Breaking: Hab & Preds brawl after Rinne shoves Gallagher to the ice.

There has been a rivalry slowing building up between the Nashville Predators and Montreal Canadiens ever since the huge trade of P.K. Subban for Shea Weber was pulled off, but tonight it looked for the first time as if there may genuinely be bad blood between the two sides.

After an altercation in front of the net had largely calmed down, Predators goaltender Pekka Rinne decided he wanted an extra shot at Canadiens agitator Brendan Gallagher, and when the opportunity presented itself he took it. 

Rinne shoved the Canadiens pest to the ice and that's when Habs defenseman Karl Alzner charged Rinne resulting in everyone on the ice once again getting involved in a melee, although at no point did it look like anyone was in serious danger of getting hurt. 

However at the end of the clip you can see there was Gallagher. the man who arguably caused all of this in the first place, once again getting in a cheap on former teammate P.K. Subban.

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