Heading into Thursday’s game against the Philadelphia Flyers, the Wild have won just five times in the last 13 games since the league mandated bye-week because of the World Cup of Hockey. An odd stretch of losing in a season filled with much more winning for the Minnesota Wild. It’s a negative trend that even after a victory against the San Jose Sharks - a game in which the Wild seemed to right a lot of the wrong that has plagued them, the head coach was still reluctant to call them “back.
Can we put to bed this notion that the Hanzal trade messed with the Wild’s team chemistry?
