Quoting: JaredOfLondon
no, he just skates away because he can. No one has to protect him because he doesnt want to fight. It's amazing how this crap keeps persisting when Matt Cooke nearly ended Bergeron's career when Lucic was literally 20 feet away, and then Cooke didnt fight Lucic ever and Cooke was as dirty as always every single time he faced the Bruins forever.
Reaves is a fine 4th liner and if he wasnt a fighter he'd still be 10x the hockey player that Watson has ever been.
Ellis is 100% one of the best defenders in the league and if you can name 20 better ones, at least 10 of those are wrong.
Josi, Chabot, Theodore, Hedman, Heiskanen, Kilnberg, Carlson,Petro, Makar, Jones, Ekblad, Hamilton, Giordano, Ekman Larsson,
Then you still have guys that are close: Rielly, Hughes, Paryako etc