For as much time as fans of the Minnesota Wild may have spent “scoreboard-watching” the Colorado Avalanche’s game to determine playoff seeding in the West Division, the Minnesota Wild players may have beaten their fans out in that statistic. After the 8 P.M. start in Colorado, the Guys in Green let a 3-0 first-period lead slip away, and more.
The game started out well enough for the Wild, who have a convenient excuse in resting five key players: star forwards Kevin Fiala, Kirill Kaprizov, and Mats Zuccarello, as well as the team’s best two defensemen Jared Spurgeon and Jonas Brodin.