Wild Defeats Canucks in Bizarre High-Scoring Game

This was the most bizarre hockey game I have ever seen in my entire life. The Vancouver Canucks — who are still first in the NHL, mind you — gave up seven goals in the third period to the Minnesota Wild . Add in the Wild scoring with 33 seconds left in the second period and that’s eight goals against in 20-and-a-half minutes. That turned a 5-2 for the Canucks into a 10-7 loss — their first regulation loss of the season when going into the third period with a lead.

That 10-7 score is straight out of the eighties, back when goaltenders wore leather sacks stuffed with bunched-up newspapers for pads. The three goaltenders — two from the Wild and one Canuck — combined for a .694 save percentage. Three players — two from the Wild and one Canuck — had hat tricks. But it wasn’t just that this was a high-scoring game with a ludicrous number of goals in the third period — it was how those goals were scored. Four of the Wild’s ten goals came on the power play, with three of those four scored on two-man advantage

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