We’re back. With the Iowa Wild starting their season, there’s been morning skates, a scrimmage, and a multitude of pre-season interviews that have kept me from this side project.
If you don’t know what I’m talking about, I’ve been working through Rob Vollman and friends’ 2017 edition of the Hockey Abstract which has given the Wild praise as “a strong candidate for a home playoff seed”.
In examining Vollman’s thirteen criteria for evaluating NHL teams, the Wild have only broken the top 10 in their metrics once by virtue of Devan Dubnyk anchoring their goaltender battery.