I wasn’t really feeling this recap. I was about as uninspired to write as the Wild were in the game in which they...um...played? Spectated? Existed? Yeah, it was about as ugly as the Blues game. Minnesota could not get the second chances it needed to beat a very good netminder in Andrei Vasilevskiy. Victor Hedman’s game winner in the first period stood tall as Nikita Kucherov scored his 29th and 30th goals of the season.
The story? Tampa Bay won the game, but lost three key players. Vladislav Namestnikov got twisted up with Zach Parise landing on his legs as they both went into the boards.