Last night I was only able to watch the first period of the Minnesota Wild road game against the Boston Bruins. When I turned the game off, the score was still 0 - 0. The Wild led in the shots on goal category by a slim margin and there hadn’t been much in the way of significant scoring chances. Most nights, that would be a fairly typical, albeit low-event, hockey game. Last night, however, was not a typical hockey game.
With all due respect to the Bruins, last night the Wild faced an opponent ripe to take a bad loss.