Winnipeg Free Press · Apr 16, 2018
Wild's bitter win over Winnipeg Jets makes for a better rivalry
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Opinion
TREVOR HAGAN / WINNIPEG FREE PRESSST. PAUL, MINN. — Minnesota Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau was musing the other day about the ingredients that go into a good playoff rivalry.
“It’s not a series until you get a hate on for each other and I think that was created near the end of the game,” Boudreau said Friday night after a late game melee capped off a 4-1 Jets win in Game 2 in Winnipeg.
“It’s a rivalry now.”
Yeah, it is. And after a bitter 6-2 Wild victory here Sunday night that saw Jets netminder Connor Hellebuyck run out of the game to chants of ‘Sieve! Sieve! Sieve!’ it is also now a series.
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