Watch: Buffalo captain Tage Thompson sparks all-out 5v5 Sabres-Red Wings brawl amid 7-3 shellacking by Detroit

The Detroit Red Wings and Buffalo Sabres ended their game on Wednesday night with an explosive 5-on-5 brawl. The fight broke out during Detroit's dominating 7-3 victory over their Atlantic Division rival.

The incident started after Red Wings defenseman Simon Edvinsson checked Sabres forward Josh Norris into the boards in the Red Wings zone. Norris took exception to the hard hit and shoved Edvinsson in retaliation.

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Sabres captain Tage Thompson jumped in to defend his teammate, throwing off his gloves and wrestling Edvinsson to the ice as players from both teams joined the skirmish.

After the officials broke up the initial fight, Red Wings forward Dominik Shine and Sabres defenseman Bowen Byram immediately dropped their gloves for round two. The officials had to intervene again to prevent further fighting.

In total, six players were given misconduct penalties for their roles in the brawl: Zach Benson, Shine, Norris, Byram, Thompson and Mattias Samuelsson. Edvinsson, meanwhile, received a roughing penalty.

In the game itself, Detroit got two goals each from Patrick Kane and Marco Kasper, and single tallies from Alex DeBrincat, Moritz Seider and Vladimir Tarasenko in the rout. Zach Benson, Thompson and Norris scored for the Sabres.

Detroit goaltender Petr Mrazek made 23 saves on the night while Buffalo's Ukko-Pekka Luukkonen allowed seven goals on 29 shots.

Game Recap: Red Wings win 7-3 over Sabres

Tage Thompson opened the scoring for Buffalo at 7:38, firing a wrist shot past Mrazek’s blocker off a feed from Bowen Byram for his 34th goal.

Detroit responded at 12:36 when Marco Kasper tipped in Simon Edvinsson’s shot to tie it up. But, Alex DeBrincat made it 2-1 a few minutes later. Patrick Kane made it 3-1 with a power-play goal at 19:07, beating Luukkonen from the left circle. Josh Norris answered back for Buffalso with a goal just 18 seconds later. Vladimir Tarasenko scored his ninth goal of the season at 10:54 of the second period.

Buffalo pulled within one again when Zach Benson buried a rebound on the power play at 18:12 to make it 4-3. Kane struck again early in the third, scoring his second power-play goal at 1:36. Kasper then made it 6-3 at 5:39 with his second goal of the night. Moritz Seider sealed the game with a power-play goal at 14:31, for a 7-3 victory for Detroit.