Excerpts from The Puck Daddy Q & A interview by Dmitry Chesnokov:
After the last incident on the ice, in which Grabovski was suspended for shoving an official, he said about you, “I think he is not Belarussian now, he is French because I never fight with Belarussian guys.” Maybe he doesn’t know you are Belarussian? Why would he say that?
Well, maybe. Maybe he thinks I am French? I don’t know. He talks a lot. But this was a spit in the face of all French [Canadian] players. When he said that I was French, he meant that all French are idiots. But they all read [about this], and it will only be bad for him during the next game. When you lose, just leave and be quiet, why do you have to say something about the French? I don’t care what he said about me, that I am French. But our French [Canadian] players read the papers, they saw what he said, and I don’t know what’s going to happen during the next game [between Montreal and Toronto].
Grabovski also said “if he wants to fight, we’ll go in the street and every minute of every day I’ll wait for him and we’ll fight.”
Once again, it is only talk. For two games I was asking him to fight. I even came out from the bench [to fight]. He tried to get involved with [Maxim Lapierre] Why would you challenge Lapierre? Lapierre would have killed him if he was out there on the ice. I came out on the ice, but he hid behind the referee and said: “Let’s fight.” But how is it possible?