Looking to stretch their win streak to seven games, the Minnesota Wild came into the game looking to pounce on a recently struggling San Jose Sharks squad. After a shootout loss against San Jose at home in November, the question coming into tonight was would the Wild be able to generate offense against a Sharks team ranked second in the league in penalty kill.
On the other side of the ice, young goaltender, Filip Gustavsson, looked to extend his streak of dominance between the pipes. In his last four games, the twenty-four year old Swede has posted a 4-0-0 record and an impressive .