The floundering Nashville Predators’ northern road trip continues tonight, as they face the foundering Minnesota Wild at the Xcel Energy Center. For large stretches of this season, the Preds and the Wild have been the Spider-Man pointing at Spider-Man .gif, and tonight continues the trend.
The Minnesota Wild
Less than three weeks ago, the Wild had a better-than-even chance of making the playoffs. Things were going well. Their pair of shootout losses to the Preds were the only two blips in an eight-game point streak. They followed up those shootout losses and capped the point streak by shutting out the Tampa Bay Lightning in Tampa, winning 3-0 on a Jason Zucker hat trick.