“You’re really going to start with this one?”



What else did Ryan Johansen expect? After all, he was the recipient of this from archnemesis Ryan Kesler on Aug. 5:



For the uninitiated, Johansen and Kesler don’t much care for each other. Johansen, after a particularly nasty game between the Nashville Predators and Anaheim Ducks during the 2017 Western Conference final, wondered aloud how Kesler’s family could even like him.



Even a relatively tame Twitter beef is enough to jolt the NHL from its August slumber. Johansen responded to Kesler’s tweet with his own, offering to “pay for your parking.”



“I don’t know what he was doing that day,” Johansen said. “Clearly I don’t think he was thinking right because he made a little bit of a fool of himself.”



If things escalated further, Johansen wouldn’t say. But the Predators’ No. 1 center discussed several...