Oh hey! The Wild can play defense too! Bruce Boudreau dug deep into his bag of tricks and pulled out a defensively structured team, which has given up a total of two goals in its past two games. The team has run into a couple of solid goaltending performances from Martin Jones and Sergei Bobrovsky, which has limited Minnesota to just three goals for (including an empty netter) and weirdly only one win, but in the grand scheme of things, this is an extremely sustainable brand of hockey for the Wild to suddenly be displaying.
It’s refreshing to see that this year’s version of the Wild can get a lead heading into the third period, and instead of sitting back and praying that Devan Dubnyk can hold on until the final horn sounds, it’s willing to keep its foot on the gas and continue to attack.