Youth team investigating coach and ex-NHL enforcer Nick Tarnasky after he goes viral in golf course video

Former NHLer Nick Tarnasky is reportedly under investigation and his job as a u-17 minor hockey coach in Red Deer, AB is at stake.

Tarnasky, of course, has gone virals this week after absolutely STARCHING a drunken fool on an Alberta golf course. The video shows Tarnasky's group arguing with a pair of apparently drunk men about pace of play. Some harsh words — "You're not that tough," "Pick your s*** up and get going" — leads to one of the men repeatedly yelling "F***ing cry about it" at Tarnasky and challenging him.

The man rushes Tarnasky and... well... that's where the real fun begins.

Tarnasky throws the man into a lake and them proceeds to personally narrative each face punch with a loud 'BANG! BANG! BANG!' when he comes back for more.

Red Deer Minor Hockey confirmed to the Associated Press that they are aware of the viral video and they are investigating the matter internally.

“We are aware of a video circulating on social media involving a coach with Red Deer Minor Hockey,” the organization said in a statement. “At this time, given that we understand the matter is being reviewed by local policing authorities and we are conducting our own internal investigation into the alleged incident, we will have no further comments.”

Come on...

In my mind, Tarnasky did nothing wrong.

He warned the aggressor what would happen to him if he escalated things and he simply followed through. I would expect that this will all blow over in due time and Tarnasky will go on living a relatively quiet life in Red Deer, AB.

Read below for the full context and video from Tarnasky's on-course altercation, published as events occurred.

Ladies and gentlemen, we've got an absolute beauty of a viral video for you today.

There's a viral video making its way around social media today and it just so happens to feature former NHL enforcer Nick Tarnasky.

From what I can decipher two groups of "gentlemen" are in a disagreement on the tee at a Canadian golf course. Tarnasky can be heard saying that the group in front of them "stood around for 23 minutes", so I can only imagine that there's a pace of play issue here. That's all but confirmed when buddy in the blue floral shirt appears too drunk to even tee up his ball.

I'm guessing that Tarnasky and his group asked to play through a group of drunken idiots and were rebuffed. That's when things escalated.

Tarnasky warns his aggressor that "you don't wanna go me" and tells him that if he comes at him "I'm gonna throw you in this f***ing lake unless you get going".

That's when things go off the rails and Tarnasky proceeds to not only throw this idiot into the lake, but he also dummies him with literal "BANGS" to the face and pigeon tosses him like he's a pebble.

Check it out:

The way that buddy comes army crawling out of the lake... absolutely priceless.

For the record, Tarnasky has 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. Definitely not the guy you wanna mess with on or off the ice.