Recap: Wild take down Golden Knights 6-5 in comeback classic

Photo by Bruce Kluckhohn/NHLI via Getty ImagesThis team.

Nothing else like it.

For the second time in two games, the Minnesota Wild found themselves down in the dying minutes of the third period.

For the second time in two games, they found themselves improbably victorious as well.

Maybe it’s in poor taste to even doubt this team at this point.

It was a barnburner of a start to another heated affair against the Vegas Golden Knights, with Joel Eriksson Ek drawing first blood off the rush:

But hockey is a cruel mistress, and if you have the gall to use your coach’s challenge on a potential goal to check for goalie interference, it can take everything away from you. That is precisely what Dean…