Well, it wasn’t exactly pretty, but Devan Dubnyk continued his run of exceptional play to start the season, stopping 31 of 32 shots, and the Wild found just enough offense to send the struggling Coyotes home to the desert licking their wounds.
Tuesday was a weird night for Minnesota, even from before the game, because with Mikko Koivu at the hospital to witness the birth of his third child (we really need to start timing these out a little better), and Joel Eriksson Ek out with a lower body injury, Bruce Boudreau was forced to get creative.