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Originally Posted by Fire
My guess is that Tkachuk gets two games since he made contact with a player off the ice. On the ice it would have been a 2 minute penalty.
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I could see that too if the NHL is intent on throwing the book at him. However, by that standard, shouldn't they then have to do something about Mantha? It may have started on the ice, but it didn't stop once they were off the ice, and he didn't stop once the linesman was trying to break it up.
Yeah, I can see how they look at Tkachuk as the spark causing that explosion, but IMO, Witkowski was already a 5 alarm blaze going nuts.
It was Mantha and Witkowski that I think did things out of line, putting other players in danger and embarrassing the NHL. I guess goading someone into doing something stupid is worse than getting on top of a prone player and feed him punches until you get tired.
(sorry, not arguing with you... just a bit bitter that Mantha didn't receive a thing).