Fight Night in the KHL

The ninth season of the KHL hasn't even gotten out of the pre-season stages, and already, the wolves are out. If it's not head coaches fighting, as Yevgeni Popikhin of Neftekhimik and Peter Skudra of Torpedo did last Saturday, it's Damir Ryspayev sending a Kunlun Red Star player to the hospital and attempting to fight the entire team today. There is video of this, and rather than attempt to explain what went down, I'll let the video do the talking:

As you can see, it was clear that Ryspayev went hunting for Kunlun players, and given the history of Ryspayev, who amassed 111 PIM in just 16 games last season, and the history of Andrei Nazarov, head coach of Barys Astana who used to be an NHL enforcer and is well-known for being short-tempered dating back to his days as head coach of Vityaz, it makes you wonder if either should have a place in any hockey arena anywhere. It's also worth nothing that in their previous matchup, both teams combined for 196 PIM, so whether or not emotions truly boiled over for either or both teams, it's not making the KHL look any better right now.