Looking back at other 3-0 Wild season starts

Photo by Scott A. Schneider/Getty ImagesMinnesota Wild fans are riding high on the team’s first three-game winning streak to start a season in six years - and they absolutely should be. But should the exuberance be encouraged or tempered? After all, the Wild have been here before...

Let’s take a look back at the best starts to a season and how the team ended up after a similar start...

2006-07 (48-26-8)

The start of the 06-07 season was the best in Wild history as the team took their first six games and nine of their first ten. Led by new acquisitions Pavol Demitra at forward and Niklas Backstrom in net, Minnesota finally made it back to the promised land of the playoffs for the first time…