Kevin Bieksa

I'm like, you idiot.

So you're putting a target now.

You're supposed to be protecting us, and you're telling the tough guy to go run us just so you feel justified to the coaches fighting this guy.

So as you see Kucherov in the first two periods, he was consumed by this whole game within the game.

And he was taking runs at Anderson from behind and slashing a stick out of his hand.

And some guys, like you said, some guys I don't want have anything to do with that.

Like the Siddines were never a part of any of the shenanigans with Chicago or San Jose.

Like, I want my skill guys to be above that and not, like, put fuel on the fire, so to speak, and make plays and play.

And Kucherov wasn't doing that for two periods until he finally got it together and scored.

He would say that to you?

Yeah.

He would say, go get him?

Don't pick fights for me.

So I had a similar story, similar.

Michael Samuelson, remember him?

Sweet, good player.

He was in Detroit, then he came over to us, and he would say to me before the first time we played Detroit, he's like...

Can you go have a word with Cromwell in the warm-up?

And I go, why?

He goes, like, he's going to hurt somebody with one of those hits, right?