Back before HD camera’s capturing the game from every angle I’d say this was a greasy play that would have been dealt with on the ice by the players themselves. Fortunately for Tkachuk the league is much softer in vigilante justice and will be penalized in lost revenue (missing games from suspension). He’s a rat, and in earlier days that probably would have made himself out to be a target that officials would turn a blind eye to. This incident is cheeky, but he’s lucky he’s safe from physical retribution in this politically correct era.
This kind of thing also polarizes the bench because you want to stick up for teammates, but not so much a ###### bag that has dug his own grave.
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