The Minnesota Wild will take the ice for game 2 of their 5 game road trip tonight, as they invade the Shark Tank in San Jose. In a game that has many storylines to it, the Wild will attempt to stretch their current league-best 5 game winning streak.
Minnesota fans were very excited this summer when it was announced that their team had made a few trades with San Jose and received Dany Heatley and Devin Setoguchi. This will be their first trip back to California to take on their former team, and, in the case of Setoguchi, the one that drafted him and had been the only organization he had ever known.
While he has not had the greatest stats against the Sharks in his career, it appears that Niklas Backstrom will be in net again tonight after a great 41 save shutout performance against the Calgary Flames on Tuesday night. Backstrom was chosen over Josh Harding, who was the NHL’s First Star of the Week. Minnesota forward Cal Clutterbuck, who did not play Tuesday due to an upper...
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