MAJOR: Minnesota Wild Star Caught on Hot Mic Admitting to Intentionally Attacking Player

With players being mic'd up more and more now us as fans are learning more about what the interactions between players are like. However a hot mic has just caught a Minnesota Wild forward.

Hartman Caught Admitting He Intentionally Attacking Jets Forward

During the game between the Jets and Wild, Ryan Hartman high sticked Cole Perfetti off a faceoff and admitting he intentionally high sticked him.

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Wow. #mnwild F Ryan Hartman flat out told #NHLJets Cole Perfetti he deliberately high-sticked him in the face as payback for the Brenden Dillon/Kirill Kaprizov play a day earlier.

Source: Cole Perfetti, just now, AND the microphone he was wearing in game that caught it all.

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More Comments About The Intentional Play

Jets Head Coach Rick Bowness heard about the incident but kept the comments to himself until after the game.

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Bowness says it would have been dealt with much differently had the team known during the game.

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"He said it in kind of a respectful way. No disrespect, nothing against you, it had to happen for what happened to Kaprizov there."

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"Kind of a weird thing to come out and admit it. He blatantly said it was for what happened (Saturday), even though I didn't even do anything in the play. I had nothing to do with it."

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It is safe to say that the next matchup between these two teams is going to be interesting as Ryan Hartman may very well have a target on his back.

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