Wilderness Walk: Happy Birthday Spurg Edition

Brace Hemmelgarn-USA TODAY SportsGood morning. I’m not going to talk about either of the games the Wild played this weekend. If you missed out, there are recaps, and really, you didn’t miss much. Instead I thought we’d focus this walk on something lovely: today is Jared Spurgeon’s twenty-sixth birthday. Happy Birthday Spurg!

I was going to write a poem about how great Jared Spurgeon is, but then I sat down to write and remembered that a) rhyming is hard, b) not rhyming in a convincing manner is harder, c) this is a hockey blog, and d) writing a poem would be a terrible idea. But that’s the kind of greatness we’re talking about here: Jared Spurgeon is great enough to make me want to write…