Torey Krug was riding high after his thunderous hit on St. Louis Blues forward Robert Thomas in the final minutes of the Boston Bruins’ Game 1 win in the Stanley Cup final, but goalie Jordan Binnington wanted to know just how high.

Krug’s hit on Thomas came after tussling with Blues winger David Perron, causing the sparkplug defenseman to lose his helmet in the Bruins’ defensive zone. He then went the length of the ice to rejoin the play, laying out Thomas in the process. The smooth-skating blueliner finished the sequence by going toward the crease, sending a glare toward Binnington.

“It was more a stare,” Binnington, the rookie netminder who helped carry the Blues from the league’s basement to playing for the Stanley Cup, told reporters on Tuesday.

“His pupils were pretty big. I don’t know if he was on something, but he was pretty fired up. It was a big hit, big play and the rink was excited.”

The netminder doesn’t often say much, preferring to let his play speak for itself, so the deadpan insinuation against Krug was a change from norms.

Krug smiled after the game when asked about the sequence of events.

“The guy ripped it off my head,” he said of his helmetless jaunt down the ice. “It’s part of a game. It gives your team a boost of energy. … That’s all you’re trying to do out there, make little plays that pushes your team in the right direction.”

Bruins teammate David Backes put it a little more simply.

“I think that was Torey Krug establishing himself in this series,” Backes said.