Things got heated between the Arizona Coyotes and Edmonton Oilers on Wednesday night.

Late in what was eventually a 3-2 Oilers win, their first against Arizona in years, Oliver Ekman-Larsson hit Matt Hendricks hard into the boards as the two chased down a puck deep in the Coyotes' zone.

Earlier in the game, Hendricks sent Coyotes defenseman Jakob Chychrun to the dressing room with a hit, so you could say he had a target on his back.

After Hendricks hit the ice, Zack Kassian came in and delivered a brutal cross-check to Ekman-Larsson's back, sending the Swede to the ice. Kassian knew he'd have to answer for his stick work, and immediately dropped the gloves.

Anthony Duclair, hardly a fighter, came to his defender's aid, and Kassian knocked him twice in the face. Finally, an irate Shane Doan went after Kassian, eventually taking the big Oilers forward down to the ice.

Meanwhile, Martin Hanzal and Mark Letestu fought.

"Two teams that are competing pretty hard," Letestu said after the game. "Sometimes things boil over."

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