Make sure you watch very intently tonight, Wilderness, because this is the last you’ll get to see of the Green ‘n’ Wheats for a whopping NINE days. With bye weeks now altered in the NHL, every team has its CBA-mandated five-day break either leading into or immediately following the All-Star weekend, so the hockey world will be relatively quiet over the next couple of weeks (save for the festivities in San Jose, of course).
As the Wild head into their super long break, they get one more big… BIG... test before their players jet off to various sunny and perhaps even tropical locales to lick their wounds and get ready for the stretch run.