Hockey Wilderness · May 3, 2022
Recap: Poor special teams earn Wild loss in Game 1
Photo by David Berding/Getty ImagesI can’t in good conscience start this recap with “it’s the freakin’ ‘yoffs, baby!!!!!!” like I had penned at the top at the beginning of the evening. This was not a fun edge of my seat game. By the end of the third, I was in a downright grumpy mood.
Storylines of the game? St. Louis Blues goaltender Ville Husso was so solid, and Evason will need to watch tons of tape to put a crack in that wall, and special teams were a disaster. Something has to click or change for Game 2. I don’t think the series is over, I firmly believe the Minnesota Wild have shown before they have what it takes to rally, but it was a bit of a bummer beginning.