Heading into the latest five-game stretch, the Minnesota Wild were on Conference-winning pace, netting all ten points on the previous five.
Obviously that pace was never going to be sustainable, especially as they embarked on the West Coast swing of a lengthy road-trip. Historically, the road-trip through California always meant that your team was going to get beat up on and fight real hard to even come away with the odd point.
Instead, the Minnesota Wild came away with full points against the Los Angeles Kings and very nearly snuck a result against Erik Karlsson, Brent Burns and the San Jose Sharks.