It started innocently enough. A few shots, a couple of early goals, and Chef Donny calling his shot that we were about to get a nutty one. He wasn't wrong.
Chef Donny reading the room about 10 minutes in.
3 shots 2 goals… looks like we might get a nutty one
Sure enough, the floodgates cracked. Two goals in under a minute, the kind of opening that makes you put your phone down and lean toward the TV. Game 1 of this matchup was already a track meet, and the early signs were that we were getting the sequel whether the goalies liked it or not.
Two goals in under a minute, with Game 1 still fresh in everyone's head.
Then the Wild started doing what the Wild do — building a little bit of pressure and immediately handing it back. Colorado punched in a power play goal to take the lead, and that was the moment the Chiclets stream chat (and Donny's timeline) collectively groaned. Every time Minnesota looked like it was about to push back, somebody took a brain-dead penalty and the Avs made them pay.
Colorado cashes the power play to flip the score.
Which, naturally, is exactly the vibe Donny captured later — the same complaint every Wild fan has been screaming at their TV all series. You can't keep gifting Colorado man-advantages and expect to come out the other side.
The Wild fan experience, summed up in one tweet.
Every time the Wild get life we get crushed by a dumbass penalty
Meanwhile, the actual hockey is sort of the B-plot. The Chiclets stream is must-watch playoff content at this point, and tonight the breakout star isn't Whit or Biz or Grinny — it's Murls, who showed up to the booth like a man who knew this game was going to overtime and packed accordingly. Every group has a Snack Guy. Murls is THE Snack Guy.
Murls revealing the first intermission stash.
It's a perfect playoff night cocktail: a goal-fest in Colorado, a Wild team allergic to staying out of the box, and a stream that's half hockey analysis and half a guy unloading concession-stand contraband onto the desk. The hockey might break Minnesota's heart by the third. The snack run already won.