I don’t think I’ve ever been to a Wild game that I wanted them to win so badly. It would have been just too depressing to have the players all stick around after the game to give away their jerseys after a loss. Glad that didn’t happen…

Some thoughts:

• What was up with the waved-off goal call? Russo’s story said the official quote was “This is not a reviewable play. The play is considered dead once [Lee] thinks about blowing his whistle.” Thinks about blowing his whistle? Give me a break.
• The scratch-off cards given to fans were a nice idea, as was the team of 18,000 patch.
• Calgary didn’t seem to play their usual physical game – our guys even got to poke at Kipper without getting knocked flat.
• I took my camera with and took more than 900 shots (updates to the photo gallery coming soon).
• Don’t agree with Jacques – I was happy to see Burns fight Phaneuf (see above).
• Pavol beat Mikko in face offs last night, 59% vs. 56%.
• Stats show zero hits for Skoula, but he did actually knock a guy down in front of the net.

Next game: At Colorado on Sunday (KSTP, supposedly in HD)