Emotions got the best of Dalton Prout on Sunday in a loss to the Tampa Bay Lightning, but you wouldn't know it by his sober self-reflection.

The Columbus Blue Jackets defender provided a truly composed assessment of his sucker punch on Nikita Kucherov, essentially explaining that he's good with the one-game suspension he received for the heavy hand.

"I think the league did a good job. I'm going to serve my punishment. It's fair," Prout said, according to Todd Jones of the Columbus Dispatch.

"You never have any regrets about trying to play the game hard and within the rules. Sometimes you step over the line. Sometimes in that situation you react too much on emotion or adrenaline. You don't always do the right thing."

That's certainly a refreshing take, but we have to ask, what sort of adrenaline spike was happening on this one?

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