In all honesty, I'm not really quite sure where most of y'all are from. So maybe where you're from hockey isn't a big deal. Or maybe it is & your team is out of the playoffs already. Or maybe it is but hockey just isn't your thing. Well where I come from (originally anyway) hockey is a great deal. We're "The State of Hockey" for crying out loud. The funny thing about that though (or should I say funny THINGS) is a) we didn't even get a pro team until 1967...50 years after the NHL started. b) after the Northstars got sold to Dallas (1993) we didn't have a hockey team for the better part of a decade until we got the Wild (2000)
This was a political ad for the govenor's race one year btw...
c) Neither the Northstars nor the Wild have ever won a Stanley Cup. (The Northstars won conference champs twice & division champs twice and The Wild have won division champs once).
Yet here we are. The Wild got into the playoffs as a wild card, beat the Avalanche 4-3 in a 7 game series, & will be playing game 6 in round 2 against the Blackhawks (who have won the Stanley cup 5 times btw including last year). Tonight's game is it. It's 2-3 right now. If the Hawks win that's 4 wins & we're out. Luckily it's in Minnesota which has helped us every single time thus far in the playoffs.
So...
Go Wild
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