Pair of Penguins Needed to Be Separated at Practice after Heated Exchange

Practices at the professional level - in all sports - are high intensity stencils of real-game situations. The old adage of you play like you practice rings true. Sometimes, though, practices escalate to the point where players need to be separated at risk of a full-blown fight.

It's happened before and it will happen again.

During Thursday's Pittsburgh Penguins practice, goaltender Casey DeSmith and center Teddy Blueger got after it, according to Taylor Haase of DK Pittsburgh Sports, and had to be separated by their teammates. Apparently, DeSmith robbed Blueger and taunted him, which started the encounter.

When asked about it afterwards, Blueger said the two were 'just messing,' but by the sound of it the situation wasn't so vanilla. Normally, when two guys are just messing around they don't need to be separated by teammates.

That said, there is no need to suspect that any feathers were permanently ruffled from this kerfuffle. Pittsburgh's locker room is notably tight-knit, but sometimes even brothers go at it.

It happens.

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