The Minnesota Wild cruised in their final tuneup before the playoffs, getting 24 saves from Niklas Backstrom in a 5-1 victory over the St. Louis Blues on Saturday night.
Wyatt Smith had two goals, and Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Branko Radivojevic and Wes Walz also scored for the Wild, who will meet Anaheim in the first round of the playoffs next week.
Backstrom was coming off consecutive shutouts of Edmonton, but the Blues broke Minnesota's franchise-record scoreless streak at 169 minutes, 20 seconds when Peter Sejna beat the Finnish goalie between the pads with a shallow angle shot in the second period.
Walz came right back on a breakaway, taking a pretty backhand feed from Marian Gaborik and deking Curtis Sanford for a 3-1 lead.
The Blues end the season with a record of 34-35-13, with a total of 81 points and finishing in 10th in the Western Conference standings.
Here are highlights of the game:
5 comments:
Next year.
Hopefully next year will be better.
I am sure we will step it up next year.
I am telling everyone that next year, this team will be younger, faster and we will have hit the free-agent market to get some scorers and more depth. Bleed Blue Baby!
Too bad...next year will be better for sure.
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