A 3-0 playoff series hole used to seem insurmountable.
But two teams since 2010 have climbed that hill -- the 2010 Philadelphia Flyers and the 2014 Los Angeles Kings, both of whom advanced to the Stanley Cup finals.
Still, recovering from that type of deficit isn't common and it isn't likely, especially against Chicago, one of the NHL's most effective teams at putting an opponent away when ahead in a series.
So rather than look at the gargantuan task of winning four straight against a team they couldn't score against Tuesday night, the Wild are reverting to one of the oldest cliches in the book and taking their deficit on one game at a time.