Conference III Championship Belt Tale of The Tape: Winnipeg at Minnesota, 27 December 2014

by J.R.

Tonight, surprising Conference III Belt holders Winnipeg take on the Wild, which held the Belt for 51 days to start the season.

The Challenger: Minnesota!

The Champion: Winnipeg!

The Belt!

Minnesota Wild		Winnipeg Jets
16-13-3	Record	18-10-7
3-4-3	Last 10	6-1-3
Mike “Coach Wow” Yeo	Coach	Paul “The Joker” Maurice
93	Goals For	88
89	Goals Against	81
Zach “The Judgement” Parise (27)	Points Leader	Andrew “Big Bad” Ladd and Blake “Wheels of Steel” Wheeler (25)
“El” Nino Niederreiter (14)	Goals Leader	“Your New Favorite Player” Bryan Little (13)
Darcy “Mr Darcy” Kuemper	Goaltender	Michael “INXS” Hutchinson
None (yet)	Threero	None (yet)
Christian “Rollin'” Folin	Rookie To Watch	Hutchinson
6’1″	Average Height	6’2″
200	Average Weight	207
2	Title Belts Won	3
2-3 as Challenger, 6-2 as Champion	Record In Belt Matches	0-2 as Champion, 3-4 as Challenger

They’ll drop it at 6 tonight in St. Paul. Winnipeg has never successfully defended the Belt, but even if they lose it tonight, they’ll get a chance to win it back Monday as these two teams will play again — and again for the Belt — Monday.