Matt Boldy Plays Overtime Hero Against Toronto – Wilderness Walk

That’s Wild

With the game deadlocked at one goal each, the Minnesota Wild and the visiting Toronto Maple Leafs headed to overtime on Sunday evening. To win the game, all it took was some supernatural effort from Jared Spurgeon in overtime to then feed Matt Boldy his game winner.

The Wild are now 8-1-2 after this latest victory and if it wasn’t for the dastardly Winnipeg Jets who are near perfect to start their season, with an 11-1-0 record, the Wild would be sitting on top of the Western Conference. Still, it is an incredible start to a campaign where we were unsure exactly how it would even go. And, the captain is back.

• Kirill Kaprizov is doing as much as he possibly can to put the Wild on his back at times. And now, he’s grabbing the torch from some other names and claiming the spot of the NHL’s top winger. [Hockey Wilderness] 
• Wild show they can take a punch, suffer for a bit, but still keep on going against Toronto. [Pioneer Press]

Off the trail…

• Nikolaj Ehlers became the top Danish player in NHL history on Sunday. [TSN]
• A look inside Steven Stamkos having an emotional departure from the Lightning and how he is writing a new legacy in Nashville. [ESPN]
• The Senators’ consistency is improving, but will the results eventually come for them? [THN]

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