CALGARY – Shortly after participating in a centre ice scrap featuring 477 pounds of fury and almost 14 feet in height, Curtis Douglas had a message for Adam Klapka:

At the tail end of their heaviest of heavyweight tilts, Douglas threw a pair of ill-advised cheap shots at a prone Klapka, who had ended the tilt seconds early with a knockdown.

“He apologized to me (in) the penalty box after for the late punches, but I think it’s fine,” said Klapka, whose six-foot-eight, 235-pound frame betrays the fact he may be one of the nicest men in hockey.   

“There’s so much going on, and he was just thinking we were still going. We got a power play, and we scored, so it was awesome.”

In a game that had been preceded by plenty of chatter over his team’s recent failure to respond to a pair of crease crashes by Colton Dach that injured Devin Cooley and endangered Dustin Wolf, Klapka’s triumph over Seattle’s six-foot-nine behemoth set the tone for a 6-2 win.

Douglas’s indiscretion did indeed lead to an early........

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