Wild coach says missed cross-checking call cost them game
Minnesota Wild head coach Bruce Boudreau believes that a missed cross-checking call during Tuesday’s Game 4 against the Winnipeg Jets cost his team the game.
Winnipeg’s Josh Morrissey cross-checked Eric Staal in the head while Minnesota was on a power play in the first period. He got away with the illegal play, which should have given the Wild a two-man advantage had a penalty been called.
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“It cost us the game,” Boudreau said after the game, via Sportsnet. “My take is, it’s the same take that everybody in the building saw it as the refs looked at it and they decided not to call it because we were already on the power play.
“This was a 1-0 game that should’ve been a 0-0 game going into overtime at this stage.”
Morrisey says he apologized to Staal, but that didn’t help the Wild at all. They lost the game 2-0 and are now down in the first-round series 3-1.
