Haha, Doughty is gonna be one surly bastard tonight. This should be a fun game.
Here's the article where the comments appeared, with a few more quotes.
http://www.tsn.ca/tkachuk-on-doughty...m-him-1.709271
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The 19-year-old rookie insisted the comments by Doughty didn’t bother him, though.
“It has no effect on me what (Doughty) says or anybody on their team says,” Tkachuk added to the Sun. “If it was a pretty dirty play… I mean, nobody really did anything about it and nobody on our end really thought it was that bad. But that’s in the past. Tomorrow, it’s just another game and hopefully another game closer to playoffs.”
Flames head coach Glen Gulutzan noted Tuesday that Tkachuk will likely be a marked man by the Kings, who are fighting to stave off elimination from the playoff race.
“We’ll talk to him. We know that there will be a little of a bull's-eye probably on Matty,” Gulutzan said, per the Sun. “And not in a malicious way. Just that, hey, they probably won’t like what happened and they’re going to play him a little extra hard and he’s going to have to be prepared for that. But we’ll be prepared too. We won’t let anything get out of hand.
“They’re going to remember, like any big hit or anything. It’ll be a tougher trench match for Matty than probably other games, but that’s what happens. That’s part of it.”
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