There are rarely soft spots in the schedule in an entire 82 game season — it just feels so good to have that back. Parity reigns in the NHL, but a matchup against the Arizona Coyotes provides as close to a "gimme" game as there can be.
Having just won their first game of the season against the Seattle Kraken on Saturday, the Minnesota Wild will head to the desert to take on a last-place squad that wasn't built to be a winner and is living up to that expectation. How the Coyotes are floundering is astounding and numerous.