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Originally Posted by Calgary4LIfe
The McGrattan interview was great. It completely confirmed what I thought about that 'big brawl in Van' - Torts was an idiot. He was mad because he assumed Hartley wanted that brawl to happen. The 4th line was the starting line because they were being rewarded for their play from the game before (and the other 3 lines were being punished, essentially). That's all that Hartley said to McGrattan.
McGrattan stated the obvious too - never once in his career has he ever jumped a star and beat him up. The plan was never to beat up the Sedins, but rather wait for the line change and go after the 4th line.
McGrattan also shed light on the infamous hallway incident that was captured on HNIC where Torts was trying to get at it with Hartley. I guess Torts was incredibly lucky that McGrattan didn't end up just punching him out, as the thought more than crossed his mind, and McGrattan had no idea that there was a camera showing the whole incident (and he was looking for a camera!).
I really loved McGrattan and that team overall.
Thanks for posting that one gvitaly!
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McGrattan is probably incredibly lucky that he didn't punch out Torts too. I imagine that would have been a lengthy suspension and maybe even police charges.