I'm not sure what I want the NHL to do here, but my entire life of watching this sport tells me that even if you're not throwing dirty hits, if you're running around the ice taking big shots at the other team's players, you should know you're going to have to drop the gloves at some point. That's just how it's always been, and I honestly still want it to be that way. I can't stand Brad Marchand, for example, and the fact that he can get away with his antics without any retribution or penalty is galling. It's pretty hard to blame people for feeling that way about Tkachuk sometimes (or his brother for that matter).
That being said, Kassian is a clown. Literally, he's funny. Just his facial expressions are funny. The fact that he takes himself so seriously is even funnier. If Tkachuk was going to troll anyone that's the perfect target.
__________________
"The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
|