The Minnesota Wild’s 2022-23 season was supposed to start differently. It was going to be the year that the Wild might take all of this sustained regular season success and put it into a playoff series win. It was going to be the year that we saw the new core led by Matt Boldy, Marco Rossi, Calen Addison, and their young friends, take full control of the team and lift the existing key players to new heights. On paper, everything looked right. Good legendary goaltender, the same blue line with a new added spark, and the same forward lines that gave Minnesota its best season in franchise history last year with a couple new and exciting additions.
Zuccarello: ‘We play defense like we’re a fucking junior team’
