I think it's been an emphasis in their room to try and be tough because they've been pushed around a little bit.
I think they're just naive / not smart enough to know that they want literally none of that noise with Edmonton.
Like who on that team fights Kane? Nurse? Desharnais?
Thing is, even if you take out the Oilers big boys, like Ekholm / Bouchard / McDavid / Draisaitl / Kulak / Foegele etc all kind of dwarf the average kraken in size.
The thing that's even funnier I think is like why in the hell would you want to goad the Oilers into a potential special teams bout? I know our PP been mediocre if late, but really? When does that benefit anyone to let some of the most talented players in the league get into the game with time and space? And why in the hell would you want to get beat up to do it?!
I did laugh too, at one point the camera showed Nurse talking to Kozari and I thought he said something to the effect of "do something about this, or I will."