Recently, the Winnipeg Jets and Minnesota Wild faced off in back-to-back games, and unsurprisingly, the division rivalry brought out the intensity and the drama in these encounters.
After a collision between Brendon Dillon and Kiril Kaprizov a day earlier, it came as no surprise that retaliation was coming, and it resulted in a high-stick from Hartman on the young Cole Perfetti.
Unfortunately for Hartman, when he told Perfetti that it was an intentional act as payback, it was all caught on microphone, and with more matchups this season, we could see much more of this.
After the game, Head Coach Rick Bowness revealed that Perfetti kept that all to himself, and if he had told anyone on the bench about it, things could have gotten much, much worse.
While anyone could have been the target of the Wild's rage, it ended up being the youngster Perfetti, so next time these two teams meet, it's hard not to see this escalating further.