The Minnesota Wild missed the playoffs this past season, snapping their streak of six straight seasons of making postseason play. At the beginning of the season it appeared the Wild were on track to making the playoffs for a seventh straight season. They had a record of 17-13-2 and then defenseman, Matt Dumba suffered a ruptured pectoral muscle. That’s when the train came off the tracks for the Wild. WIth Dumba sidelined the Wild stumbled and went 20-23-7 the rest of the way.
“Look at what happened when he got injured,” Lake Martin, a contributor for Gone Puck Wild said.