Lightning drop entertaining 5-4 game to Wild

Photo by Scott Audette/NHLI via Getty ImagesOn a night when the Tampa Bay Lightning threw things back to the 1990s with a throwback soundtrack, the two teams had there own offensive tribute to early 90s hockey by combining for nine goals. Unfortunately it was Minnesota with the extra goal as they won their fifth game in a row, 5-4.

First Period

We all had five goals being scored in the first period, right? Because that’s exactly what this match-up produced. Minnesota controlled the play early, but couldn’t really direct anything dangerous at Andrei Vasilevskiy.

Just after Lightning commentator Brian Engblom talked about the Wild as a grind-it-out team that does not not like to score on the…