The Wild came into Saturday’s game against the Sharks with a chance to clinch a playoff spot and extend their winning streak to seven games, and it didn’t take very long at all for the Wild to score the first goal of the game.
Just 19 seconds after the puck had dropped, Ryan Suter skated down the left shot of the ice and threw a wrist shot on net that beat Martin Jones on the glove side to make it 1-0 Minnesota.
The Wild would extend their lead to 2-0 when Joel Eriksson Ek made a nice pass to Marcus Foligno who tapped it past Jones and into the net to give the Wild a two-goal lead.