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    Post by jedi17 Mon 06 Mar 2017, 6:19 pm

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    March 6, 2017, 5:14 PM ET [2 Comments]
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    Wild win last night catapulted them back into first place one point ahead of the Blackhawks. Bruce Boudreau called last night’s effort “possibly the Wild’s best defensive game of the season” to date. 

    That is great to hear and see as the Wild ride will require many more nights like that, in order for them to finish atop the standings in the Central Division as well as the Western Conference. 
    Boudreau had the full complement of his four lines for the first time since the team returned from their bye week. Getting the new additions Martin Hanzal and Ryan White into the lineup right away may not have been the optimal plan when they were acquired a week ago Sunday, but with the mumps striking the club, taking Zach Parise and Jason Pominville out of the lineup it turned into necessity.

    The road to the playoffs is a marathon, and the journey of the Stanley Cup playoffs is rocky to say the least. The fact that the Wild have iced so many different lineups and line combinations will only serve them well as the team plays it’s final 19 games in 33 days.

    The injuries and illnesses that have felled Parise this season, have been frustrating from a fan’s perspective and I am sure from Zach’s own perspective as well. But here is a slant that I think the time off will only be a blessing for Parise as the wear and tear of an 82 game season can takes it’s toll on players, especially those who play the game with as much intensity and vigor as Parise does.

    The moves that Chuck Fletcher made bringing in White and Hanzal have made the Wild so much bigger, stronger, deeper, and harder to play against. That depth will be tested down the stretch and you can guarantee that when Jordan Schroeder and Tyler Graovac get their next opportunity to crack the Wild lineup, they will do everything in their power to show they belong there.

    The Wild depth on the blueline, will be called upon as Christian Folin will be sidelined for a minimum of three weeks with what is being called an upper body injury. It appeared to be an injury to his right arm or wrist after taking a hit from the Sharks, Kevin Labanc, then sliding awkwardly into the back boards early in last night’s game. Gustov Olofsson will likely get the call to replace Folin.

    Competition breeds excellence and when players are competing for their ice time and for the roles in the lineup that can only be a good thing. Boudreau and his staff have created a culture of healthy competition up and down the Wild lineup. That healthy competition has created a strong locker room with each player coming to work with the same single focus of doing what is best for this Wild team.

    That culture had been missing over the past few seasons in the State of Hockey. It took a fresh voice and an open competition for ice time to bring that out in the 2016-17 Minnesota Wild.

    I have written in this blog many times over the past two seasons how the margin between winning and losing in pro sports is very thin. How a team gets along off the ice is equally as important to how it performs on the ice, because the two are inter-related.

    The Wild had the talent to compete at a higher level in each of the last two seasons, at the 
    very minimum. But the room was not unified and the healthy competition within the team was not at all evident. There was a lack of trust between coach and certain players, that created an imbalance amongst the collective unit. That ultimately was the undoing of former Wild coach Mike Yeo, and led to the lack of overall team success in the playoffs.

    Nothing is etched in stone and there are no guarantees, but the outlook for this year’s Wild team is a whole lot more optimistic than in any of the years past. 
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