4 Reasons The Wild Are Facing Elimination
It wasn't supposed to be like this in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the Minnesota Wild.
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It wasn't supposed to be like this in the Stanley Cup Playoffs for the Minnesota Wild.
Boudreau is well aware of his reputation -- do well in the regular season, falter in the postseason. He's also well aware that at this juncture there's not a whole lot he can do about it, except keep trying hard.
The Minnesota Wild, who had a 12-game winning streak this season, are down 0-3 to the surprising St. Louis Blues while Cup favorites Chicago and Washington have been plunged into challenging first-round series of their own.
Former NHL coach Barry Melrose had a saying during the Stanley Cup Playoffs that goes, "This time of year your best players have to be your best players."
The Minnesota Wild are facing elimination in the NHL Playoffs after losing Game 3 at St. Louis 3-1 on Sunday.
Jared Spurgeon is experienced enough in the postseason to know it's different this time of year.
After losing Game One to the St. Louis Blues, the belief was that if the Minnesota Wild plays like they did on Wednesday, they'll win this series in six games.
Jaden Schwartz scored with 2:27 remaining and the Blues beat the Wild 2-1, giving St. Louis a 2-0 lead in the first-round series.
Minnesota is looking to even the series at one game a piece before heading to St. Louis.
For nearly 60 minutes, Jake Allen looked impenetrable. The St. Louis net minder turned away all 43 shots that he had faced in the game and was well on his way to giving the Blues a 1-0 lead in the series.
Joel Edmundson scored for St. Louis at 17:48 of overtime after Zach Parise tied the game for the Wild with 22.7 seconds left in regulation.
Everyone knew this moment would come, ever since Mike Yeo stepped in to take over the head coaching duties with the Blues.
With several hours before face off, we found dozens of fans gearing up at the Hockey Lodge. Excitement for the first game of the first round of playoffs is in full force.
The Wild have now made the Stanley Cup Playoffs for five straight seasons.
The outlook for the Minnesota Wild in the Stanley Cup Playoffs isn't good, if you're asking the team at FiveThirtyEight.
Yeo and his new team pitted against his previous charges in one of the most intriguing pairings of the NHL postseason that opens on Wednesday night.
The Stanley Cup Playoffs are set to get underway Wednesday night, and the opponent for the Minnesota Wild will be a familiar one.
There is a mostly unspoken undertone in the Wild's camp, that these veterans might not have many years to have this good of chance to win a Stanley Cup.
It's their fifth straight trip to the postseason, but for the first time in recent memory, it feels like a year the Wild could make a run to the Stanley Cup.
The rest of the West is about to find out if it measures up. Here's what to watch in the four first-round series beginning this week.
Of course. Of course the Minnesota Wild's first round playoff opponent is the St. Louis Blues, coached by none other than Mike Yeo, who was Minnesota's coach just 14 months ago.
The Minnesota Wild finished their regular season Saturday night, and on Sunday evening the playoff schedule was announced.
Darcy Kuemper stopped 20 shots, Martin Hanzal scored in his return to the desert and the Minnesota Wild set a franchise record with their 49th win by beating the Arizona Coyotes 3-1 on Saturday night.
With much of Minnesota settled in at a lake, teeing things up at a golf course or prepping the backyard grill, the Wild offices were busier than usual for a holiday morning on July 4, 2012.
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