ST. LOUIS - Ninety minutes before the opening faceoff, a number of Wild fans that made the trek down to St. Louis began Dooooooooo’ing and chanting “Let’s Go Dubnyk.”
Perhaps they figured at some point in this hard-fought, tight-checking series between the Wild and St. Louis Blues that Devan Dubnyk would have to steal a game.
The Wild goaltender did just that Friday night.
As the Blues peppered the Wild in the first half of the first period, Dubnyk supplied the security blanket until the Wild got comfy in the second. The Wild ultimately scored on back-to-back shots by Nino Niederreiter and Mikko Koivu to come from behind and snatch a 4-1 victory for its first 3-2 series’ lead in franchise history.