<p>CINEMA.</p>



<p>That is the word to describe Dylan McIlrath vs Jeffrey Viel’s scrap on Tuesday night as the two slugged it out in front of fans at TD Place in Boston.</p>



<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Dylan McIlrath vs Jeffrey Viel from the Washington Capitals at Boston Bruins game on Apr 1, 2025 <a href="https://t.co/0BqpR3lywQ">https://t.co/0BqpR3lywQ</a></p>— hockeyfights (@hockeyfights) <a href="https://twitter.com/hockeyfights/status/1907240956145111314?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">April 2, 2025</a></blockquote> <script async="" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>



<p>Today on Daily Faceoff Live, Frank Seravalli and Colby Cohen discuss the fight and what it meant to hockey.</p>



<p><strong>Frank Seravalli:</strong> Colby, give me one word to describe this tilt between Washington’s Dylan McIlrath and Boston’s Jeffrey Viel?</p>



<p><strong>Colby Cohen:</strong> Violent would be the word that comes to mind, Frank, and I will just add a little asterisk to this. I got tangled up with Dylan McIlrath in a game. I think he played in Hartford back in the day, and I think I ended up on the wrong side of a couple of those rights and lefts from our pal Dylan McElrath, so I know how that feels.</p><div class="injected-ad injected-video" data-nn-ad-tech-injection-count="0" data-nn-ad-tech-max-gap="130" data-nn-ad-tech-current-gap="158"></div>



<p><strong>Frank Seravalli: </strong>&nbsp;All right, my one word is exhausting, and it might just be because I’m so out of shape, but watching how long this went on, I was tired of them just watching this, it’s insane. I just think this is one of the longest fights we’ve seen. Well, there just wasn’t a lot of tie-up and protection. You don’t see anybody pulling their head out, you don’t see the double jersey grab. These guys are just old-fashioned, throwing rights, eating punches, not sure I recommend it, but it was violent. It was a great scrap, give both a lot of credit for standing in there. I’m sure they both have nothing but respect for one another for hanging in on a fight like that. Yeah, nothing but respect for both those guys, McIlrath just signing a two-year extension to remain with the Caps, a sort of no maintenance, seventh defenseman and who’s kidding who? Jeffrey Viel is fighting for an NHL roster spot; his messages about how to pump up the Boston Bruins and to send a message to the rest of the group that I wanna be here next year and I wanna be on this team, full marks to them.</p><div class="injected-ad" data-nn-ad-tech-injection-count="1" data-nn-ad-tech-max-gap="130" data-nn-ad-tech-current-gap="204"></div>



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