By Bryan Reynolds -
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We'll keep this short tonight. Long day for Wild fans who stayed up for this one. 9:30 PM start, midnight finish, and all of that to watch their favorite team get worked pretty well by the Sharks.
It would be difficult to say the Wild played well, but they certainly have played worse. Save for the very Martin Skoula-esque play that led to the first goal, the Wild played a decent enough game, they just flat out got out played. The Sharks are a very, very good hockey team, so if any of you enjoy moral victories, maybe coming out having not lost 8-1 is a moral victory.
I'm not much for moral victories. The Wild did look flat for large stretches of the game, almost as though they could sense the system not working and simply giving up. The passes were not sharp, and the Wild fell back into making the stupid little mistakes that cost them so dear.
As mentioned above, we won't go into too much depth. The Wild got out played. We'll see how the coach and the players feel about it, but to me, being beat by the Sharks certainly isn't anything to be ashamed of. Ugly second period, but we're used to those in Minnesota, right? Right.
Another day off, maybe some rest, maybe some time to think about things a bit. We'll talk more tomorrow.
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