The Minnesota Wild are the NHL’s best team. No I’m being serious.
Now they’re hosting the Los Angeles Kings for the second time in two nights and are riding high, feeling good, feeling great, oh yes, oh baby. This team.
With offense coming from every line throughout this five-game win streak—some nights it’s Kirill Kaprizov doing the heavy lifting, others it’s even the fourth line of Nick Bjugstad, Nick Bonino and Nico Sturm—they have just endless waves of pressure coming crashing into their opponent’s zone.
As the Wild currently sit second in the West Division with three games in hand over the St.