GIF: Rangers F Rick Nash sternly shoves Blue Jackets G Sergei Bobrovsky after disallowed goal

New York Rangers forward Rick Nash has to be having one of the weirdest games of his NHL career on Friday night in Columbus. 

Nash spent nine years with the Blue Jackets to begin his NHL career, and Friday's contest was his first game in Ohio since he was traded to New York in the summer of 2012. Nash was booed when he touched the puck in the first period, the crowd roared their approval when Ryan Johansen body-checked the Rangers forward, and then Nash was given a standing ovation (only shortly after fans had cheered him getting hit) during a subsequent TV timeout. Basically Nash is in a glass case of emotion...

That emotion may have spilled over in the second period. Nash broke in on Blue Jackets netminder Sergei Bobrovsky all alone and scored, but the goal was immediately disallowed by the on-ice officials who believed Nash had made incidental contact with Bobrovsky.

Nash went to argue the call and came face-to-face with Bobrovsky. After the two players appeared to exchange some words, Nash gave the reigning Vezina winner a stern two-handed shove to the face:

[Courtesy Fox Sports]