Maybe this year though, the Minnesota Wild need to take a step back from maintaining one of the league’s longer consecutive play-off appearance streaks and let the Draft Lottery hopefully offer a bright new star to build around.
The team’s recent form suggests that although they are still trying to maintain their wild-card spot and a faint hope of scraping into the play-offs, where as everyone says – anything can happen. Reality is that the Minnesota Wild, should they qualify, are in all likelihood going to find themselves bundled out in the first round.
In the past 10 games, the Wild have been on the losing side 8 times; meanwhile the St.