Justin Bieber dropped the gloves with an NHL Hall of Famer at a charity hockey game benefiting victims of the California wildfires.
Bieber, 30, tussled with Jeremy Roenick during the Skate For LA Strong game at Los Angeles’ Crypto.com Arena on Sunday, February 23. The Canadian pop star playfully pulled the jersey over the head of the 55-year-old Roenick — who played 20 seasons for five different NHL teams before retiring in 2009 — during the second period of the game, which served as a fundraising effort to benefit the LA Fire Relief Fund.
The fight drew an enthusiastic reaction from the crowd and Bieber’s opposing Team Red coach, Vince Vaughn. “This is starting to get chippy out here!” said Vaughn, 54, as Bieber made his way back to the bench.
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Bieber’s Team Black was coached by Will Ferrell and Snoop Dogg, and the fight earned the praise of the legendary rapper. “We didn’t win the game, but we won the fight,” Snoop, 53, said on the bench. “That’s what I’m talking about.”
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Team Red, which was coached by Vaughn, 54, and actress Cobie Smulders — who lost the home she shared with her husband, Taran Killam, in the Pacific Palisades fire — defeated Team Black 4-0.
“I can say I got beat up by Justin Bieber,” Roenick told The Athletic after the game. “That’s a great day.”
During an in-game interview, Bieber was asked by reporter Jackie Redmond what it meant to lace up the skates for the charity event.
“This is everything,” Bieber said. “We’re just looking to have a good time and show that when we come together, good things can happen.”
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Bieber was also asked by Redmond when he wants to get his son Jack, who was born in August 2024, on hockey skates.
“As soon as possible,” he said enthusiastically. “It’s never too early.”
The Skate For LA Strong featured star-studded lineups, including celebrities like Steve Carell, Taylor Kitsch, Kevin Zegers, Skylar Astin, Ross Lynch and David Boreanaz taking the ice with an impressive list of NHL alumni including Jarret Stoll, Nate Thompson, Dany Heatley and Dion Phaneuf.
“I know a lot of people that have lost their homes,” Bones alum Boreanaz, 55, told The Athletic. “In speaking with them, it doesn’t stop. The grief doesn’t stop, and it stays with them. And this is an opportunity to shed some grief for them, give some healing for them.”
