Twin Cities.com · May 8, 2015
Tom Powers: Wild playoff prowess just a fantasy - as usual
A clearly upset Zach Parise rests on the boards after the Wild's 4-3 loss to Chicago in Game 4 of the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul on Thursday, May 7, 2015. (Pioneer Press: John Autey) It was all just an illusion.
The Wild really weren't the team that was going carry Minnesota into the land of champions. They weren't the chosen ones ending the decades-long drought of disappointments, after all. It was just a big tease. The ferocious regular-season comeback, the first-round triumph ... merely preludes to the ultimate frustration. As usual.