Cam Talbot is probably sitting in an ice bath somewhere.
It’d be a well deserved bath, one that follows a loss that wasn’t quite as deserved for the Minnesota goalie as his team left him in the dust for much of the contest.
The Wild coasted through an ugly first period, and Talbot kept his team in it with 14 saves.
The Wild appeared to draw back into the game in the second period on the power play, but the Panthers responded quickly with Frank Vatrano’s bar down snipe just three minutes later.
A late goal from Ryan Hartman made the final score 5-4, but the scoreboard was kind to the Wild in a poor effort.