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Originally Posted by AC
Really? I recall the talk of Bieksa being the peacemaker was talked about as soon as it happened.
But Bieksa's actions always seemed so dumb to me as he didn't actually help the rookie out.
He didn't want Westgarth to fight the rookie, Kellan Lain, so he stepped up to take the faceoff. But he refused to fight Westgarth, and instead chases down Smid... leaving Westgarth to fight Lain anyways.
Here's McGrattan talking about it:
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Thanks for this. I always thought Torts was a fricken hypocrite for getting angry at Bob to begin with. However, my big argument with how everything transpired was that the line brawl would have never happened if Torts decided to throw the top line out against the 4th line. I didn't think for one second that the Calgary players would have 'jumped' the Canucks - like how does that ever happen any longer? I can't remember 4th liners just jumping 1st liners, perhaps with the extremely rare egregious hit committed by a 1st liner.
Bob got fined for that, but I still say he didn't do a thing wrong that game in starting the 4th line, but Torts somehow made things bad for his team - like he did all season long in Vancouver.
Thanks for posting this.