Matthew Tkachuk And Zack Kassian Drop The Mitts, Prove That Hockey Is The Best Sport In The World
What a moment for the sport of hockey. I know the fight wasn't necessarily a grade A tilt but still. This is what hockey is all about. The Battle of Alberta. You've got Matthew Tkachuk and Zack Kassian. A ton of bad blood between these two. A ton of back and forth going on here. The last time these teams played, Tkachuk rocked the shit out of Kassian twice and popped his helmet off both times. Then Kassian goes to the media and calls Tkachuk a pussy. Then Tkachuk goes to the media and says why should he have to fight Kassian since Kassian is 4th liner masquerading as a 1st line forward just because he's got McDavid on his roster. There was a physical back and forth. There was a verbal back and forth. And in the end?
The boys drop the mitts and settle it themselves. That's what makes hockey the greatest sport in the world. These two players had some beef and they settle it by using each others' faces as their own personal punching bags. And just as the puck don't lie, neither do the fists. Throughout this entire ordeal, Kassian has been in the right. Tkachuk took a couple of runs at him and he deserved to get his revenge. He didn't deserve to get suspended for sticking up for himself. So the fact that he got the decisive win here in the fight proves that the knucks don't lie either. But still, credit to Matthew Tkachuk for even squaring off with Kassian. That man is a total fucking psychopath and it takes an equal amount of deranged behavior to agree to fight him. Tkachuk knew he finally had to answer the bell here and he did just that.
Hockey in 2020 might be a little softer than it was 50 years ago, but every once in a while we get moments like this that prove that the game is still being played the way it should. The Battle of Alberta is so back. But if anybody even THINKS about touching a single hair on Johnny Gaudreau's body, I'll be the one throwing hands. Leave Johnny alone.