Brady Tkachuk took down Macklin Celebrini on Thursday night in San Jose, and Jacob Trouba made sure the Florida Panthers heard about it.
Gino Hard posted two angles of the sequence, and a couple of majors came out of the whole thing.
In the second one, Celebrini is face down on the ice in teal, Tkachuk stands over the play in white No. 8, and Trouba's No. 65 closes in from the other side.
It looked cheap, plain and simple. Do that to Celebrini in his own building and Trouba is going to come looking for you.
It's cutting the line at a neighborhood bakery and acting surprised when the owner comes out from behind the counter.
Did anyone expect a quiet night? Tkachuk brought 821 career penalty minutes with him to Florida.
Trouba didn't wait for a second invitation, which is exactly what a teammate is supposed to do in that spot.
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Macklin Celebrini ends up face down and the majors start flying
Tkachuk carries an $8,208,714 cap hit in his first season with Florida, so the Panthers knew what they were signing up for.
He came into the night at +1 with no points through one game.
Florida's roster also includes Matthew Tkachuk at $9,500,000, so that last name was going to draw some heat in this building either way.
Aleksander Barkov, in No. 16, was right there in the frame as the scrum built.
Paul Maurice's Panthers came in off a 1-0 overtime win in Carolina on Tuesday, the night Bokondji Imama and Nic Deslauriers dropped the gloves early.
Ryan Warsofsky's Sharks are playing their season opener at home, after a 2-1-1 preseason that closed with a 4-2 win in Vegas.
Darnell Nurse carries a $9,250,000 cap hit on that San Jose blue line.
The Panthers move on to Anaheim on Sunday, while the Sharks host Los Angeles on Saturday.
These two don't meet again until February 21 in Florida. That's a long time for the Sharks to remember a play like this, and they will.
Was Brady Tkachuk's takedown of Macklin Celebrini a cheap play?
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