When asked about his team’s recent success after Sunday’s 3-2 win over the Blackhawks, Minnesota Wild Head Coach Bruce Boudreau explained that “They just refuse to lose at this stage, and I hope we can continue to have that feeling for the rest of the season.”
That refusal to lose was huge this weekend as the Wild faced an uphill climb to reach the top of the Central Division having to win back-to-back road games, but in the end powered through two huge wins in Dallas and Chicago. Under normal circumstances it would be completely acceptable to walk away with only one win in those two games, but the Wild didn’t want to settle for acceptable they wanted to win both games and they did.