It was better. The effort level, that is. The Wild surely showed some life, especially early in the first period. However, in a game that the Wild should have had a stranglehold on, Devan Dubnyk and the Wild allowed the Islanders to hang around. Luke Kunin and Zack Mitchell scored their first career goals as the Wild killed off all five Islander power plays and scored two short-handed goals to win.
Bear with me, there’s a lot of goals to breakdown.
Minnesota got off to a much better start than what they showed in their lifeless shutout loss to the Canucks two nights ago.