WINNIPEG, Manitoba – Time will tell if what transpired in Winnipeg on Tuesday in another night of edge-of-your-seat, hold-on-to-your-hat and stay-away-from-sharp-objects playoff hockey is the knockout punch that takes out the NHL’s best regular-season team and scuttles its dream of a first Stanley Cup.



However it plays out from here, the Nashville Predators sure took one on the chin from the upstart Winnipeg Jets, who didn’t let a 3-0 first-period deficit bother them at all. The Jets roared back for four unanswered goals in the second period against Vezina Trophy-favorite Pekka Rinne en route to a 7-4 win and a 2-1 series lead.



Funny how things unfold in a series as highly-anticipated as this one was.



By the end of this night of epic hits and equally epic swings in emotion, it was the Predators, battle-tested and supposedly built for this kind of night, this kind of series, who looked like they were the new kids on the block, looked like...