PHILADELPHIA — It sounded a little bit like coach speak when Barry Trotz said it before the game: Johnny Boychuk wasn’t going to be focused on Jakob Voracek, not when there were two points on the line.
Turns out, he was completely right.
Despite Voracek’s questionable hit on Boychuck earlier this month — the one that earned him a two-game suspension, and had Boychuk leaving the ice gesturing in anger — the two didn’t tussle in the Wells Fargo rematch Saturday and that was, Boychuk said, simply because there was too much on the line.
“It’s a tough sport,” he said.