The Minnesota Wild finally won a hockey game 3-2 against the San Jose Sharks on Tuesday, bringing to an end the team’s longest losing skid of the year and the longest of Bruce Boudreau’s NHL coaching career at five games. In fact, the entire month of March has been a rough go with the Wild holding a 3-8 record over those 11 games. As Wild fans and Hockey Wilderness readers know, this team has seen more than its fair share of late-season swoons, so many were expecting more of the same.
But digging into the numbers shows that things aren’t really too bad for the local team.