After the Stars went 3-of-6 on the power play in Game 2, Minnesota coach Dean Evason suggested that not all the penalties against the Wild were legit.
His response came to Pete DeBoer noting that the Wild take a lot of penalties. Evason suggested that the Stars embellish many of the penalties.
“We felt that they had some bigger people probably go down pretty easy in that hockey game,” Evason told Minnesota reporters Thursday. “We’ve talked about this before, and it’s a fine line because we don’t dive. Our team, the Minnesota Wild, don’t dive. There’s so many times I would love to go in there and go, ‘You know what guys, let’s embellish.’ I mean, you want to draw penalties because of how hard you’re working and how gritty you are and whatever.”
He used the example of physical star Kirill Kaprizov and the abuse he takes.
“He doesn’t go down very often, probably got hurt [in Winnipeg] because of it,” Evason said. “But we don’t do that. That’s not what we do. But yeah, there was some of that [Wednesday] night.”
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