After playing one of its worst games of the year Friday in Florida—and there have been some bad games this season—the Wild didn’t quite have the response that we would have hoped to see in opening this crucial five-game homestand. It wasn’t a terrible effort against the San Jose Sharks (a quick search at evolving-hockey.com argues that Minnesota actually had the better of the play in terms of basic possession metrics and expected goals overall), but the Sharks got more pucks through than the Wild did, and Martin Jones continued his confusing… but also not remotely confusing… dominance of the Green ‘n’ Wheats.
3 Things: The Wild were blanked (again) by Martin Jones and the Sharks
