Oilers’ Podkolzin given only fighting major in scrap against Ducks

Remember when you were a kid, and you’d get into a fight with a sibling, but you were the one who got the harsher punishment? Well, something like that happened in an NHL game. In the first period of a matchup between the Edmonton Oilers and Anaheim Ducks, Oilers forward Vasily Podkolzin dropped the gloves with Ducks defenseman Drew Helleson, but only one of them was handed a penalty for fighting. A little before the halfway mark of the frame, Edmonton captain Connor McDavid was driven into the Ducks’ net by Helleson, which drew the ire of the capacity crowd...