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Daniel Amesbury gave Sylvain Cloutier exactly what Adirondack's bench feeds on: edge, noise, and a fight nobody in that rink was ignoring.
He didn't get a clean, easy finish out of it. That's what made the sequence stick.
Amesbury dropped Trois-Rivières Lions defenseman Landon Fuller 3 times in the same ECHL fight, and Fuller kept getting back to his skates. That changed the whole feel of the clip.
Amesbury's part was obvious. He landed the heavier shots, kept driving forward, and forced Fuller to reset again and again.
But Fuller earned his share of respect too. Getting planted 3 separate times and still answering takes a different kind of nerve.
The exchange never looked staged or soft. It was messy, off-balance, and full of short punches, the kind of scrap where both players are working through pure fatigue by the end.
The eye test is what sells it. Amesbury snaps Fuller backward with one right, Fuller drops, gets up, eats another wave, and still comes back into range.
Daniel Amesbury dropped his rival 3 times and still left fans debating the result
That's why this wasn't just another tough-guy clip. Amesbury delivered the force, but Fuller gave the fight its staying power because he refused to stay down.
Amesbury has long carried that reputation. He's listed at 6-foot-0 and 222 pounds on Adirondack's roster, and his whole game has always leaned into confrontation, bench energy, and pushback.
Fuller brings a very different frame at 6-foot-5 and 234 pounds for Trois-Rivières, which made the repeated knockdowns stand out even more. Amesbury wasn't moving a light opponent around out there.
For Cloutier's Thunder, a moment like that fits the identity. Adirondack's coach was hired in July 2025, and this team hasn't looked shy about leaning into emotion and friction since.
Still, the respect angle belongs on both sides. Amesbury owned the hardest moments of the fight, but Fuller's refusal to fold is the reason people are still talking about it.
So no, Fuller didn't win the fight. But getting dropped 3 times by Daniel Amesbury and still climbing back in earns real respect every time
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