Pittsburgh Penguins winger Steve Downie was reportedly traded by the Colorado Avalanche as a direct result of an incident last fall during an Avalanche practice in which he and Gabriel Landeskog got into a heated disagreement and ultimately exchanged blows.
Though Downie has downplayed the incident since, it would appear that some bad blood still exists between the two forwards:
Downie was assessed a two-minute minor penalty for elbowing on the play.