Tonight’s game at Air Canada Centre well and truly started off with a bang. On the opening face off, Joe Thornton and the Maple Leafs’ Nazem Kadri exchanged several slashes that got them both tossed from the circle and ultimately ended with a fight from the wing — all this before the game ever really got started.
Everyone is already talking about this fight. Not because Thornton won it (which, let the record reflect: he did that), but because Kadri ripped out a piece of Thornton’s famous “lifestyle beard” in the process.