Well, Wilderness, it doesn’t look too good, does it? Falling 4-0 to Darcy Kuemper’s Arizona Coyotes on Sunday all but sealed Minnesota’s fate this season as a non-playoff team for the first time since 2011-2012.
The Wild are still technically alive, but with three games left to play, a five-point deficit behind the Avalanche, and a three-point deficit behind the Coyotes, Minnesota would basically have to win all three remaining games, and Arizona and Colorado would have to lose all of theirs. If Colorado adds even one more point to its total, or if Minnesota fails to obtain an available point the rest of the way, it’s officially over.