{"id":640466,"date":"2026-05-13T11:21:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:21:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/640466\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T11:21:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T11:21:15","slug":"butt-end-incident-leads-to-off-ice-war-of-words-between-wilds-michael-mccarron-and-avalanches-josh-manson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/640466\/","title":{"rendered":"Butt-end incident leads to off-ice war of words between Wild’s Michael McCarron and Avalanche’s Josh Manson"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The second-round series between the Colorado Avalanche<\/a> and Minnesota Wild was always destined to be a bit of a slugfest, and it’s delivering the goods.<\/p>\n

However, after Game 4 \u2014 which the Avs won 5-2 to take a 3-1 series lead \u2014 the intensity has boiled over off the ice, and it’s all thanks to a butt-ending incident that earned Avalanche defenseman Josh Manson a four-minute minor.<\/p>\n

In the first period, Wild<\/a> forward Michael McCarron checked Manson hard and wound up falling on top of him. The two wrestled for a little before Manson could be seen striking McCarron in the side of the head with the butt-end of his stick.<\/p>\n

\"Michael <\/p>\n

Minnesota Wild forward Michael McCarron and Colorado Avalanche defenseman Josh Manson kept the intensity going off the ice after Manson was called for butt-ending in Game 4. (Jerome Miron-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

McCarron went down in pain, and upon review, Manson was dealt a double-minor for butt-ending.<\/p>\n

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The Wild scored on the ensuing power play, and McCarron laid into Manson during an intermission interview with ESPN.<\/p>\n

After the game, McCarron continued to criticize Manson’s brand of play.<\/p>\n

“I blew him up, and he grabbed me and pulled me on top of him,” he said. “He took his butt end and clearly butt-ended me in the face. I don\u2019t know how it\u2019s not a five-minute. I think the rulebook says it\u2019s a five-minute if you butt-end someone in the face.”<\/p>\n

According to Sportsnet<\/a>, Manson claimed that he simply lost awareness of where his hand was on his stick when he took a swing at McCarron, whom he said he was angry at for falling on him.<\/p>\n

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“My intention wasn’t to butt-end him. Did I want to punch him in the head? I did want to punch him in the head,” Manson said.<\/p>\n

\"Josh <\/p>\n

Colorado’s Joshn Manson battles Minnesota’s Yakov Trenin in Game 4 of the two teams’ series in the second round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs. (Matt Krohn-Imagn Images)<\/p>\n

The series shifts back to Denver for Game 5, and something tells me we probably haven’t seen the last of this one.<\/p>\n

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However, Minnesota is in quite a hole, so keeping their postseason alive should be at the front of their mind, not getting back at Josh Manson.<\/p>\n

But, no matter how you want to look at it, the heat is certainly getting turned up in this one.<\/p>\n

Matthew Reigle is a writer for OutKick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The second-round series between the Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild was always destined to be a bit of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":640467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[1223,4828,385,259870,99],"class_list":["post-640466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-colorado-avalanche","tag-minnesota-wild","tag-nhl","tag-outkick-sports","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=640466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/640466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/640467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=640466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=640466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=640466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}