from Mark Spector of Sportsnet,
Oh boy, how we’ve missed you, Battle of Alberta.
Fast, crisp, 4-3 hockey.
Big, edgy hits, with great quotes post-game.
And a hell of a fight… Oh, wait.
“He’s just a young punk that has to figure that aspect out in the game,” Edmonton’s Zack Kassian said of Calgary’s Matthew Tkachuk, after another Flames-Oilers game where Tkachuk played uber-physical yet refused an invitation to fight. “It’s sad because he’s a pretty good player but he’s a (expletive).”
The truth is, Tkachuk is exactly what this latent rivalry has lacked for so long — a skating, hitting, turtling stick of dynamite that ignited the Battle of Alberta once again on Saturday. He tracked down Kassian in the first period and labelled him, sending Kassian’s helmet flying.
Watch a different kind of game highlight package below plus the HNIC panel discusses the game.
added 3:40am, below, post-game video of Kassian and Tkachuk...
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