After a rough start for game one of the season, the Minnesota Wild we're looking to shake it off and resume the level of play we know they have in them, the type of play that handed them the best season in franchise history last year. There was a little extra on the line tonight, too, as the Wild would be facing off against Kevin Fiala, squeezed out in the off-season, and traded to the Los Angeles Kings after an 85-point season.
But a good start wasn't in the cards tonight, as it only took four and a half minutes for Marc-André Fleury to concede his first goal of the night, followed up by another two in the first 11 minutes of the gathey me.