The Minnesota Wild can’t survive a game where they have multiple key elements to their identity, just not work one bit. Tonight was certainly screeching their limits to see how many things can just not exist, and still try and be a successful hockey team that comes out with two points.
In the first 20 minutes of this one, there just appeared to be no strong sense that the Wild were going to create anything offensively and with the defense leaking in opportunities that should normally be handled with complete control, there wasn’t anywhere to go.