So the long homestand didn’t serve the Wild quite as well as we may have hoped coming in. Minnesota did take points in four out of its five contests at Xcel Energy Center, only losing in regulation to the Washington Capitals. But in reality, the team lost three out of five, and really should have beaten Arizona and Anaheim, meaning it left two crucial points on the table. Hopefully those two points won’t come back to bite us in the end.
Minnesota now heads to a place that has haunted it for large parts of the season—the road.