I think it was Eric Johnson who did that. I wouldn’t mind it if they had called it right. He should have gotten a double minor for roughing and at most we should have gotten 1 minor. His punches were excessive.
What he did is not as “serious” though. You can rattle a guy by punching him with your gloves on and he has a helmet on, but it isn’t likely to injure the guy unless he bangs his head on the post or the ice.
When in the world did Eric Johnson become a tough guy! seriously! he’s been talking trash all series, he needs to be shutup and dealt with! Maybe being married to Jessica Simpson is making him tougher? 
I’m missing the Jessica Simpson joke?
The Wild need to start burying their chances or it is going to be game one all over again.
What great team defense these guys are playing. Playoff hockey! Enough said!
A great performance 
. They played like a team that wants to go all the way. Granlund is looking very good right now. Game 5 is going to be very interesting. GO WILD 
Wallster ><((((>
Game moved to NHL network because of the ot game.
Prediction:
As the away team in this series, the wild must win game 2 & 4 to win this series.
One more thing.
Stay out of the effing box. This team will kil is 5-4 and 4-4.
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What great team defense these guys are playing. Playoff hockey! Enough said!
Speaking of coaching.
After winning a playoff round for the first time in 11 years, the Minnesota Wild will reportedly bring back the coach that led them there.
Mike Yeo is expected to agree to a contract extension soon, according to sources of the Pioneer Press. Those same sources claim that both Minnesota and Yeo have “expressed interest in getting a deal done,” a key point that illustrates 1) the Wild want to keep Yeo, despite letting him coach this entire season in the last of a three-year deal with no guarantee of anything beyond; 2) Yeo won’t be hitting the open market for any of the current available gigs (Vancouver, Carolina, Florida, Washington) or ones that might come up (Pittsburgh, specifically.)
Yesterday, we asked if Yeo did enough this year to stick in Minnesota — and answered it pretty quickly.
The NHL’s youngest head coach at age 40, Yeo led the Wild to 43 wins this year, third-most in franchise history, and 98 points in the ultra-competitive Central Division, which featured the NHL’s third (Colorado), fourth (St. Louis) and seventh (Chicago) place teams.
The Wild also won a playoff round for the first time in since 2003— dispatching of the Avs in seven games — and showed great resilience against Chicago in Round 2, rebounding from an 0-2 deficit to make the series quite competitive.
Yeo did all this despite tremendous uncertainty in goal all season long, using four different starters while losing the services Josh Harding after he played at a Vezina-calibre level to start the year. Yeo also kept the team afloat as injuries sidelined Zach Parise, Mikko Koivu and Mikael Granlund for a combined 51 games.
The Pioneer Press report did not sa7y anything about the future of Yeo’s staff, however. Assistants Rick Wilson, Darryl Sydor and Darby Hendrickson have been with Yeo throughout his three-year tenure and, following Tuesday’s loss to Chicago, Parise spoke highly of the entire staff.
“I think [all the coaches] did a good job,’’ Parise said, per the Star-Tribune. “We were prepared. We made adjustments when we needed to make adjustments, and we switched lines when we needed to.”
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