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Originally Posted by Wolfman
I do, Johnny was man handled last year and nobody was there to answer the bell or defend him.
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The Wild game was an embarrassment, but nobody in the league is going to think twice about hacking Gaudreau because Tanner Glass is in the lineup. It was up to Monahan or Brouwer or even Johnny himself to retaliate and stand and make that message clear. They kind of just let it happen and if Staal and the rest of those Wild players feel that they can get away with hacking and slashing, you best believe that they will continue to until they are deterred.
Regardless though I still feel like we're a fairly physical team, and it definitely never alarmed me in the playoffs that we were somehow overwhelmed in that department against probably the biggest and most annoying team in the Anaheim Ducks. Even in the Tkachuk/Doughty saga with the Kings (another notoriously big and aggressive team) I never felt as if our team physicality was an issue.