By any measure, the Minnesota Wild had a superb regular season and are one of the NHL's best teams.
The Wild won 49 games and tallied 108 points, the second-most in the Western Conference. According to our numbers, they were the third-best team in hockey, the top team in the West, and had a 7.8% chance of winning the title -- which was, again, the best mark in the West.
So it was no surprise that Minnesota was, per our numbers, a big favorite in their first-round playoff matchup against the St.