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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at MNSU chapter.

 

I wrote an article back in November about how the Wild were doing up until that part and now I am presenting you the update, and it’s not pretty. I will always be a Wild fan but it’s hard, being a Minnesota sports fan in general is hard. While the Wild, as of February 27th, are on a four-game winning streak, it’s been a rocky road to get here. Below are the comparisons of my first article in November, and the stats [https://www.nhl.com/wild/standings/2018/league] today.

 

 

November

February

Rank in the league

3rd

16th

Games played

17

64

Wins

11

31

Losses

4

27

Overtime losses

2

6

Points

22

68

Goals for

54

176

Goals against

44

186

Goal differential

+10

-10

Shootout record

0-1

1-2

Looking at the bare bones facts, they still have more wins than losses which is great, but their goal differential dropped 20 points because their goals against is larger than their goals for. They also dropped from third in the league to sixteenth which isn’t unusual considering it was still early in the season when I first reported.

There has been a few (for me, heartbreaking) trades since the last update. In January, Justin Kloos was traded to Anaheim in exchange for Pontus Aberg, Nino Niederreiter was traded to Carolina in exchange for Victor Rask and Ryan Murphy was traded to New Jersey in exchange for Michael Kapla. In February, before the trade deadline, Charlie Coyle was traded to Boston in exchange for Ryan Donato and Mikael Granlund was traded to Nashville in exchange for Ryan Fiala. While some of these trades metaphorically broke my gentle heart, I can understand why things needed to happen and they must’ve done something right because we are on a four-game winning streak.

While being a Minnesota sports fan is hard most of the time, it can still be fun. I look forward to the rest of the season and seeing what the Wild can do with their new players.

Olivia is a senior at Minnesota State University, Mankato. She is double-majoring in Mass Media and English and has hopes to get into publishing. She is the current senior editor for the MNSU chapter of Her Campus and loves to write. In her free time when she's not writing or editing, she loves to sleep, hang out with friends, longboard, read and sleep some more.
Hannah is a Junior at Minnesota State University, Mankato and one of the Campus Correspondents for the HC MNSU chapter. She is currently double majoring in Marketing and Business Management with a Minor in Entrepreneurship and Innovation.