“Obviously, you don’t want to fight your best friends, but sometimes you have to do your job.”

Maroon and Kassian were teammates over parts of three seasons in Edmonton. Maroon, who played for Anaheim, Edmonton and New Jersey before joining the Blues last July, says this is the first time he’s had dinner with a former teammate one night and then fought him the next day.

But with the Oilers trailing 4-0 Tuesday, Kassian asked him “to go,” and Maroon didn’t say no, engaging in his team-high sixth fight of the season for the Blues. It was a fairly lengthy fight, with a lot of swings at each other and ending basically in a draw.

“At the end of the game, we talked about it,” Maroon said. “We saw each other in the hallway. It’s over. No one got hurt, thank God, and we can move on. ... He didn’t want it to happen. I didn’t want it to happen. But sometimes you have to do the business side of it. He was just trying to get momentum for his team.”

During the day Tuesday, Maroon said Kassian sent him family pictures. Post-fight, Maroon got another family update.

“His wife wasn’t too happy with the scar above his eye,” Maroon said.

Compliments of Maroon’s fists, apparently.

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