from Michael Russo of The Athletic,

Coach Dean Evason was livid referees Ghislain Hebert and Jordan Samuels-Thomas called only coincidental fighting majors on Dumba and Megna rather than what the Wild felt was textbook instigating. That would have given Megna 17 minutes of penalties and the Wild a power play with a chance to tie.

“I thought that was an instigator … automatic,” said Dumba, who periodically has had to fight for clean checks and in 2018 had his season ended when Matthew Tkachuk gave him no choice but to fight after his unpenalized check on Mikael Backlund the week before. “I mean, two guys don’t make a play on the puck and come right at me. It’s an instigator.”

Evason echoed that sentiment to both officials during an animated meeting at the Wild bench before the third period.

“If you make a clean hit, you shouldn’t have to be confronted by two people before you fight,” Evason said after the loss. “That doesn’t make any sense. One guy grabs him and he jostles with that guy and punches back and forth. And then another guy comes in and he has to fight for a clean hit. That shouldn’t be in our game. That was the key point in the game.”

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