Edmonton Oilers fans get into wild brawls at Game 5 watch party

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After watching their team win Game 5 of its playoff series to come within reach of advancing to the next round of the NHL playoffs, you would think that Edmonton Oilers fans would be in good spirits.

Instead, fights broke out between the team’s own fans at a watch party on Tuesday night, including a wild brawl that saw one fan attacked by a group of men outside Rogers Place in Edmonton.

In one video posted by X user YEGWAVE, a group of fans wearing black shirts and hoodies appear to attack a man wearing a white jacket.

The group of at least four men throw and connect with several punches and kicks as the person with the white jacket tries to retreat into a bigger nearby crowd.

At the end of the clip, a kick to the back of his leg sends the person in the jacket falling backwards to the ground.

There was no indication what sparked the wild scene.

It wasn’t the only act of violence that took place outside the arena that night.

In a second clip posted on social media early Wednesday morning, two Oilers fans dropped the proverbial gloves after a verbal confrontation became heated.

As the fans argued, one man wearing an Oilers poncho shoved another fan wearing a blue Mattias Ekholm Oilers jersey, with telling the other to “f***ing hit me.”

The two combatants grabbed each other by the collar as beer was spilled and fists started flying.

While the fan in the Ekholm jersey landed several punches to his foe’s face, it was the fan in the poncho that landed the final blow, sending the other fan to the ground.

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That was when bystanders stepped in to pull the fan in the poncho off the fallen rival, who laid on the ground with his hands on his face as the clip ended.

“I saw them getting mad at each other before I started recording,” X user luv4desharnais wrote. “But man oilers fans fighting each other is crazy.”

The post-game scenes should have been cause for celebration for Oilers fans.

Mattias Janmark scored the tiebreaking goal in the third period of Game 5 on Tuesday in Los Angeles as the Oilers went on to beat the Kings 3-1.

Evander Kane and Ryan Nugent-Hopkins also scored while Calvin Pickard, the backup goalie making his third straight start, made 20 saves

The Oilers, who have bounced back from a 0-2 hole to win the next three games, will try to wrap up the series against the Kings at home on Thursday night.