Red Wings, 3 vs. Wild, 2 OT

It's another one of those moral victories because who would've thought after having such a horrid December that the Wild would've been able to pull three points out of games against the top two seeds in the West, but the reality of the situation is that the Wild could and should have won the game. No matter what your thoughts are on the call reversal of the Franzen no goal (and it should have been been no goal IMO) the reality is that the Wild weren't able to hold onto the lead, for the second game in a row, execpt this time they weren't able to pull any kind of heroics to get a win in the extra sessions as Pavel Datysuk scored in the shootout against Josh Harding for the Red Wings and Kolanos, Burns and Koivu were all stopped on their attempts.
The Wild held their own against the defending Stanley Cup champions, but were trailing 1-0 going into the third when Owen Nolan scores his seventh of the season and fifth on the powerplay to tie the game up seconds into the third. And 16 seconds after Nolan scores, Antti Miettinen gets out of his scoring slump and gets the Wild a 2-1 lead, but after back to back penalties by Stephane Veilleux (high sticking) and Josh Harding (slashing) the Wild were on their heels and rye initially no goal call on Johan Franzen for a high stick was reversed by Toronto and the game ends up tied by the end of regulation, and the Wild end up with only one point by the end of the shootout.
At least the Wild pulled out a point, something the Wild haven't been able to do in many games this season, but I really am getting tired if these moral victories, I'd rather get real victories and the two points along with it.

UP NEXT: TODAY at Colorado Avalanche, 7:00pm CT
Notes for today's game:
• Pouliot definitely deep in JL's doghouse, as is Reitz
• Zidlicky is a game-time decision