After watching it again, Witkowski is just a meat head who went crazy. I don't like the pounding on the ice of a defenseless Kulak, and then the challenging another guy right after is total bush league. But he's a meathead fringe player that is about to be suspended for 10. Witkowski was thrown off and the Flames were pissed, but they probably should have left well enough alone. Tkachuk's "spear" was not a spear, and the whole team was clearly pissed at the guy, but not a great idea to escalate.
However Mantha, a really good young player throwing rights into the face of Hamonic who is defenseless at the open door to the tunnel is deplorable. He will probably go unscathed, but there isn't much in the rule book for that, so he will likely get a hand slap at most. That pisses me off. You could even see the Detroit player grabbing at Mantha trying to get him off Hamonic.
It also wouldn't surprise me if Tkachuk, who's reputation precedes him get a decent hit of discipline, he didn't really do much but his reputation combined with being in the middle of the altercation will probably render him guilty of being the gasoline that stoked the fire. Or something stupid like that.
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