturday\u2019s game, it was expected that the Carolina Hurricanes <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/nhl\/carolina-hurricanes\/hurricanes-game-66-lines-notes-goalies-and-how-to-watch-vs-lightning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">might have a gritty match<\/a> against the Tampa Bay Lightning, who lead the league in penalty minutes. However, what may not have been on many folks\u2019 bingo cards was Seth Jarvis recording his first career NHL fight.<\/p>\n<p>It came on the same night that his mother, Tracey Jarvis, read off the starting lineup in the dressing room for the Hurricanes\u2019 biennial mothers\u2019 trip.<\/p>\n<p>Before the gloves hit the cold, hard ice, Sebastian Aho landed on it first after a check from Zemgus Girgensons on the bench-side of the ice in the neutral zone. While the hit was clean, it was not one the Hurricanes liked \u2013 especially his linemate Jarvis. Without any delay, Jarvis got a hold of Girgensons and shook off the gloves. The fight only lasted eight seconds, and his opponent had the upper hand \u2013 with nine fights in his own NHL career \u2013 but the fire to do it spoke volumes for the Hurricanes\u2019 right wing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt wasn\u2019t a bad hit,\u201d Jarvis <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/rbarkleyhockey\/status\/2032971216944824830?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a> during the first intermission interview. \u201cBut thought it was something I didn\u2019t love.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhenever I see one of my teammates \u2013 one of my family \u2013 get kinda taken advantage of. I thought no better time than with my mom in the stands to try and fight\u2026It\u2019s definitely not something I\u2019m used to, but something I\u2019m willing to do for my teammates.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>WATCH: Seth Jarvis Defends Sebastian Aho, Drops the Gloves with Zemgus Girgensons<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773551234_319_ab783896b73f675bc93cb7c5b0a070ee9f363e9b6b751c7e80dcfd1fd7431eb5.png\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tRachel  Barkley  is  a  beat  writer  covering  the  Carolina  Hurricanes  for  Carolina  Hockey  Now  on  Sportsnaut.  Painting  stories  with  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/rbarkley\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rachel Barkley<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Going into Saturday\u2019s game, it was expected that the Carolina Hurricanes might have a gritty match against the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503883,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[377],"tags":[29,5,30341,1174],"class_list":["post-504166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hockey","tag-carolina-hurricanes","tag-hockey","tag-nhl-fights","tag-sebastian-aho"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116231462631156082","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504166","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=504166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}