Another win, another step back from the edge.
After two atrocious losses to start the season — we promise we'll stop mentioning them soon — the Minnesota Wild found success in the second game of a five-game road trip over the Montreal Canadiens.
It isn't often that a 3-1 win, sealed only by an empty-netter in the dying seconds of the game, would be called a comfortable win, but from start to finish, the Wild felt in control of the match.
It started just six minutes into the first, with Joel Eriksson Ek showing off his hand-eye coordination by batting in a puck off a neat and tidy 2-on-1 with him and Brandon Duhaime.