Wild’s playoff point becomes dangerous as tensions increase and losses increase

Elmont, NY-Mats Zaccarello was at his stable and, like many of his teammates demolished, the veteran’s tone, body language and the inability to explain what has just happened in a 3-1 loss against the New York Icelanders said everything.

Against a team of the Eastern Conference that has gone from the contender to the playoffs to one who seems to play the rope, the wild has never threatened once.

Well … technically they threatened for the miserable 36 seconds after the n. 36 provided the wild with a lead of the first period. But then two horrible rounds of The Wild turned the game into the blink of an eye.

The Wild did not have a rejection, no ability to collect any offensive execution to come from behind and beat a team that was on a Skid without six -games victories and had not beaten the wild in six games dating back to December 2019.

And once that Yakov Trenin took a penalty incurred in the third, one lost later and Noah Dobson gave the islanders a 3-1 narrow that they would easily ride until the finish line.

“I don’t really have much to say right now, to be honest with you,” said Zuccarello. “I am so tired of being here and saying guys and that. I’m sorry. Not well enough. No, I have nothing good to say honestly about it. It sucks that they immediately mark and they took the momentum.”

The savages are in insidious waters right now.

Yes, they hope that Kirill Kaprizov and Joel Eriksson Ek will soon return to a certain point, but with five games left in the regular season, they went without victories in three games (0-1-2) against the devils, the Ranger and the islanders and have won once in the last seven games (1-4-2). Not only did St. Louis blues skip them for the best point Jolly thanks to a winning series of 11 games, but Calgary’s flames are five points back with two games in hand, with the Dallas Stars visiting Minnesota.

The Wild and Flemas face each other next Friday evening in Calgary, but a great concern that the wild has better? One of the Calgary games in hand is an additional component against Los Angeles Kings due to a postponed game due to the fires of Los Angeles. The kings almost certainly have nothing to play and the key players would probably rest.

“That’s why it’s frustrating that we can’t put a little better game than today,” said Zuccarello. “It is difficult to get to the playoffs. Unfortunately, few games have remained and you must have that urgency of having a small dog in you to simply say:” Effes it “, you know, and go. But honestly, I don’t know what to say. You may get better answers from other guys at this moment. It is only frustrating to lose a game like the one at an important moment of the year.”

Tensions are high with the wild at this moment.

They are desperate for the return of Kaprizov and Eriksson Ek, but they are under rigorous malice. The hope is that at least Kaprizov will return to San Jose on Wednesday.

But suddenly, defender Jake Middleton is wounded after being launched head before on the tables on Friday evening when Bo Horvat pushed him from behind. At the beginning, the referee Francois St-Laurent did not seem even planned to call a penalty until he saw Middleton twist of pain and horvat that made the wild bench die from the coach.

In the end Middleton got up with assistance and left the game for an injury to the upper body on which coach John Hynes did not provide an update.

Horvat, Middleton accident. pic.twitter.com/vnb4ghmle4

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But what is uncensored the wild is St-Laurent called a minor penalty on Horvat, not a greater one. Hynes was bruised and called St-Laurent for an explanation. He was angry like Hynes was on the bench to a referee.

After the game, the Wild President of Hockey Operations and the general manager Bill Guerin came out of the locker room with red eyes and screamed against the writers of local beats not to ask for Hynes the call and instead go to the referee’s room to ask for “that F – on a hole”. Guerin continued along the corridor, but when Hynes came out to turn to the media a few seconds later, Guerin I reappeared and shouted to Hynes so as not to answer any questions about the call and that the writers should instead ask “that F – A hole”.

The Wild has not marked the subsequent game of power and Middleton did not return to the game. What concerns the wild nature is that Guerin’s anger could be fed by the fact that Middleton’s injury could be known how serious is at a time when the wild is fighting to play the playoffs. If it is out of the long term, the savages have a Chisholm Declan waiting behind the scenes. David Jiricek is out for the season with a lacerated spleen, so the depth of Wild’s blue line is now thinner until the end of the regular season when they should sign Zeev Buium, a finalist of the University of Denver Hobey.

“It’s an important part of our team,” said the Freddy Gaudreau center. “He is the next man out there. This is how it was all year round. So we hope he is well. You never like to see a brother going that way. And you just have to continue taking a step forward, the other guys continue to take a step forward.”

After no goals for both teams in the first period, Zuccarello scored in the beginning of the second period when he took a rebound from the End Board behind the net and banned him from the Laya Sorokin mask.

Thirty -six seconds later, after a soft turn in which the wild players of Let Icelander are faced with the net, leafing through the rebounds, Ryan Hartman shot the disc on Noah Dobson and Casey Cizikas linked the score.

New York goal!

Marked by Casey Cizikas with 17:42 remaining in the 2nd period.

Assisted by Ryan Pulock and Pierre Engvall.

New York: 1
Minnesota: 1#Minvsnyi #Isles #mnwild pic.twitter.com/nivo7nlflj

– NHL objectives (@nhl_goal_bot) April 5, 2025

Two rounds later, the islanders took a 2-1 advantage when Simon Holmstrom’s central feed destined for Alexander Romanov was put by Gaudreau while trying to spread it.

“I don’t know what to tell you,” said a Gaudreau oppressed. “The seasons are high and low. We are in one hour that is more a drop with losses lately. But it doesn’t matter how the waves arrive, you just have to keep your head centered. It is always easy when things are going well.

“We have a large group of guys here who are good leaders, who have crossed things several times, who have crossed those difficult waves, and this is the attitude. We just have to stay positive and do it in the right way.”

Wild injuries, but this team is a shell of what was at the beginning of the season. They have to play a perfect hockey to win, and in the end it takes a toll. It certainly seems that it is what is happening now.

And this is the greatest frustration. They know what they have to do to win, but they can’t do it.

“We are working our ass and we are trying to put a victory together,” said defender Brock Faber. “It was just a challenge. There is nothing more than negativity from almost every single person outside the boys in this room, and it is difficult when you work a whole year and sacrifice your body and everything possible to win and you cannot find one.

“But it’s just the time of the year. It is the next. It is only, we must refocal for Dallas on Sunday and put together some victories. We have been to a fantastic place for the whole year, and this was a really hard trait for us.

Hynes, after the game, arrested Ombrace when asked how morale raises when the wild has to “stop bleeding”. He stressed that they got a point in each of the two previous games and could win them.

However, the Wilds were victorious once in seven games and are going in one way, while the blues have passed them and the flames are becoming hard.

This is just reality.

However, Hynes wasn’t going to paint a beautiful image on the loss of islands.

“I think the boys should be disappointed by urgency, competitiveness, execution, energy to play in a game like this,” he said. “We don’t talk about being in a funk and feeling sorry for ourselves. This is a game that we knew how to come to you (could) get four points out of six. We didn’t have the level of intensity required, attention to detail, so there is nothing sorry for yourself.

“We didn’t play the game we had to play to win. Now, in saying that, if we went out and played a game and lost, I was able to see where you come from (to lift the moral). But it shouldn’t feel sorry for ourselves. They should be like,” this is the best time of the year and we are in one position. “We have to be much better than us tonight.”

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