The story starts, and it stops with Blues goaltender Jake Allen. And really, he wasn’t god-like in the game as his defense helped him numerous times with bad rebounds and loose pucks that got swept away. But there were some amazing saves by the Blues netminder that took a shelling from the Wild all game long. Zach Parise scored with 23 second left in the game to force overtime, but that was all the Wild could muster past Allen.
The first period was scoreless, but the Wild, with a raucous, boisterous, and rowdy crowd of 19,168 behind them, dominated shots, zone time, shot attempts, and just about every category you could think of except the scoreboard.