Not only were the Wild playing their first game since the disappointing Winter Classic and in the middle of a five-game losing streak, but they were also handing a couple NHL debuts to Marco Rossi and Matt Boldy on Thursday in Boston. Needless to say, it was an important one.
Despite an early surge from the Minnesota Wild, the Boston Bruins opened the scoring at TD Garden tonight with a Taylor Hall power-play goal six and a half minutes into the period.
Minnesota answered with two power-play goals of their own under minutes apart, from Kirill Kaprizov and Nico Sturm.