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Can you imagine the up roar here if Peters/Lomberg didn't do what they did? It would be a week of articles about the team being too soft and not standing up for each other.

Everyone in the Minnesota Wild dressing room knows this is just hockey. You target an opposition player like that, you know there will be retribution. They can play victim all he wants, and Boudreau is great at that, but they know hockey justice.

Lomberg threw one punch then basically laid off. Compare that to Kassian who threw multiple punches of an unprovoked faceoff.

I don't have a problem with the whole situation. All it will do is galvanize this team with "us against the world" mentality. Flames will pay Lomberg back for whatever he loses in the suspension, which is more than he would have made in the AHL anyways.

Smart of Peters to send out Lomberg cause if he sent Tkachuk or Bennett out, they'd lose a core guy to a suspension. Even when he is knowingly getting into trouble, Peters is pushing the right buttons.