Every single member of the Minnesota Wild did their part tonight as they beat down the Edmonton Oilers by a score of 2-1.
It was a much more dominant performance than what the score tells you on first glance. One of those games where you can just comfortably watch and know that this team can suffocate any offense of any team in the entire NHL. They had to do that late into the game, but they also took advantage of a team that was lost defensively.
The Wild finished with more than double the scoring chances at 5-on-5 than the Oilers (27 compared to Edmonton’s 11) and had the advantage in every other underlying metric you want to think about.