The regular season is certainly not the same as the playoffs and sometimes a team that sweeps the season series, gets absolutely killed by the same opponent in a playoff series. But saying that, this is going to be a game played with the same intensity as a first-round matchup and it is going to be a bloodbath.
Both teams have things to prove — the St. Louis Blues wanting to ensure that they have the dominance in the regular season, and the Minnesota Wild to brush some of those previous losses away and put up a win in their final meeting.