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Originally Posted by dino7c
I think the Wild, when healthy might be a better team than people give them credit.
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This entirely. People forget that before the injuries hit, the Wild were a top team in the league. Looking up stats, I found a chart as of Jan. 15, 2025 that had the Wild as the 4th best team in the league, with 12 wins above league average (league average being a 0.550 P%).
https://www.reddit.com/r/hockey/s/ZmjB0KN00f
They also played in the Central, the most brutal division this year with Winnipeg, Dallas, Colorado and St. Louis. Even Utah was fighting till the end.
In the same chart, outside of the Central teams, the top team in the NHL was Vegas.
Knights in 5.