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NASHVILLE – Traditional wisdom says the fourth win of a best-of-seven playoff series is the hardest to get.

The Winnipeg Jets dismantled that tradition and scattered it in pieces along Portage Avenue in Game 5 of their first-round series against Minnesota.

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But head coach Paul Maurice doesn’t take much from that 5-0 win into the Jets’ next potential series clincher, Game 6 against Nashville, Monday.

“Probably nothing,” Maurice said, Sunday. “The games weren’t anything like the games that we’re playing now, just on style alone. And every single game, and I’ll include Game 4 where there wasn’t a lot of offence, there’s enough there for each team to win a hockey game.

“You’re not going to break this team and not have them show up in a game. They’re going to come and give you their best.’’

The pressure on the Predators is enormous.

This was a team that went all the way to the Stanley Cup Final a year ago.