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The Minnesota Wild Respond To The Challenge

04/19/2016 at 4:58am EDT

from Michael Russo of the StarTribune,

For the seventh time in its past eight playoff series, the Wild won a Game 3, but tonight was in the most unexpected fashion possible.

When you give up two goals 4:10 in, the old cliché said in locker rooms is, “There was still a lot of hockey left.”

But that’s easier said than done when you’ve lost seven in a row, are fragile and your home fans are restless and ticked the way the season has gone pear shaped with no wins in the month of April.

However, it was impressive the way the fans never turned on the Wild tonight. Maybe it was because the start – being scored on 26 seconds in and again less than four minutes later on Patrick Sharp’s second goal -- was so stunning. But the Wild slowly got its game together and then got a huge momentum-turning goal by Chris Porter in the waning seconds of the period.

The Wild was fast, physical and defensively hounded the puck.

It came to light after the game that John Torchetti, who visibly challenged Mikko Koivu on the ice this morning, then challenged a “few of us” in the locker room during the first intermission.

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Below, watch the highlights of the 5-3 Minnesota win over the Dallas Stars...

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