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Well, Brandon Prust gets one wish: Brad Watson won’t be doing any more Montreal games this series.
There is no way the NHL can assign him after the Game 2 confrontation with the Canadiens’ forward. And, we’ll really learn what the league thinks of Watson’s performance when conference final referee assignments are announced.
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I followed up with a few more veteran players today, and two stood out. Both came from guys who’ve played at least a decade.
“I’ve never seen Brad Watson do that to anyone,” one said. “Prust shouldn’t have gone public, but there is no way he is lying. You can’t make that up.”
The other player said Watson rates well compared to his peers, “… but demands respect. If he gets it, he’s in a good mood. If he doesn’t he’ll snap.”
Those two quotes are telling. Prust said something — probably not as innocent as he claims — and Watson snapped. Teams know tendencies of the refs. Prust had to keep his cool. But, in an emotional post-season game, so does Watson.

Excellent work as usual by Friedman. Nobody comes out of this thing looking all that great, eh?