I really hate whining about the refs, and they were not the whole reason the Wild lost that game, but that was pretty ugly. It wasn't totally one-sided (Landeskog minor in the third), but they became a large part of the story at the end of regulation that led to the tie, and that's not right.
The Wild said all the right things yesterday about not blaming the refs and they (the players) need to do more. And the bottom line is the Wild has blown two third period leads on the road in this series, regardless of how that has come to pass. You just can't do that.
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