The regulation time of a NHL hockey game is three twenty-minute periods. The traditional wisdom is that the best way to win a hockey game is to come out and get the lead early after that first twenty minutes. The idea being that you force a team into the harder position of playing from behind early, and then you can play an easier more defensive game that can keep your opponent from gathering momentum.
The Minnesota Wild seem to be ignoring this strategy. Instead the Wild have decided to turn on their scoring in the second period. Whether it’s intentional or not the Wild through their first seven games have only scored 2 goals in the first period and 15 goals in the second period.