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.
#NHLJets coach Rick Bowness just told me Cole Perfetti kept Ryan Hartman's comments about deliberate high-stick to himself until after the game. Bowness says it would have been dealt with much differently had the team known during the game.
The play Hartman high-sticked Perfetti for was this one: