Here are your Minnesota Wild GIFs from last night’s bummer.
Thomas Vanek opened up the scoring in the first period, knocking in a one-timer from Mikael Granlund.
While the Wild were still up 1-0, Nate Prosser took a roughing penalty for Andrew Shaw missing a check. Shaw was pretty mad at Prosser about it afterward. Wild fans are not made about this call. It did not result in a goal, so this bad call flies and makes a good GIF.
Kris Versteeg had a tough night in front of the net. He got blown up a couple of times while digging for the puck. Brett Sutter started off the trend of pushing Versteeg around here. Need to get a GIF of Sutter skating around afterward cleaning his visor like nothing happened. That’s how he got the nickname The Cucumber. Brett The Cucumber Sutter.
Shortly after that Chicago took control of the game during a very, very weak second period for the Wild. (Really, really bad. It was terrible. Terrible.) Brent Seabrook opened the scoring for Chicago. Justin Falk leaps out of the way here too. I understand that he wanted Niklas Backstrom to be able to see the puck, but block a shot. After this Falk played another four minutes in the game, roughly. He’d played 4:14 at that point and this goal was scored about half way through the second. So, there wasn’t much of a cut in ice time. Nino, played just over a minute of ice time after scoring a goal in the third period. Just a note. Just leaving it there for you.
Then Jonathan Toews fed Marian Hossa to put Chicago up 2-1.
Chicago would go up 3-1 after Christian Folin got his pocket picked in the slot. Into the third, it’s 3-1 and Nino Niederreiter gets tripped on a breakaway by Hossa. He’s awarded a penalty shot and shelves it.
Here’s the one that has been passed around quite a bit. It’s the questionable hooking call on Erik Haula that came late in the third period and gave Chicago the power play that resulted in the game-winning goal.