What a week. After beating the Vancouver Canucks in dramatic fashion, the Minnesota Wild faced their most significant rival of the last two seasons earlier this week; COVID-protocol absences.
With both players and coaching staff absent, they took on the Seattle Kraken and looked flat, falling 5-2 in a sobering loss. With leading scorer Mats Zuccarello likely to miss tonight's game against the Colorado Avalanche, the Wild will have to lean on the top-heavy line of Kirill Kaprizov, Joel Eriksson Ek and Kevin Fiala to generate some offence.