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This is as Canadian as anything in life can possibly get. Full stop. We’re talking more Canadian than moose or maple syrup. More Canadian than hockey itself because this takes hockey to the next level. We’ve got a father-son Saskatchewan senior hockey league fight.
During Saturday’s game between the Perdue Pirates and the Langham Vikings, the Vikings took an absolute beating in more ways than one. They lost the game 18-4 which would be an outrageous score line for a baseball game let alone a hockey game. But the Perdue Pirates named 27-year-old Tyler Ewen ‘Player of the Game’ after going toe-to-tie with his own father in an on-ice tilt.
So rare is it to see a father-son hockey fight that this tilt made it all the way to Sportsnet with all of the hockey world in awe at the blows this father-son duo were throwing. What we’re seeing here is either the latest in a long line of father-son hockey fights between these two fellas or we’re seeing a lifetime’s worth of pent up aggression being released because they are going at it:
“Season’s Beatings” from the Sask Prairie Hockey League! 🧑🎄👊🏼😂
The Father vs Son tilt has made its way onto @Sportsnet. #SeniorMens @PerdueSrPirates pic.twitter.com/4Y2ngNGzrj
— Monday Nooner (@MondayNooner) December 23, 2024
Here is another view of the father-son Saskatchewan hockey fight that’s going viral around the hockey world:
We have a Sasky Senior Father vs. Son scrap in the Sask Prairie… 😮
Chris Ewen (Langham Vikings..47 yr old) vs Tyler Dreiger (@PerdueSrPirates ..27 yr old)
Round 2 after Christmas Dinner?? 🤯 🧑🎄 👊🏼@SaskForum @SNKenReid @armdog pic.twitter.com/pAQxt6yjqs
— Monday Nooner (@MondayNooner) December 22, 2024
My dude, how are you going to beat the brakes off of your own father, beat his meager team by 14 goals, and then show up to your parent’s house for Christmas 4 days later? Is Christmas canceled this year in the Ewen household? Does Tyler now get to sit at the head of the table for the rest of his life? Will his father be required to give him the best piece of chicken henceforth until the end of time?
Fighting is intrinsic to the DNA of hockey but this is a father-son fight and even in Saskatchewan something like this fundamentally alters the fabric of a family’s structure. We the people need a follow-up after the holidays to see what Christmas was like.
As for the Pirates, they are on absolute fire in the Eastern Division of the Saskatchewan Prairie Hockey League. They won the game by an asinine 14-goal margin and are 7-1 on the season while the Vikings are 3-4-0 so far.
The Perdue Pirates face the Langham Vikings again on January 18th. Saskatchewan’s hockey world will wait with bated breath to see if this father-son due come to fisticuffs again. Only time will tell.