5 Things We Learned from the Wild’s New York Road Trip

Hey, that road trip wasn’t all bad! It wasn’t all good, but it wasn’t all bad!

The Wild have completed a brief two-game swing through the New York metropolitan area with a 4-2 victory over the lowly New Jersey Devils, followed by a disappointing 2-1 loss to the impressively high-flying and first-place-in-the-Metropolitan-Division New York Islanders.

With the unusual nature of back-to-back day games—and the very minimal time that a story regarding the Saturday game alone would have had to breathe—I opted to conjoin the Saturday and Sunday versions of “3 Things We Learned” into one “5 Things We Learned” post, lumping together the whole two-game trip.

Here’s what we learned from the Wild’s visit…