Coming to you from high above the X before the WCHA Final between Denver and North Dakota.

Gonna scout Jason Zucker.

Very entertaining game here at the X at times today, but a firewagon-like overtime ended with Antoine Vermette's OT winner with 33 1/2 seconds left after Brent Burns fanned on his attempted pass to the blue line for Mikko Koivu.

The shame of it for Burns, besides the obvious giveaway, was Burns was a threat all OT and nearly scored his sixth career OT winner soon before.

In fact, Mathieu Garon had to make a couple big saves, one on Greg Zanon right before the goal. Martin Havlat also had a great cut to the net, but Kris Russell's stick check ruined that chance. "He's trying to make a play," coach Todd Richards said of Burns' mistake. "Nobody cares more than Brent. He's trying to make a play. You can't fault him for that. I bet if you ask him, he'd be the first one to say, 'I should have made a different play.' But he's one of our leaders, he's one of our go-to guys. It's a learning lesson." I believe Jim Souhan wrote about Burns for the paper. My gamer is more of an Antti Miettinen sidebar. I figured with such an early game, a full game story in Sunday's paper would be old news. So I barely wrote about the game. Miettinen was benched for much of the second period, then responded late in the third with a goal, his first since Feb. 12, to snap a 17-game drought. That sparked the rally from 4-2 down as Pierre-Marc Bouchard tied it with 2:03 left. Basically my question in the gamer was whether Richards waited too long this season to send Miettinen a message. Miettinen is the type of player who sometimes loses his game and needs a bit of a kick in the rump. So why didn't it happen sooner is the question I posed and one I know fans have been asking for some time. The Wild had a ton of chances, and like usually, needed to work extra hard to score. But Rick Nash, because he's a true star, just needs a couple. Every night these days the Wild's getting beaten by the Sedins or the Marleaus, etc. The Wild needs to get some goal scorers in here, as I've been harping on a lot lately. As I believe Souhan wrote for tomorrow and I've been saying on here and on radio for awhile, Burns may be the guy that has to be dangled this summer to get the Wild that player or players. There's no other tradeable asset that can get that player, and the Wild doesn't have the cap space for next season to just go buy it via free agency. Plus, it's a shallow free-agent pool. "I really believe we have those guys," Richards said. "I mean, you're talking one of the elite players in the NHL right now (Nash). … We've got guys that can score and can do certain things. Everyone would upgrade to get a Rick Nash type player. But again, we aren't the highest scoring team. I think we defend hard. There are certain things that players have and assets that they bring and certainly Rick Nash brings an offensive presence. I believe Mikko Koivu, Marty Havlat have that presence too." Marco Scandella broke his right index finger today. Nate Prosser, an Elk River native, has been recalled and will play his fourth NHL game and first of the season Sunday against Montreal. Talked to Gui Latendresse briefly tonight. I asked him he thought he'd play again this season, and he said, "I don't know. We'll see." Press box was packed today. First, the Habs were in town early, so coach Jacques Martin and GM Pierre Gauthier and staff were here. Second, scouts were double-dipping, as were writers. That's it. I'm going to watch some college hockey. I'll be on Fox Sports North during the first intermission, fyi