The 2018 NHL Playoffs are officially upon us, and your Minnesota Wild just so happens to be a proud participant for the sixth consecutive season. After five years of early exits, fans of the team from the State of Hockey are desperate for a deep run at the Stanley Cup, and hopefully that run begins tonight in Winnipeg.
With the team’s best defenseman out for the entirety of this postseason, the Wild will need huge contributions from everyone in the lineup if it hopes to get beyond this opening round, one in which Minnesota is seen as an enormous underdog by pretty much every hockey mind on the planet.