Rangers coach Peter Laviolette gets into a screaming match with Devils bench boss Travis Green as hell breaks out on the ice in the opening seconds of the Blueshirts’ win Wednesday night at Madison Square Garden. He was very diplomatic in dealing with the match.
Meanwhile, Greene spoke to reporters a little more candidly about the matter.
“As far as Peter and I go, I look over and he’s screaming and talking to me,” Green said after his team’s loss.
When Matt Lempe and Curtis McDiarmid and all the other Rangers and Devils starters faced off in a full-on online brawl, TNT cameras showed the two rival head coaches jawing each other for at least 30 seconds, causing both men to I captured the scene where they were having an argument. They are very active towards their opponents.
Green questioned why Laviolette was so enraged in the first place and whether the Rangers coach had a full understanding of why the game descended into chaos in the second.
“I would like to go and talk to him, but to be honest, I don’t know why Peter was angry,” he said. “First of all, more or less, their players were lined up for the game before the match and this shouldn’t have happened. We all know why this happened tonight. . Even if something happened before the game that was obvious that they didn’t want to happen in that game, nothing would have happened.
“I don’t know why Peter is upset. It’s not my fault why he’s upset.”
There had been bad blood between the Devils and Rangers since Lempe’s particularly physical style caused Devils players to suffer twice. That included elbowing Jonas Siegenthaler in the face on March 11, resulting in a four-game suspension for the Blueshirts. young tough guy.
Lempe had already infuriated McDiarmid in that game by refusing to drop his glove before hitting the ball.
Laviolette admitted there was “a little bit of a gap between the two teams” and said the clash with Green was just “the emotion” of the match.
“That’s part of it,” Green said of the Rangers coach’s comments. “I don’t have a problem with that, but if you start screaming, I’ll take it back. And like I said, if we had had one fight last time, none of this would have happened.”
While Wednesday’s win leaves the Rangers with six games left in the season and a playoff berth already assured, the loss stings for the Devils as they try to keep their slim postseason chances alive.
The Devils and Rangers will not face each other again this season.
