Dominik Shine made a mistake in the closing minutes of Friday's hockey game. Cleveland's Joe Pendenza made a bigger one challenging the Grand Rapids Griffins' forward.

Shine inadvertently ran into Monsters goalie Ivan Kulbakov as he cut in front of the net, prompting Pendenza to came to the aid of his goalie after the interference and push Shine.

Bad idea.

The 5-foot-11 Pendenza shoved Shine a couple of times until they reached the far boards. Then Shine let loose with three punches - and that ended that pretty fast much to the delight of the Van Andel Arena crowd.

Pendenza took the worst of it penalty-wise, too. He received a minor and his first game misconduct of the season for instigating a fight in final five minutes of third period or overtime.

The 5-11 Shine, a Northern Michigan University product from Pinckney in his first full season with the Griffins, picked up a minor for goaltender interference, five minutes for fighting and an impressive fight video. He was also suspended by the AHL for Saturday's rematch between the teams.

The Griffins won 5-2.