Listen, I’m not one for dramatics (except I totally am), but there was a time in March this year when the sky felt it was falling around the Minnesota Wild. They had been so good for so long, even through significant adversity and injuries through most of January, but they were in a swoon that felt never-ending. Lots of the boys weren’t doing their jobs at the time – defense felt holey especially, but boy, did it feel like it really came down to the goaltending.
That probably wasn’t fair – as I’ll get into in a minute, Cam Talbot hasn’t actually lost a game in regulation since March 1st – but at the time I was absolutely pointing fingers.