Head coach Bruce Boudreau couldn’t stand pat as his Minnesota Wild squad looked listless through the first two games of the season. Slow starts in both games, an absence of goal scoring, and a lot of hand-wringing about the highest paid players on the team not showing up made for a tenuous start to the season. In come the line changes. Boudreau and company put Joel Eriksson Ek with Eric Staal and Jason Zucker. Mikko Koivu centered a line of Zach Parise and Mikael Granlund. Charlie Coyle got a bump from Nino Niederreiter on his line with rookie center Jordan Greenway.
Zucker provides spark, Wild beat Blackhawks in overtime 4-3
