The New York Islanders and Minnesota Wild are each coming off one-goal decisions going into their game Saturday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

Just when the Wild are rebounding in St. Paul and rekindling their offense, they have to go on a two-week hiatus. “Just weird the way the season works,” captain Jared Spurgeon said. But after overcoming a successful homecoming by the Islanders’ Minnesotans to rally 6-3 Saturday at Xcel Energy Center while playing down another forward because of injury,

The Islanders enter the 4 Nations break with a final game in Minnesota, where the Wild will get one last look at Brock Nelson before acquiring him later this month/signing him next summer, in accordance with the Buccigross ‘Worst-Kept Secret’ Prophecies.