Kevin Bieksa had enough of Michael Ferland on Sunday night. (USATSI)
Kevin Bieksa had enough of Michael Ferland on Sunday night. (USATSI)

Calgary Flames forward Michael Ferland has been a thorn in the side of the Canucks over the first three games of their Western Conference playoff series.

Not because he is scoring goals or producing offense, but mostly because he simply will not stop hitting them. Hard. And repeatedly. 

He was credited with eight hits in only 12 minutes of ice time during the Flames' 4-2 win on Sunday night, and by the end of the game Canucks defenseman Kevin Bieksa finally had enough and decided he was going to just start force feeding Ferland as many punches as he could before somebody stepped in and put a stop to it.  

Both players ended up receiving five-minute majors for fighting. Bieksa for actually trying to fight, and Ferland for ... getting punched.

All of this came after Game 2 ended with a line brawl that earned Flames coach Bob Hartley a $50,000 fine from the NHL. Even though Game 3 didn't end with anything quite that bad, the two teams still were not on their best behavior.

Along with Bieksa losing it on Ferland, Canucks forward Alex Burrows was ejected late in the game for earning an instigator penalty in the final five minutes for his role in this fight with Flames defenseman with Kris Russell.

Just before that, Dan Hamhuis received a two-minute minor for an illegal check to the head of Flames rookie forward Sam Bennett.