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A Little Bit Of Everything With The Minnesota Wild

04/25/2016 at 8:45am EDT

from Tom Powers of the Pioneer Press,

It’s simply confounding.

The Wild are great, good, bad and awful – all in one series. All in one game! Devan Dubnyk is terrific. Devan Dubnyk is terrible. The team is in good shape. The team is a mess.

Where is this franchise, anyway? One thing we know for sure is that the Wild are tremendous at lowering expectations. For 82 regular season games they hammer at our sensibilities. Every season is supposed to be the one in which they take the next step. Every season they squeak into the playoffs. And then folks around here get chills when they sneak in.

Sunday was a perfect example of how the Wild operate. After falling behind 4-0, they staged a stirring comeback in the third period only to lose 5-4. They received a huge ovation as the buzzer sounded. People were tickled. Great effort, great comeback. And everyone conveniently forgets that they fell behind 4-0 to begin with.

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