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Minnesota paper compares Matt Cooke to Breaking Bad’s Walter White

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St. Paul, Minnesota doesn’t have a lot in common with Albuquerque, New Mexico and the Wild probably aren’t the NHL’s closest answer to Breaking Bad.*

Still, kudos to the Pioneer Press for promoting a story about Matt Cooke’s efforts to reform by using the critically acclaimed TV show’s font and color scheme, as you can see via this screen grab from The Score’s Thomas Drance:

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Naturally, if the 35-year-old forward’s alteration followed Walter White’s metamorphosis, then his actions would only become more polarizing. (Must resist Breaking Bad spoilers.)

Plenty of arguments cropped up when stories about his turnaround surfaced in Pittsburgh media starting in 2011-12, but even Cooke admitted to the Pioneer Press that it’s still a learning process.

"(The transformation) is not going to be complete until I’m done playing because I’m not naive enough to think that because technically I’m not a repeat offender that all those other things won’t quickly be put back into the media,” Cooke said. “It’ll be something that goes on for the rest of my career. I’ve prepared myself for that.”

So, the hope is that Cooke continues on his opposite-of-Heisenberg path. Just be warned if he sports a black fedora before games.

* - Here are two better guesses: the Phoenix Coyotes (for cheating death and desert climates) or the Toronto Maple Leafs for the “no one knows what might happen next” feeling ... although would that make Brian Burke hockey’s Gustavo Fring?

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