Wild set franchise record for victories
Published 2:31 pm Sunday, April 9, 2017
A late-March swoon had the Minnesota Wild in danger of backing into the playoffs.
Now that the calendar has turned to April, the Wild are rolling again and they’ll have a head of steam into the postseason.
Darcy Kuemper stopped 20 shots, Martin Hanzal scored in his return to the desert and the Wild set a franchise record with their 49th win by beating the Arizona Coyotes 3-1 on Saturday night.
“We’ve been pretty consistent most of the year and toward the end we got our game back,” Wild captain Mikko Koivu said. “We have been playing good hockey and getting better toward the end of the season.”
The Wild already clinched home-ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs after rallying from stretch of nine losses in 11 games.