The Minnesota Wild are turning into everyone’s favorite team to watch. I’m being serious, stop laughing.
To open up this season that was always going to be weird, the Wild have spurned away easy victories and have instead gone the long way around to make seemingly impossible comebacks. Down by two goals heading into the third period of both matches, they were able to force overtime twice and then score the game-winner in that extra period.
In a normal season, these victories that make you feel like you’re riding a translucent cloud through a forest of hockey sticks and puck gumdrops, might be sprinkled throughout the 82 games, being an extremely rare occurrence.