I've professed my love for Caleb Burhans' music before, right? Another piece composed by him that I listen to a lot.
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(3 votes, average: 8.33 out of 10)Loading... (3 votes, average: 8.00 out of 10)Loading... (4 votes, average: 9.00 out of 10)Loading... The Wild are on the road again! Because of course they are. After this road trip, the Wild will have played 13 of their first 18 games on the road. But relief is coming? They have to play 7 of their next 12 away from home, which feels at least a little bit more even.
As always, we need to point out how terrible the Wild have been on the road (Tuesday's game in Anaheim notwithstanding).
Before this road trip:
So, naturally, they got behind against Anaheim and then calmly ripped off three third period goals to come from behind and win 4-2.
The story of this season so far is just how true both of those statements can be at the same time.
The remainder of this road trip includes the only two teams in the conference with worse records than Minnesota (San Jose and Los Angeles). Minnesota's record against teams currently below them in the standings sits at 2-0 (wins over Ottawa and Los Angeles).
Will this translate into wins? See the two bulleted points above and remember that they are both true and we'll never know which will be more true on any given night with this team.
Second verse, same as the first.
The Wild have been ... better at home, maybe even competent.
Kind of hard to make sense of this team that's obviously better than its 1-8 road record, but probably not as good as they have looked at home.
Hopefully that dichotomy continues for one more game tonight before their 4 game road trip.
Game 12 Recap:
I'm trying to think of the worst possible losses a team could have in October and honestly this feels like it's right up there. https://t.co/fWCrUmgssc
— Down Goes Brown (@DownGoesBrown) October 30, 2019
Assuming the Wild only quit playing hockey for that 1 period last night and not forever... Their road trip continues tonight as they face the defending Cup champion Blues.
The Blues (6-3-3) are winning half their games and losing half of their losses in overtime or the shootout, so they've racked up some points.
It's kind of odd that the Wild haven't had an overtime game yet. I'm calling it to happen tonight.
Here's a fun game -- look at the NHL leaderboard and calculate how many Wild players you'd have to add together to lead the league in offensive categories....
| Points Leader | Points | Wild Players |
| Pastrnak | 24 | Staal (8) Zucker (7) Hunt (7) Zuccarello (2) |
| Goals Leader | Goals | Wild Players |
| Pastrnak | 12 | Staal (4) Zucker (4) Hunt (4) Zuccarello (0) |
| Assists Leader | Assists | Wild Players |
| McDavid | 16 | Dumba (5) Greenway (5) Staal (4) Zuccarello (2) |
Yeah - offense is not a strong point.
This game is on NBCSN, if you don't have anything else to watch tonight...
