“He’s out there for two reasons and that’s either to fight or hurt,” Claude Julien said about John Scott. “So he did his job tonight.”
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Those words were said shortly after John Scott laid out Loui Eriksson and fought Adam McQuaid before leaving the game with a match penalty on October 23rd, 2013. Loui Eriksson was skating in his first season as a member of the Boston Bruins and had just finished dumping the puck into the Buffalo Sabres end of the ice before being blindsided by future NHL All-Star Game captain and MVP John Scott.