Your Minnesota Wild entered the night looking to kick the habit of losing after dropping 3-straight games last week. Trying to break the tide on the road, with a late start, this is no easy task. Fortunately for the Wild the Vancouver Canucks were the draw tonight. The Canucks have a lot of nice pieces in place but have struggled to put everything together this season, and their penalty kill woes are well documented, and would be amplified tonight.
The Wild and Canucks spent much of the early parts of the first period exchanging chances on either end of the ice.