ST. LOUIS – Nino Niederreiter, the Game 7 overtime hero when the Wild ousted Colorado in the first round of last year’s NHL playoffs, remembers how anxious he was before Game 1 of that series.
“So many nerves,” Niederreiter recalled Friday. “I really had no idea what to expect. I always watched it only on TV and when you see how much more intense the playoffs are and how much faster things happen in the playoffs, it’s pretty scary when you’ve never experienced it.”
But Niederreiter noticed one important thing as he sat in his stall Thursday night before the opener against the St.