\u201cIt was kind of like an old school game,\u201d said Catton, who went all Eddie Shore on the Lightning early in the second period after Jordan Eberle was run into the boards. \u201cBut you know, we showed a lot of heart. And that was awesome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Catton certainly showed some heart and some heat after seeing Eberle fall to the ice and hit his head. The 5-foot-10, 178-pound forward immediately tried unsuccessfully to engage two Lightning players in a fight, then got 6-foot-2 defenseman JJ Moser to drop his gloves and trade punches before holding his own briefly and going to the ice.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cApparently, I got the wrong guy,\u201d said Catton, who\u2019d never fought in the NHL and had only one junior hockey fight his three years with the Spokane Chiefs. \u201cI didn\u2019t even know. I was just looking for whoever got him. And I don\u2019t know, one of their guys looked at me and we just dropped them.\u201d<\/p>\n
Kraken head coach Lane Lambert would say after the game that Catton\u2019s response \u201cwas a real spark for our hockey team\u201d on a night they appeared emotionally and physically invested in the outcome throughout. Montour, not long afterward, would also pin Lightning forward Pontus Holmberg to the ice in another altercation, while Ryker Evans and Vince Dunn got into it with opponents as well and had to be pulled away.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In other words, the deeply committed Kraken gave as good as they took in this game. And suddenly, they are back to only three points behind Nashville \u2013 which lost in regulation to New Jersey \u2013 with a game in-hand and 11 still to play in the race for a second wild card position.<\/p>\n
\u00a0Catton said he had no choice but to duke it out with somebody once Eberle got run. The Kraken were leading 2-1 on first period goals by Montour and Kaapo Kakko, and the Lightning had come out throwing their weight around to start the middle frame.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s your captain,\u201d Catton said. \u201cYou\u2019ve got to stick up for your captain. It\u2019s just kind of an unwritten rule of hockey. So, I did the best I could, but I had to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIt was kind of like an old school game,\u201d said Catton, who went all Eddie Shore on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":525338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5130],"tags":[5,4188,4,2686,234,5318],"class_list":{"0":"post-525337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-seattle-kraken","8":"tag-hockey","9":"tag-kraken","10":"tag-nhl","11":"tag-seattle","12":"tag-seattle-kraken","13":"tag-seattlekraken"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nhl\/116300163687366540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/525338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nhl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}