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Originally Posted by EldrickOnIce
The optics are so simple.
A call should have been made on the play.
The Flames basically scored twice while Tkachuk should have been in the box and put the game away.
The player has dodged discipline a few times this year, where something could have happened.
Therefore the NHL has to do something this time.
What that is, no one knows.
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Tkachuck was in the box, as was Pearson. Both deserved penalties for their initial hits, but got penalties for the subsequent scrum. So nothing would have changed in that regard. It would have been 4 on 4 either way.