In the immediate aftermath of the David Pastrnak-Matthew Tkachuk that included several late blows from the Florida Panther, the Bruins held their tongue for the most part.

But on Friday morning before the Game 3, Pat Maroon let us know how he really felt. While he pooh-poohed the idea of him going after Tkachuk, he clearly didn’t like the late shots from Tkachuk that landed on Pastrnak.

“It was two skilled guys fighting. Tkachuk’s not going to fight me. So if I go out there and take a dumb penalty, my job’s not accomplished, right? So I can’t look at it like that. You just have to take numbers,” Maroon said after the B’s morning skate at the Garden before Friday’s Game 3. “Obviously I didn’t like it how he hit (Pastrnak) on the ground twice. I think that’s dirty. I like the idea of them fighting. I think Pasta did a good job. That’s what leaders do.. He stood up for the team. He took charge. You love that kind of stuff out of your leader. And he’s fighting another skilled player. But obviously, it’s a game within a game. I don’t like the aftermath of it, so we know that part. Listen, I’ll probably never play against Tkachuk anyway. Let’s be realistic…And if I do, may be things could happen.”

The last part of that quote was said with a chuckle, but Maroon believes the B’s need to use everything that happened in Game 2 as fuel.

“Yeah, I think we should be pissed off, for sure. Especially by the game, too, most importantly,” said Maroon of the 6-1 drubbing. “All the other stuff, whatever. The scrums, them yelling in our face when they scored, it’s over. It’s done with. We’ve just got to be mad here and play with intensity and play the way we’re supposed to be playing, we’re winning our battles, we’re going the same thing, we’re hitting, we’re playing the simple brand of hockey…we’re in their face…Obviously the stuff that happened, we know what happened and it’ll stay in this locker room.”

While clearly unhappy with what transpired in Game 2, Maroon stressed the B’s can’t be chasing vengeance.

“We have to stay even-keeled, never too high, never too low, right? Listen, you can’t be taking penalties, like myself, in between whistles. Their power play is eventually going to get one, right? You just have to be smart between the whistles, play hard. If anything’s out there, then maybe something will happen. But right now we just have to continue to play hard here,” said Maroon.