HOCKEY’S BACK! HOCKEY’S BACK! HOCKEY’S BACK!
Deep breath… Aaannnnd exhale. Deep breath… Aaannnnd exhale. How do you feel? Better? Well you should, because I don’t know if you’re aware, but HOCKEY IS BACK!
After a long summer of trying to expunge the 2017 Playoffs from our brains, tonight, at last, we will have meaningful Wild hockey to help us create new and hopefully positive images of what this team can be. Wild fans should be cautiously optimistic coming into this season, because although the changes made in the offseason—which sometimes seemed like it would never end—felt more like tinkering than overhauling, this was a very good team last year that grossly underachieved in the postseason.