It wasn’t necessarily pretty, especially with Devan Dubnyk leaving the game after the first period with an injury, but the Minnesota Wild manage, once again, to win in extra hockey. This time it was in the shootout, with key goals coming from known shootout specialist Chris Stewart scoring in the second round and Mikael Granlund bringing it home in the fifth. Alex Stalock, playing in relief, scrambled his way to a well-deserved win.
I’ll confess that when I saw Stewie take the ice in the shootout, I was practically yelling at the screen that Bruce Boudreau or John Anderson or whoever made that call should be checked for head trauma.