It’s been four months and 27 days since either the Minnesota Wild or Vancouver Canucks played meaningful hockey. But after Game 1, you wouldn’t know the Wild had any layoff at all, scoring early and holding on late to defeat Vancouver 3-0 in Game 1 of their play-in series.
For anyone who thought teams would take a while to get back into the swing of things, it took only one minute and 19 seconds for the blood to boil, as Marcus Foligno and Micheal Ferland threw hands off an early faceoff.