A couple of things I've heard in the media here in BC that bother me:
1) Torts was protecting his players by putting goons out.
No he wasn't. Show me once where a goon went after and hurt a star player. Show me once where McGrattan or Westgarth went after a star. You can't. People keep throwing out the John Scott/Kessel incident. How hurt food Kessel get? Torts sent out the goons because he's arrogant and has to be aggressive.
2) Hartley set up the line for a line brawl.
No he wasn't. Not with Blair Jones or Chris Butler on the ice. He was most certainly setting up for a fight, but why not just one??
3) If Bob Hartley had just have manned up and responded to Torts tirade this all could've been avoided.
Bullspit. If he'd have riled Torts up more they would be talking about how if he just would have ignored Fonzy everything would've been ok
The amount of rationalization is absurd
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