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Matt Cooke Ready For His Return

05/07/2014 at 2:19pm EDT

from Mark Lazerus of the Chicago Sun-Times,

Matt Cooke returns to the Minnesota Wild lineup for Friday’s Game 4 coming off his seventh suspension, the seven games he sat out for kneeing Colorado’s Tyson Barrie upping his career total to 32.

But Cooke continued to insist he’s a changed man, and that the Barrie play was the exception, not the rule.

“Although this one situation happened, I still believe and know that I’m in a good spot as far as the way I approach the game, to go out and play a physical style without being [risky],” Cooke said on Wednesday. “Obviously, there’s the one situation that’s going to be in my head that it happened, but I’m a firm believer in the work that I’ve put in to change the style, to change my approach to the game, to allow me to go out and have success.”

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