Kevin Fiala wants to take the sole blame for the Minnesota Wild’s surprising loss to the Buffalo Sabres on Friday night. And while he couldn’t have surely done it all by himself to prevent the 5-4 defeat that handed the Wild their seventh loss in the last nine games, there was a little bit of a stutter of a play to hand the Sabres a tying goal in the third period.
The Wild were controlling the play for the most part in the first two periods, but just the brief moments of collapse brought down this team and forced Minnesota to leave Buffalo pointless.