The Minnesota Wild really felt the need to test out the new taxi squads and with Matt Dumba, Marcus Foligno, Marcus Johannson, Kevin Fiala all out for various ailments.
Head coach Dean Evason said that the team was going to come out with more “compete and intensity”. I’m not one to to buy into that being the difference, but it did translate into very strong defensive play. Colorado didn’t get their first shot until the 15:27 mark of the first. Unfortunately, it was this shot;
not a good start to the game for talbot, first avs shot is in the net pic.