The Wild snatch victory from the jaws of defeat

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What a semi-finals we had this year, with the Lynx upsetting the Rush in a 7-game series and the Wild coming back from a 3-1 game deficit to beat Halifax.

 

Things were looking awful after the Halifax put themselves up 3-1 in the series. Saskatoon had some really tough losses, especially two comebacks, one of which where they lost a 7-1 goal advantage and ended up losing 8-7. Last week we talked to Carles and Brick to see how they stay strong mentally, and although it looks like there was more to what they told us, whatever they are doing surely works wonders.

They rallied back from being down 3-1. First, they won game 5 at home in what was a very close game that ended in OT and then they had a very dominating performance at Halifax that in my opinion, was the series decider. Losing game 6 at home by 7-1 (!!) when you were up 3-1 has to be mentally crushing, and it showed in game 7 at Saskatoon where the Wild had another monstruous game winning 6-1.

 

The Wild have continued their hot streak in the playoffs with now 5 games in a row, putting them up 2-0 in the finals and heading now to Ottawa for games 3 and 4 in what looks to be a very favorable series for the Wild who are likely to take the Founder’s Cup home.