The Wild set a team record for wins and finished with the fifth-most points in the NHL. The Timberwolves doubled their win total from the previous season.
Both teams delivered entertaining, successful, even historic regular seasons.
Both teams won two playoff games.
Winning only two games in the first round of a seven-game series lands nowhere near achieving something significant.
What became painfully obvious in watching their respective playoff flameouts is that neither team knows how to win under playoff intensity and pressure. Their flaws and inexperience were exposed as both playoff series dangled right there for the taking.