Revenge? Who Needs It? Corvo Fails To Back Up Threatening Comments

After falling victim to a questionable hit from Kyle Turris on Saturday in Ottawa, Boston Bruins’ defenseman Joe Corvo publicly vowed to exact a bit of revenge against the Sens’ young pivot when the two teams met on Tuesday. It was indeed a dangerous hit, one that could have easily caused the Oak Park, Illinois native to suffer a concussion.

“I’m not (happy). I’ve been walking around for two days with a headache. Just because I didn’t decide to lay on the ice and get carted off doesn’t mean it wasn’t a cheap shot. In my opinion, he saw my numbers and took an opportunity to seek revenge from the game prior (for his own hit against Turris). Hopefully he’s a man tomorrow and he’ll stand up when I come after him. I’m not going to try to hurt him. I’m going to try to fight him.” — Joe Corvo

Well, despite being on the ice together on numerous occasions during Tuesday night’s game, Corvo did nothing in the way of even check Turris, never mind drop the gloves with him. The former Carolina Hurricane claimed that Turris declined his invitation to fight during his post-game media session.

“I asked him and he wasn’t interested.  It ended like that. His teammates said he wasn’t going to fight me so that’s it.  I wasn’t going to be the idiot chasing him around.” – Joe Corvo

Taking Corvo at his word (because I have no reason not to), one can easily assume that Ottawa’s undersized forward likely did refuse to fight the Boston blueliner. Even if Turris had declined his invitation for fisticuffs, one would think that the Bruins’ 6’1″ rearguard would at least exact a bit of “revenge” through physical play or (clean) hits. Corvo wanted no part of it.

Now, with eight NHL defenseman in the fold, head coach Claude Julien has been given a variety of options when it comes to how he will organize the back-end of his squad. With this in mind, after actions (or lack thereof) tonight that may cause some to question number fourteen’s character, as well as yet another lackluster defensive performance, I don’t think it’s farfetched to think that Corvo could find himself joining us scribes in the press box sooner rather than later.