It didn’t matter which head coach you asked on Monday, the prognostication was the same.



The rest of this star-studded, second-round matchup between the Winnipeg Jets and the Nashville Predators is going to look more like the track meet we saw in Sunday’s Game 2 than the suffocating display of Friday’s series opener.



“Lots of areas to get better (in),” said Jets coach Paul Maurice. “But that game (Sunday) night is a real good idea of what this should look like. There were chances at both ends. We were in alone three times, three two-on-ones, they get their chances, they made one more than we did. But the competitive spirit is right in the game.”



In Nashville, Peter Laviolette shared his opponent’s appraisal.



“I thought Winnipeg played a much better game and that’s what made it such a competitive, combative game and took five periods to decide,” Laviolette said. “And...