Matt Dumba’s mom laughs as she tells the story of her 8-year-old son running into the house because he was going to get to play a hockey game at the Saddledome in Calgary.
“I get to jump over the boards today,” Treena Dumba recalls her excited boy screaming. “I go, ‘Pardon?’ He yells, ‘I get to jump over the boards today.’ I said, ‘Matty, Flames players jump over the boards because they’re six feet, honey. You’re not tall enough to jump over the boards yet. They’re really high.’ ”
Twelve years later, that funny memory popped into Treena’s head as she and husband, Charles, sat with pride and watched their son sprint up and down the ice during the Wild’s 3-0 Game 3 victory over the St.