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Originally Posted by SuperMatt18
I love that the part of the media that is calling Tkachuk a "Chicken" is completely overlooking the fact that Tkachuk is the one that went looking for it.
This isn't Tkachuk running around targeting Yamamoto, RHH, or McDavid and then turtling when he has to answer for it.
He went out and decided to deck Kassian twice.
Then when Kassian tried to kill him, what did he do when Kassian came out of the box, he crushed him again with a clean hit.
I don't know but I don't think that's "chicken" at all. IMO that takes more balls then being 6'3" and trying to punch a guy who's not even trying to fight back.
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Yah it's actually hilarious. He targeted their biggest guy (cleanly), hoping to get the reaction he got. He literally signed up for a plan that would result in Kassian throwing punches on him to which he wouldn't respond.
Fighting back actually requires less guts both physically and emotionally from Tkachuk because it would hurt less than what happened to him, and he wouldn't have to be dealing with the comments that he turtled. He did the least "chicken" thing he could do, he took a punch of punches and didn't defend himself to get the team a PP.
Oilers nation needs to stop pretending that this is a case where Kassian attempted to square off against Tkachuk and he declined (not that he should have to oblige in that scenario either because again, he's literally done nothing to the Oilers but lay some legal checks on their toughest player). Kassian just jumped him like a mad man, which is exactly what Tkachuk was hoping would happen.