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VANCOUVER — The pre-game war of words between the Tanevs was edgier than the on-ice battle last December when they faced each other for the first time in the NHL.
Trash talk, that’s what brothers do, although soft-spoken siblings Chris and Brandon Tanev remember engaging in some playful banter rather than trading actual smack.
“We got into it a bit, like just about any other day between brothers,” says Chris, 27, a skilled, defensively reliable blue-liner with the Vancouver Canucks.