Bumstead watched Johnson fall to the ice. After serving his five-minute penalty, Bumstead returned to play. Johnson, dazed, was unable to. Fine, we'll beat on you all night. The IceRays went on to win, 3-1.
Fighting is elemental to hockey, a game of speed and contact, played in a walled-in surface on ice.
Everybody carries a stick. Not only a natural, human response, fighting in hockey is necessary, purposeful. There is more to it than many think. Etiquette is involved and almost always a strategy. There's a certain logic to its existence.