The New York Rangers and the New Jersey Devils played at Madison Square Garden. Two seconds into the game, two players started fighting for a pending score.

Rangers forward Matt Rempe was facing Kurtis MacDermid, from New Jersey. Both players were ejected, along with the Rangers' Barclay Woodrow, Jacob Trouba and K'Andre Miller, and the Devils' Kevin Bahl, Chris Tierney and John Marino. The ten players also received five-minute penalties for fighting.