Of course, we all know that limiting the shots on net hugely reduces the chance that a shot will go in. If you’re not shooting, Devan Dubnyk or Alex Stalock in the Minnesota Wild net isn’t busy!
During the road-trip, across their seven games, the Minnesota Wild had the tenth lowest total in the league for shots against. Of the teams doing better than them, only the Calgary Flames played the same amount of games in that period; everyone else played less in that time.
Only Columbus, Dallas and Ottawa played more than seven games in that period, so it’s very much fair to say that the statistics aren’t just being cherry-picked to suit the narrative; the statistics actually point to a very strong set of defensive games.