It was a common scene on both the Rocky Mountain Royals and the Winnipeg Voyageurs—hare and perennial Walking Middle Finger to Common Sense Bruce Bounder deliberately riling up the feared powerhouse of a wolverine Doug Dramson until they ended up inches away from getting into a fight. Rookies would get really nervous, veterans would intervene and yell at the two to knock it off already.
Adding nitroglycerine to the bonfire was the fact that the two had just clicked from day one. As Sietze Kraai, former coach of the Rocky Mountain Royals once put it, They’d have gotten along better if they’d hated each other’s guts!