3-1. It’s a deficit in a playoff series that isn’t often recovered from. One club has fully asserted themselves and simply found ways to win, while the other searches for answers and tries to find some way to stay alive in the race for the Stanley Cup.
Entering the 2002-03 season, it was a feat that had only been accomplished 16 times in the vast history of the NHL.
At that time, the Minnesota Wild’s history as a franchise was anything but vast, as it was only their third year of existence in Minnesota, and up to that point, the franchise had yet to make a playoff appearance or even hold a record above .