The Wild are beating the tar out of the Avs (5-0). Their top lines are pretty stacked. They arguably have 7 or 8 players that be on the Flames top line (Parise, Granlund, Pominville, Vanek, Koivu, Niederreiter, and Coyle). Then they have a pretty good backend, and yet they were barely a playoff team last year. That says a lot about the western conference, they'd be a top three team out east.
Now they do have questionable goaltending, but it will be interesting to see what Darcy Kuemper gives them this season, he played pretty well when called upon last year.
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