McGrattan Finds a Familiar Dance Partner in Preds Loss

The Nashville Predators’ Brian McGrattan and the New Jersey Devils’ Cam Janssen are not strangers to each other by any stretch of the imagination. Before McGrattan joined the Predators earlier this week, his last NHL fight had been on January 25, 2010, against Janssen in Calgary while Janssen was with the Blues and McGrattan was with the Flames. “We go back to junior days,” McGrattan said. “I don’t even know what number that is in terms of times we’ve fought. It’s usually every game.” McGrattan and Janssen tangled at least once in the Ontario Hockey League, when McGrattan was with Oshawa Generals and Janssen was with the Windsor Spitfires. Per HockeyFights.com, they had fought each other at least four times in the NHL before Saturday night’s game. At 6’4″ and 235 pounds, McGrattan has about 20 pounds and four inches on Janssen. At 16:32 of the first period at the Bridgestone Arena, Janssen and McGrattan danced a...