Teams have reached out to Nick Tarnasky after viral fight on golf course!

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. While most of the interview was focused on the viral video and the details of the fight between Tarnasky and a drunken golfer, a lot what said about his career in the NHL and in the KHL and his interesting journey as a professional hockey player.

However, the viral fight has been blowing up Tarnasky’s phone and during the interview with Bissonnette, the former NHL enforcer revealed how he was contacted by some of his former teams to see if he still had it in him to lace up the skates again. Bissonnette immediately asked him who called and if Tarnasky would even considered returning to the NHL.

“It’s nice to hear from every single team that I played with for the 13, 14 years of my life.”

Bissonnette immediately asked: “To call you back to play?”

To which Tarnarsky responded: “Oh yeah, I hear from guys from Springfield in 2005. Like, guys are fired up.”

Bissonnette raised the bar when he stated that perhaps Tarnasky could land a PTO (professional try out contract) off of this, to which the former enforcer laughed and said:

“Yeah, F—‘ I don’t know. I’ll have to lose a few pounds to get that back.”

But Tarnasky did look good when he had to take on a drunk golfer last Tuesday when the former was threatening golfers and a marshal on a course. Tarnasky explained 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. When the former NHLer caught up to the troublesome gang, things escalated quickly 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.

He explained the whole situation and so much more during his interview with Bissonnette, and even had a message for his drunk opponent.

While Tarnasky is hoping the buzz will die down, I wonder who he would feel if an NHL team would come calling for his services.

After all, his hockey career started 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.

Would you want your team to give him a shot on a PTO for the upcoming season?