When the Vancouver Canucks took to the ice for their final home game of 2025-26, there wasn’t a whole lot for the players to fight for. They had last place in the league wrapped up, 14 points back of 31st-place Chicago, and a summer of change lay ahead.

But after pulling out their first back-to-back victories since December in San Jose and Anaheim, the Canucks stayed in the win column with a 4-3 overtime victory over the playoff-bound Los Angeles Kings.

For Filip Hronek, the fight was literal on that Tuesday night. After Kings right winger Mathieu Joseph pasted prized youngster Zeev Buium into the boards in the third period, Hronek was quick to chase down the culprit and drop the gloves, earning his first five-minute major since 2020.

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