Nick Tarnasky has message to drunken golfer he fought on the golf course!

This is the interview you have all been waiting for. On Tuesday morning, the Spittin Chiclets podcast released the interview by Paul Bissonnette with none other than Nick Tarnasky, the former NHL enforcer who went viral last week for his brutal fight on a golf course in Red Deer, Alberta.

Last Tuesday, Tarnasky and his group of friends asked to play ahead of the drunken idiots and were rebuffed. That’s when things escalated and ended up in the wildest fight of the summer, throwing the idiot into the lake, but also dumming him with literal “BANGS” to the face and pigeon tossed him like he’s a pebble.

Canadian police officers responded to the scene after reports of an intoxicated person trying to start fights. The suspect was gone by the time officers arrived, but he later posted a picture of himself, showing some minor bruising appears to be the worst of the damage.

The golfer also issued a statement a few days after the brawl, taking full ownership of his actions and laying none of the blame on Tarnasky himself.

“Yup that’s me guys, the guy that got dropped like a bucket of balls in a pond,” he said. “Not my finest moment I know, looks real bad.”

The interview between Bissonnette and Tarnasky took place less than 48 hours after the actual fight, and the former enforcer admitted right off the bat that it had been a couple of crazy days, hearing back from former teams looking to see if he’d be interested in lacing up the skates again.

Bissonnette kicked off the interview asking for details on how it all happened, with Tarnasky explaining how the drunk golfer and his friends were already causing trouble at the 10th hole at a club where the former NHLer has been a member for eight years, with a marshal informing Tarnasky and his crew that he had been threatened. Tarnasky assumed that the drunken group was just having fun, and at the time, didn’t think much of it and told the marshal he would ask them to speed things up if he caught up to them. He did not want to make a big deal out of it.

But it kept going, with more twosomes been threatened and having to wait more than 20 minutes per hole to play. At the 15th, Tarnasky got involved. When he asked the drunk golfer to get moving, the man immediately clenched his fists and became more aggressive. And Tarnasky explained what came next:

“That’s where the altercation starts and that’s what’s on the video. Obviously then everybody sees what then happens.”

Tarnasky then revealed how he wanted the guy to chill, saying that’s why he warned him he was going to drop him in the pond, but clearly the golfer made the mistake to not take him seriously.

And of course what everyone enjoyed in the fight were the sound effects on Tarnasky’s own punches and Bissonnette asked him if he also did that in the NHL:

“I was just trying to have fun and I mean I’m fighting on a golf course against a guy that I don’t even know what’s going on here. This might be a blast so have some fun with it. Whatever.

“The lake was close enough, I thought maybe give this guy a chance,” Tarnasky laughed later on in the interview.

The fight ended and Tarnasky stated that the golfer and his friends were told to leave as they had disrupted so many people including families and young teens.

Afterwards, Tarnasky and his friends, who had informed the club house to call the police, were approached by officers and the former NHLer walked up to them to tell them he was the one that threw the man in the lake to defend and protect other golfers and the club’s marshal. The police had already been aware of the threats made by the drunken group and told Tarnasky he handled the situation the best way he could.

Tarnasky accepted the podcast’s invitation to talk about the incident looking to clear the air and move on from the viral video.

“At the end of the day, I asked him not to, told him he shouldn’t get involved with me, asked him to move on. I gave him every opportunity not to and he charged at me… I’m not going to fold over, that’s not in my nature and what then I’m going to be the one to look like a coward, there’s no F—-ing way. So I thought the lake thing would be good, you know good laugh, but then he comes out of the F—-ing lake like the girl from that Ring movie and I’m like ‘dude what’s going on here, you know’?”

“I’m not trying to make a scene here,” Tarnasky added when mentioning he enjoys the course and goes there multiple times a week.

“I respect the people there and it’s unfortunate that it had to happen but when you go to a course and you challenge that many people, eventually you’re going to run into somebody that says “F—- it, okay let’s go.”

Despite going viral and getting a laugh out of it, Tarnasky admits that it should not have happened and that in the end, this is just an unfortunate incident.

“Like it shouldn’t have happened. Everyone’s getting a kick out of it, but it’s unfortunate because it’s not my mentality at the golf course, but the guy piped off at the wrong place.

Bissonnette knew how Tarnasky felt as he compared the situation to the one he was involved with earlier this season when he was assaulted by a group of men in November at a Scottsdale, Arizona restaurant.

Bissonnette was reportedly trying to smooth things over when the group of six men initiated an argument with restaurant staff. That’s when things turned violent and the men started throwing punches. Things escalated and the fight continued outdoors. Despite the fact that it was a six on one fight, Bissonnette held his own and managed to bruise up his alleged assaulted pretty well. The co-host understands how then the golfer might feel ashamed about the footage, especially if he is part of the community near Tarnasky and has a family dealing with the trending video and the comments online.

In the end, Tarnasky had a message for his opponeny, saying that while sure everyone is having a good laugh about it, he feels bad for him.

“He’s not feeling good about it for sure, and I mean, I’m feeling the anxiety of the messages, and messages, and messages, and they’re positive, like everybody reached out. I don’t understand how that would feel to be negative so, I mean, unfortunately it happened, but like I don’t think we need to beat a guy to death about it.”

The great interview keeps going about Tarnasky’s hockey career after he was drafted in the ninth round back in the 2003 NHL Draft. He had 297 career penalty minutes in 245 career NHL games split between the Tampa Bay Lightning, Nashville Predators and Florida Panthers. According to his hockeyfights.com page he’s gone toe to toe with the likes of Milan Lucic, Mike Commodore and Chris McGratton… oh and he’s 6’2, 230 lbs.

The interview is definitely worth listening to.