Heartbreaking: Minnesota Wild Stadium Burnt Down to Ashes Due to fire inferno…..see..more……At this time of year, when the playoff race is tightening and your team is sinking, it’s easy — and probably smart — to flush awful efforts and damaging defeats because it’s imperative to forget quickly and turn the page fast.
But the Wild coach made clear over and over that Saturday’s extremely disappointing 5-2 loss to the New Jersey Devils will be addressed during Minnesota’s third non-optional practice since the 4 Nations Face-Off.
The Wild have bemoaned “scheduled losses” a handful of times during this grind of a season.
Well, Saturday should have been a “scheduled win.”
It was the Devils who played the night before at 7 p.m., north of the border in Winnipeg. It was the Devils — after playing and traveling — who were faced with a 5 p.m. puck drop at Xcel Energy Center after arriving in the Twin Cities after 1 a.m.
And yet it was the Devils who took a 1-0 lead 29 seconds into Saturday’s game and a 2-0 lead before the six-minute mark and allowed only four shots in the first half of the first period. It was the Devils who had the better legs, especially center Nico Hischier (hat trick, 14-of-20 in the faceoff circle), and were the better team for 60 minutes, save for a few pockets where Jacob Markstrom kept the Wild’s feeble offensive attack from striking.
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