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Joe Corvo is bummed out that Kyle Turris didn’t want to fight

Ottawa Senators v Boston Bruins

BOSTON, MA - JANUARY 31: Joe Corvo #14 of the Boston Bruins takes the puck in the first period against the Ottawa Senators on January 31, 2012 at TD Garden in Boston, Massachusetts. (Photo by Elsa/Getty Images)

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While the Bruins lost a tough one to Ottawa last night 1-0, the game’s other storyline didn’t come to fruition either.

After getting lit up by Kyle Turris in their last meeting, Joe Corvo talked a lot about how he was going to get him for it. Corvo backed off of that declaration saying he had “foot-in-mouth” disease but it’s not as if Corvo would turn down the chance to settle the score.

While Turris said he’d defend himself if he had to, his teammates weren’t about to let that happen. Corvo asked about a fight during the game and was given the expected response by the Senators as Joe Haggerty of CSNNE.com found out.

“His teammates said he wasn’t going to fight me, so that’s it,” said Corvo, who also added Brendan Shanahan to his cast of recurring characters. “I wasn’t going to be the idiot chasing him around.”

That’s probably all for the best for Corvo because making statements saying you’re going to give a guy some payback is an easy way to land on the NHL’s radar for a suspension. Instead, Corvo had to settle for seeing Milan Lucic lay a big hit on Turris during the game to make up for it.