Flashback Friday: Tkachuk’s hit on Zack Kassian and the ensuing fallout
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28.12.2025
Things got chippy in the last Battle of Alberta.On Tuesday, the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers played for the second time this season, the first time since the season opener. Despite being on Festivus, two days before Christmas, the two teams weren’t very festive.After a rather tame first period and an Oilers’ goal to make it 3-1, the Flames were trying to get stuff going with their fourth line. Nothing happened that shift, but after Kevin Bahl’s high hit on Zach Hyman, you just knew that the game needed a spark.As the Oilers continued to dominate, the Flames got increasingly frustrated, leading to defenceman MacKenzie Weegar getting a game misconduct for banging on the glass. Bahl fought Frederic to answer for the hit, and things settled down from there, at least until the third period. Midway through the final frame, Flames’ defenceman Rasmus Andersson stuck out his leg as Hyman was trying to get around him, leading to an Oiler power play, which made it 5-1. On his next shift, Andersson drew a penalty as Darnell Nurse was attempting to get him to drop the gloves.That penalty ended with five minutes on the clock, and on Nurse’s final shift, the spark finally came. Nurse and Adam Klapka were talking in the dying seconds of the game, two players that........
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