Tkachuk's side of the story was that he was just giving the guy a shove to get him off the ice and that Witkowski was looking for any excuse to come back onto it. He's right. If Tkachuk doesn't "spear" him, then this guy finds an excuse elsewhere. Maybe he waits for someone to yell at him from the Flames bench and back he comes.
Still, if you're Tkachuk and you now know (if you didn't before) that the league is just waiting for you to slip on that banana peel maybe you let someone else give the next guy a shove off off the ice and save all your own friendly pushes for in front of the net.
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