Frederick Gaudreau and Kevin Fiala have been joined at the hip since the drop of the puck for this Minnesota Wild season. It was a pairing that head coach Dean Evason conjured up almost immediately and has stuck with through a lot of uncertainty and doubts, but the team is reaping the rewards from it now.
On Thursday, as the team visited the Dallas Stars, it was a two-man show. No other player produced anything — nothing came to fruition unless it was off either one of Fiala’s or Gaudreau’s sticks.
With the help of tertiary linemate Matt Boldy on the first goal of the game to get things rolling in Texas, Gaudreau was able to quickly set up Fiala for a net-front tap-in just minutes into the game.