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Perlini looped below the face-off circle to Dubnyk’s left and somehow, from a terrible angle and in close proximity of the 6’6” netminder, managed to find a space exactly the size of the puck over Dubnyk’s shoulder. Minutes later, as Zucker struggled to pull up his proverbial pants (to be clear, he didn’t actually take his pants off), and with Greg Pateryn serving a very soft slashing minor, Brendan Perlini got the Coyotes on the board first at the 13:12 mark. If this were golf, Zucker would have had to play his next shot with his pants around his ankles.

With nine minutes remaining, Eric Staal set up Jason Zucker with a no-doubter wide open net that Zucker shanked into the trees.

It definitely should have taken the lead a couple times in that window, but missed some golden opportunities. The passing and puck control was anything but crisp, but despite the sloppiness, Minnesota actually had its best start of the season Tuesday, really dominating the play in the first half of the frame. To the Wild’s credit, they fought through all of those challenges and overcame another sloppy first period to finally get themselves back in the win column for just the second time this season. The team got away with it this time, but that’s certainly not the first time this has happened in the past few seasons, so hopefully one of these times they will learn that an additional forward is a good thing to have hanging around.Īnyway, combine all the weirdness with the fact that the Wild were on the second of back-to-back games with travel, and this one had the makings for a huge collapse in the third. Just as an aside, the Wild are always right up against the salary cap, which I get, but the decision not to recall a forward with Eriksson Ek on the shelf really should have come back to bite Minnesota. Nate Prosser dressed as a seventh defenseman, so the Wild skated eleven forwards and eventually went down to ten when Matt Hendricks left at the end of the first period with a leg injury. Tuesday was a weird night for Minnesota, even from before the game, because with Mikko Koivu at the hospital to witness the birth of his third child (we really need to start timing these out a little better), and Joel Eriksson Ek out with a lower body injury, Bruce Boudreau was forced to get creative. Well, it wasn’t exactly pretty, but Devan Dubnyk continued his run of exceptional play to start the season, stopping 31 of 32 shots, and the Wild found just enough offense to send the struggling Coyotes home to the desert licking their wounds.