This very maddening season of one of the most maddening teams in the world continued Thursday with a 4-1 home loss to the Dallas Stars, a team that Minnesota had been dogfighting with for playoff positioning all season. With the win, Dallas has all but put itself out of reach of the Wild in the standings, and actually jumped over St. Louis for the all-important third spot in the Central. It was a momentous victory for the bad guys, and a colossal disappointment for the good guys, who have now lost three in a row since a 6-0-2 streak, and have dipped below .
3 Things: Latest Wild loss to Dallas Stars is especially painful
