Pre-season hockey is meant to be a time for tuning lineups and getting back in the swing of things. Unfortunately, at this time of year, there are also players looking to make an impact in more ways than one with their teams. Sometimes that is a prospect trying to impress in order to get a longer audition with the NHL club, other times it’s a newly acquired player trying to show his new club what he can do.
Most times, this means that player is trying to go out and score goals, or kill penalties. For Max Domi last night, this meant that he had to stand up for himself and prove how tough he was in an altercation with Aaron Ekblad.