NHL Rink Wrap: Wild clinch playoff spot; Maple Leafs set team records

The Minnesota Wild officially clinched a playoff spot on Sunday with a 5-4 overtime win against the San Jose Sharks. Fiala played a starring role in the win with a goal and three assists, including the helper on Jared Spurgeon‘s game-winning goal. The line of Fiala, Matthew Boldy, and Frederik Gaudreau was dominant all day on Sunday and helped drive the Wild’s offense. Fiala is having a fantastic season for Minnesota and playing his way to a significant raise this offseason. It is going to be a challenge to re-sign him given the salary cap situation but he is a must-sign for the Wild given how important he has been for the offense this season.

Spurgeon’s game-winning goal in overtime that helped the Wild clinch their playoff spot.

The Blues offense is rolling and scored eight goals on Sunday in an 8-3 win against the Nashville Predators, including these seven goals (from five different goal scorers) in the second period. The seven goals in a singe period is a franchise record for the Blues.

The Anaheim Ducks score some beautiful goals, and it is usually Trevor Zegras involved in them in some way.

Maple Leafs set new franchise records

With their 4-2 win over the New York Islanders on Sunday night the Toronto Maple Leafs set new franchise records for single season wins (50) and points (106). The Maple Leafs are playing great hockey right now and are looking like one of the league’s top teams going into the playoffs. That is where they will be measured. All of the regular season wins and points are not going to mean a thing until this team does something in the playoffs, and after five consecutive seasons of First Round exits there is no group of players and no team facing more pressure to win this season than this Maple