“Shock, I guess,” Dewar said from the Wild’s hotel lobby just before heading to the airport for a 4 p.m. flight to Montreal to meet the Maple Leafs. “I got the call ... They played hard ...

“It was going to be three big games for us, and especially ... Still, for the Wild to be down two with four minutes left and muster a point without Kaprizov, they’ll take it.

Arik Kershenbaum: I work with animals in the wild a lot, and people often say to me, “That’s so cool. What are they saying ... have a language just like us. Both positions are understandable ...