You can chalk it up to missing a few significant players in Mats Zuccarello, Alex Goligoski, and Jordan Greenway; but the Minnesota Wild played a pretty crap game against an opponent in the Colorado Avalanche, that are too talented to try and sneak a sleeper win past them.
At times they shot themselves in the foot — taking some really dumb penalties or sending pucks nowhere near their teammates because they wanted to get it off quickly — but in the end it’s just about a team that just didn’t have a good night of playing hockey.