Ice hockey players get into a brawl just two seconds into start of the new season

Michael Ferland and Derek Dorsett didn't take long to get their gloves off

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The National Hockey League can be a thrilling, exciting show of speed and skill.

It can also resemble a street fight.

The latter was certainly on show on opening night of the new NHL season, with Canadian rivals the Calgary Flames and Vancouver Canucks continuing their long rivalry.

But it doesn't normally happen so quickly.

Just two seconds into the first game of the season, Michael Ferland of the Flames and Vancouver's Derek Dorsett dropped their sticks and gloves and got into a brawl.

Ferland won the fight but the Canucks came out on top with a 5-1 victory.

"I knew something was going to happen," Ferland told the Calgary Sun.

"I thought it would (get the crowd into it). Obviously, we knew they’d come in hungry, but I don’t think we matched their intensity. It’s tough to lose that way."