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Originally Posted by GioforPM
Plus, I never saw how Tkachuk was supposed to fight Kassian in the moment at that game. He hit him, started to follow the play up ice, and got grabbed from behind, with no chance to do anything other than cover up. There was never a chance to square up. And he went on to hit Kassian again and Kassian made zero move to fight him.
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The whole thing came from the Oilers and Kassian and Staples and was picked up by the sportsnet guys who sensed a story that would sell hits that Tkachuk was a back biting coward.
I remember that somehow Kassian because the poster boy for a gun fighter that respected the un written code of the game. None of that was true. Kassian is literally gutless, you look at his hits, grabbing players from behind to pummel them and going after players that are not in his weight class.
I still remember after Kassian fought Tkachuk and Kassian skated by the Flames bench and I think Rinaldo basically said "I'm next" and Kassian started examining his skate laces.
I don't give a good god damn about what Staples said except its always hilarious and delusional and wrong. But at the same time Maurice's comments after the game while games man ship was pretty reprehensible and dishonest and what made it worse was that the talking heads out there picked it up, ignored what Tre said and continued to push that Tkachuk was a Cooke class player.
It was pretty despicable.