After the sky-high win in Game 2, it’s only natural that the Minnesota Wild came crashing back to earth.
It was a rough night, and some ordinarily reliable pieces that have driven the Wild’s success this season were missing in action. The GREEF line — Joel Eriksson Ek, Marcus Foligno and Jordan Greenway — was ineffective on both ends of the ice. Kevin Fiala’s tire-fire post-season continued, and Marc-André Fleury was merely ordinary in net. To say that the Wild played poorly is one thing, but it doesn’t undercut how well the St. Louis Blues executed. Especially the increasingly irritating Jordan Kyrou, who got the scoring started.
blues get on the board first as fleury and the wild lose the jump ball and it lands right on kyrou’s stick pic.twitter.com/AvvwMpGD2k
— Hockey Wilderness (@hockeywildernes) May 8, 2022
A few bounces and ricochets, and it lands right at Kyrou’s feet with a gaping net ahead. Kyrou was a force tonight, with two goals, five shots,…
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