ST. LOUIS -- A week before the NHL trade deadline, as the Wild analyzed players they thought about adding to their roster, they watched video of Sean Bergenheim's 23 career playoff games.
Specifically, they watched as Bergenheim helped get the Tampa Bay Lightning to the 2011 Eastern Conference finals, scoring nine goals in 16 games.
That performance prompted the Wild to send a 2016 third-round draft pick to the Florida Panthers in late February for Bergenheim and a seventh-round pick.
Now, despite Bergenheim being a healthy scratch in the last five Wild games that mattered, the team is hoping his past playoff success pays off now; they have inserted the 31-year-old forward into the lineup for Thursday's Game 1 of their opening-round series against the St.