I like to imagine there's a bulletin board in the Wild locker room that reads something like this: "1. Get home-ice. 2. Don't play Chicago. 3. Profit."
There most certainly is not -- at least not the second part -- but if Mike Yeo checked in with me for advice, that's probably what I'd tell him (you may be surprised to learn that he has not).
How does the rest of the hockey world see it? We checked up on a smattering of NHL prognosticators to see where they stand on the Wild heading into the opener:
ESPN:
The Wild came in No.