More from Scott Walker

Two further notes from my conversation with Scott Walker in today’s paper:

1. Scott mentioned to me that a few fans were participating in a charity bike ride to raise money for cancer research in his honor. Turns out it’s Mike “Mo Must Go” Flanagan and his wife Leigh. You can donate here.

2. I asked Scott if he had spoken to Aaron Ward at any point this summer, and he said not since he apologized in the handshake line. (They’ll probably cross paths at the RecZone in August.)

Walker said he didn’t think his family situation played a role in The Punch — even in the best of times, Walker has been known to snap on the ice, notably head-butting Ottawa’s Mike Fisher during a fight in 2007 — but he did acknowledge it’s hard to know for sure.

“I don’t think that had anything to do with what I was going through then,” Walker said. “People say you don’t know how it can affect you, but I just saw Matt Cullen on the ice and Aaron Ward standing there, so I punched him.”