Jewels From The Crown · Oct 19, 2016
Preview, Game Day #3: Kings @ Wild
Game Day #3: Los Angeles Kings @ Minnesota Wild
What Kings fans will be watching for: A WIN.
More specificially: can an infusion of Tom Gilbert, Nic Dowd, and Tanner Pearson get LA on the right track? The offense and defense aren't sputtering as badly as they did during last year's season-opening skid, but this still a team struggling to find its form.
What Wild fans will be watching for: Backup goaltender Darcy Kuemper makes his season debut. As Hockey Wilderness points out, he had a pretty crappy second half; if the Wild want Devan Dubnyk to play fewer than 67 games this season, they need more of what Kuemper did in the first half.