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Karl Alzner on bully tactics: Bruins would never let that happen to Tyler Seguin 03.16.13 at 4:57 pm ET
By Mike Petraglia

Adam McQuaid pounds Matt Hendricks in a third period fight Saturday. (AP)

Capitals defenseman Karl Alzner says the Bruins were dirty and cheap in double teaming on a fight against Matt Hendricks in the third period of Boston’s 4-1 win over the Capitals Saturday afternoon at TD Garden. Hendricks was cornered by Adam McQuaid and Shawn Thornton and eventually fought McQuaid at center ice.

“That’s the biggest joke I’ve ever seen in my life, the fact that they let those guys corner a guy like that. For all they know, Henny has a broken hand and can’t fight. If we had done that to [Tyler] Seguin with [John] Erskine, you think they would’ve let that happen? Questionable, very questionable.”

Can the Capitals do anything to respond?

“Go after one of their guys, guess that the only thing you can do,” Alzner said. “But we’re probably not going to do that because we’re not that kind of team but that’s the only thing you can do.”

There’s a back story to the Hendricks’ fight.

Hendricks got into it with Nathan Horton late in the second period, when Horton took a stick the forehead, resulting in several stitches. That angered the mild-mannered but physically imposing Horton.

“I was yelling at him, like three times,” Horton said. “I yelled at him and he didn’t look at me. Then he just kind of sprinted at me and caught me with my gloves [down]. Maybe he did hear me. I just didn’t think he did because he wasn’t looking at me.”

As for the third period, when Thornton and McQuaid cornered him, “Nobody’s going to want to go with Thorty,” Horton said. “He’s pretty scary, but we’ve got a tough team. Everybody’s got each other’s back.”

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  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-Flannery/100000220045416 James Flannery

    Sounds like Azner’s doing more to call out his own team. Hendricks was doing all the dirty work for them.

  • garyduke23

    McQuaid was just standing there and when Hendricks didn’t want to fight Thorton, he went at McQuaid. Thorton was following him long enough for another Cap to get in there to save him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/kfitzy1964 Ken Fitzherbert Jr

    reading what alzner says the only way that they r going to get back at the bruins is to do that to one of the bruins players what ajoke the bruins would kill them.

  • matty in the lake!

    tell hendricks too grow a pair and man up thorty did everything except talk about his mother and he still wouldnt go with him what a broad!!!

  • Troll Hunter

    “If we had done that to [Tyler] Seguin with [John] Erskine, you think they would’ve let that happen?”

    Yeah, I know what would have happened every Bruin on the ice would have stepped in unlike what the Capitals did. Capitals need to look at themselves rather than the opposing team and man up.

  • Bruinman86

    Guys like him should shut it after a loss. Emotions are high and dumb statements like that easily flow from their mouths.

  • Scalams

    Big B’s fan but gotta give Hendricks credit for stirring things up. Tough kid.

  • http://twitter.com/Zamoidaaaa1918 Nadia Zamoida

    Hendricks was the one who went after McQuaid cause he doesn’t know how to man up and face Thorty. Washington is ridiculous. If you mess with one of them you mess with all of them.

  • http://www.bruinscorner.com AdamBruinsFan

    Isn’t Alzner the guy that did the crybaby gesture to Lucic in the playoffs last year, well who’s the crybaby now.

  • fab4ever

    The media baits them….and they bite….Alzner is an idiot..not sure what game he watched….it was all about the high stick on Horton…everyone knew it except him? There’s never any lack of idiots in pro sports…

  • Bruinman86

    What a whiner!!

  • bospofan

    “Corner a guy like that??”.. really Alzner?? in the middle of the ice??? wasn’t it Hendricks that went after Mcquaid?? sounds like somebody needs to check his facts.. Alzner is the baby that made the crying motion to Looch then back-peddled afterwards.. a real tough guy… Alzner said he was reaction to the Bruins’ complaints about the officiating, not calling Lucic a crybaby.

    “We all know he’s one of the toughest guys in the league. It was more
    just a lot of guys complaining about calls out there, and there’s
    nothing we can do about the calls once they’re made,” Alzner said. “I
    think a lot of people took it the wrong way. Things happen in playoffs
    that sometimes you go a little too far. It’s just funny that it got
    caught on camera and everything. It was more than it was meant to be.
    Guys get intense and heated and I’m sure he understands.”

    So what did he say after that scrum?

    “The words were just, ‘Stop complaining.’ That’s all it was,” Alzner
    said. “Just stop complaining about the calls because it happened for
    both of us. You do your best not to complain, but you get frustrated.”

    Alzner and Lucic are both British Columbia natives, they played both
    with and against each other when they were kids, though they aren’t
    particularly close friends now. The Capitals defenseman made it clear he
    – of 63 penalty minutes in 215 NHL games – wouldn’t want to tangle with
    Lucic, who has 525 penalty minutes in 359 NHL games.

    “He’s got to be top 10 toughest guys, pound for pound, in the league.
    Everybody knows that,” Alzner said. “He would not be a guy that I would
    fight.”

  • somethin’s Bruin

    they didnt corner him……matter of fact they gave HIM the choice of who to fight. BTW, he made the correct decision ! Go Bruins !

  • Mike S

    Shut the F up Alzer. He more than had it coming and the fact that it took him 15 sec to fight either of them tells you what a punk he is.

  • Alzner’s a Girl

    When Alzner says they aren’t “that kind of team” he means they aren’t a team of men that stick up for each other. Instead of complaining about the Bruins he should be focusing on why his team is such a joke this year and will probably finish at the bottom of the conference. Hey Alzner, “Wah, wah, wah”.

  • kbksi

    Hey Alzner…..your wife just called, you left your testicles on the kitchen coutner.

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