Marcus Foligno Deserves A Nobel Peace Prize For Getting The Linesmen To Stop This Fight
Marcus Foligno is really good at caving other people's skull in. He's exceptional at it, actually. But just because you're good at something doesn't mean that you love to do it. You can be good at a lot of things you don't love. So being the good guy that Marcus Foligno is, he takes no joy into restructuring the faces of guys he gets in a scrap with. He doesn't live for the thrill of making guys eat through a feeding straw after their face becomes a canvas for Foligno's fists. The man knows how to throw a vicious right bomb, but he also knows how to live by The Code.
And The Code states that when a dude's face looks like this, you don't need to beat the brakes off of him anymore than you already have. Especially when its a 22-year-old rookie.
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I mean good on Knyzhov for at least answering the bell here and going for the scrap. Takes a big ol' set of stones to stand in the pocket with a guy like Foligno. But even better on Foligno for making sure he didn't need to go for the final knockout shot before this fight ended. He could have easily been a prick and just kept feeding him rights. But you break the code like that and it's only a matter of time before you're on the receiving end of one yourself. He's been around the block enough time to know how the Hockey Gods operate.
P.S. - Still my favorite Marcus Foligno fight. Fixes his hair a few times before getting the takedown against Shawn Thornton. Beauty.