Bobby McMann saw red when buddy Dakota Mermis was hurt.

Then he saw white, as in the first Tampa Bay Lightning foe to give him grief in the scrum that followed Gage Goncalves’ knee-on-knee hit of Mermis on Monday.

Thursday he saw the view from the stands, serving a one-game NHL suspension for his one-handed stick swing at the shoulder and head of Tampa’s Oliver Bjorkstrand. After McMann’s time-out, while he and the Maple Leafs grumbled that Goncalves did not face a league hearing, he conceded better judgment was called for in the heat of the moment.

“It’s an emotional game and things happen,” McMann said Friday as he was re-activated to face the Edmonton Oilers . “You make quick, emotional decisions and hope the league handles it the right way.

“There was nothing malicious about it

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