Good afternoon Wilderness. I want to look at what really inspired the current run to the playoffs and the subsequent performances in the playoff from the Wild. Many things can be given a certain valuation - the save percentage, puck possession, Nate Prosser's Time on Glass. What I'm saying is that there is seemingly a stat for everything these days.
But all the Corsi's and Fenwick's in the world could not pinpoint where it got better for the Wild. Let me take you back -way back - to January 23rd. The Wild had traded for Devan Dubnyk and he got the Wild a win in Buffalo and Arizona, but then dropped a pair of games to Columbus and the Red Wings right before they broke for the all-star game.