Geraldine Tkachuk, the gamers’ grandmother, was noticed within the stands wanting lower than impressed.
As outstanding because the 10-man ejection might have been, it barely appeared to faze the members.
“I imply, I don’t suppose it’s unhealthy to play with emotion,” Brady Tkachuk advised The Related Press. “I believe when this group performs with emotion, we’re a troublesome crew to beat, and I believe we depend on our emotion and it reveals that we care, reveals that we care about what we’re doing right here and concerning the man subsequent to us.”
Two extra gamers obtained misconduct penalties later within the third interval, bringing the entire penalty minutes within the sport to 167.
Nonetheless, this being hockey, that wasn’t near a report. In 2004, a sequence of brawls late in a sport between the Senators and the Philadelphia Flyers led to 419 penalty minutes. Sixteen gamers have been ejected from that sport, however by no means greater than seven directly.
“It’s only a hockey sport,” Maurice mentioned dismissively to reporters on Monday. “Each groups need to win, and also you get a little bit snarly. It was enjoyable, it was good.”
Requested the place the sport ranked in his profession for physicality, Maurice mentioned: “That’s gentle. We solely obtained to 160-some minutes. It’s obtained to get into the 250s earlier than it will get too squirrelly.”
