from Paul Friesen of The Winnipeg Sun,

It seems hockey’s old-school remains in session, even if it takes a hidden electronic device to expose it.

Players see a teammate get hurt and they plan for revenge. An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Or, in the case of the Winnipeg Jets and Minnesota Wild, two fights and a stick to the face for a crosscheck that sent a player to the injured list.

It turns out that New Year’s Eve afternoon fight between Adam Lowry and Minnesota’s Pat Maroon, right at the opening faceoff, wasn’t enough for the Wild.

They’d lost Kirill Kaprizov for a week or two in the previous game, after all. Someone had to pay.

Wait a minute – didn’t Brenden Dillon answer for that hit later in that game, dropping the gloves with the Wild’s Jake Middleton?

Yes, he did. And that should have been the end of it.

But hockey being hockey, players won’t rest until they get a little closer to a full pound of flesh.

It didn’t matter if the flesh didn’t even belong to Dillon.

Perhaps if Maroon had left Lowry writhing in pain on the ice, done for the day, that early fight would have been enough.

But Lowry seemed fine. Wasn’t even bleeding.

Enter Minnesota forward Ryan Hartman.

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