The Minnesota Wild must be out of Turkey leftovers, because they roasted some Ducks this afternoon.
The game started with two sluggish shifts from the GREEF line and then Kirill Kaprizov’s line. Both seemed trapped inside their own blue line, until they finally broke through with a fanned-on four-on-two rush into the Ducks zone. This got the wheels back on the tracks, eventually leading to a heavy shift from Ryan Reaves and several quality shots. Then, they broke the dam that is Ducks goaltender John Gibson:
Displaying their famous two-way game, the GREEF line’s second shift generated some quality cycle time, ending up on Calen Addison’s stick for a seeing-eye goal.