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Originally Posted by stang
I thought that was awesome. You could tell Tkachak wanted to do it, wether is was to show his teammates, or didn’t like being called a turtle or just sick of all the media or whatever his reason was. Probably a little nervous and fired up for it as any human would be. Wants to go out and get it out of the way, so he can get back to playing his game. By not engaging him right away, it’s still on his mind. And he’s still thinking about it. Control thing. You fight when I’m ready.
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Yeah, Tkachuk looked totally cowed, and intimidated as he went hard to the front of the net, and had a big factor in that opening goal, and probably skated slowly by the Oilers bench with a poop eating grin on his face.
Yeah, and that Kassian glare, ohhh, Tkachuk didn't seem the least bit intimidated or frightened by it, he out strategized Kassian on the fight front, got in close, took a couple of punches and it was over and then did an great setup on Andrew's goal.
What was even better was that after the fight, Kassian basically completely vanished probably because of the game within a game that a guy who actually fights at a NHL level said, I'm next.
This was a very good game by Tkachuk from start to finish, he didn't look overly concerned by Kassian's WWE style rants leading up to it, nor did he look all that frightened when he lined up and they agreed to fight.