By Nathan Eide -
So, tonight's game. Well, Bryan's going to cover the ins and outs of the flow of play, so I'll get to the nitty-gritty. Tonight, the Wild once again proved that they can work really hard and get the ugly goals and counter-attack when they want to. The problem is either they don't have the personnel to do so for 60 minutes (possible), don't have the top-end talent to make the most of the breaks they are given (likely) or simply aren't motivated to work their butts off every shift (sad, but it's looking like this is the likely candidate). In stretches, this team can control a game, but they simply haven't shown that they can do it for an entire game.
On that major ...
In case you didn't hear, the league is cracking down on contact to the head. Example:
Bryan's take:
After the Brown hit, the Wild did exactly the opposite of what would be expected. Rather than rallying and putting a new found head of steam into the game, they simply went into their shell, rode out the final 30 minutes, went to overtime, rode that out as well, and went to a shootout.
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