\u201cWe had coverage. It wasn\u2019t by surprise,\u201d Hynes said. \u201cThose are the little details where, OK, we know what it is. We watched it an hour before the game. But that\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n
There were struggles against St. Louis, too, but the Blues didn\u2019t make the Wild pay.<\/p>\n
The Blue Jackets did, even though they almost undermined their offense by committing eight penalties; four were delay of game penalties, with three due to pucks over the boards and one from an unsuccessful goalie interference challenge on Boldy\u2019s goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want to be difference makers on power play, and I think we did well tonight,\u201d said Buium, the rookie defenseman one-timing in his first career goal from the left circle during the third period of only his second regular-season game. \u201cWe also had two in the first that we didn\u2019t score on either. So, scoring on those, and you never know what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n
But there were other what ifs.<\/p>\n
Losing 62% of faceoffs meant the Wild were chasing the puck, and all but two of Columbus\u2019 goals came on shifts that started with the Blue Jackets winning the draw.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWe had coverage. It wasn\u2019t by surprise,\u201d Hynes said. \u201cThose are the little details where, OK, we know…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":219523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[385,99],"class_list":["post-219522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nhl","tag-nhl","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}