Canucks just proved to all teams with this game, the Kings game, and the Ducks game, that if you bait them into playing a tough physical game they'll struggle... and then they'll blame everyone else for their short commings when it doesn't work out in their favor.
I just like how Calgary just started their lineup, it is what it is... and Vancouver is turning it into a poor me, melodrama, blaming everyone else, calling them names, claiming they had no choice and they were backed into a corner.
And with Westgarth, it was more self preservation... Bieksa waved the kid out taking the faceoff. Bieksa is cheap so he probably thought he'd throw a punch or 2, Westgarth got the jump on him and when Bieksa wasn't fighting Westgarth let him go. It was nothing like Sestito on Nolan, or Thornton and Orpik. Or Ference and Stempniak.
And then Lain went to Westgarth after. Westgarth didn't chase him down.
Mcgratten and Sestito was going to happen... I think the other fights were more Vancouver trying to prove they're tougher and Calgary pushed back harder.
My opinion on it anyways
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