With still another day until the Wild head to Washington and the NCHC Frozen Faceoff, the NHL provided us with a fun diversion to noodle over: the 2018-2019 NHL Players Poll.
Most of the questions and answers were unsurprising. Connor McDavid and Sidney Crosby are really good, and other players think so. Alex Ovechkin has a really hard shot. Brad Marchand is kind of a dink (for lack of a better, less SFW word). However, there was one question that earned the Wild an accolade, or rather, the Wild’s hockey ops staff.