{"id":546477,"date":"2026-04-08T00:51:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:51:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546477\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T00:51:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T00:51:16","slug":"rangers-noah-laba-tells-the-post-what-he-learned-from-his-first-nhl-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/546477\/","title":{"rendered":"Rangers&#8217; Noah Laba tells The Post what he learned from his first NHL fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When Noah Laba dropped the gloves with the Capitals\u2019 Hendrix Lapierre <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/05\/sports\/rangers-find-winning-ways-when-it-matters-least-in-dominant-victory-over-capitals\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">late in the third period Sunday<\/a>, it was an unfamiliar setting for the Rangers rookie center.<\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d be in a fight before, but a \u201clong, long time ago, though,\u201d he said Tuesday. It dated back to a preseason USHL game in 2020, when Laba was still with the Lincoln Stars and nearly two years away from getting drafted by the Blueshirts, according to HockeyFights. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019d consulted Matt Rempe a little bit on fighting earlier in the season, but just was mostly just messing around, Laba said. The bout \u2014 which lasted around 20 seconds, where Laba landed a couple right-handed jabs while otherwise holding on for dear life \u2014 against Lapierre showcased his inexperience, too.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDefinitely a lot to learn from and a lot to kinda take in,\u201d Laba told The Post. \u201cBut it\u2019s definitely nice to kinda get that first one out of the way, and, like, kinda understand what that feeling\u2019s like \u2014 maybe next time actually throw a couple more punches.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Noah Laba dropped the gloves with the Capitals\u2019 Hendrix Lapierre late in the third period Sunday, it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":546478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5111],"tags":[5,2385,3328,35,5190,5193,4,36,43,336,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-546477","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-rangers","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-hockey-fights","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-rangers","12":"tag-newyork","13":"tag-newyorkrangers","14":"tag-nhl","15":"tag-rangers","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-sports-plus","18":"tag-washington-capitals"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116366349680453541","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546477","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=546477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/546477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/546478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=546477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=546477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=546477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}