The Minnesota Wild finally tripped up and let a team get the better of them when they faced the Seattle Kraken on Thursday. But despite the 4-1 (really 2-1 with two empty-net goals) score line, there are still things to take away from this game and to still be hopeful in this young season.
Here are some thoughts.
1 — Cracks in the blue line
When it was announced that Dmytri Kulikov is taking a maintenance day after getting banged up, and Alex Goligoski was doing the same but maybe to a larger extent, my heart kind of sank and I had a bad feeling about this before puck drop.