This is a familiar spot for the Wild, which has tripped into a 0-2 hole in a playoff series for a fourth straight time.
The previous attempts to flip those early deficit into successful finishes went awry, as the Wild ended up getting swept by the Blackhawks in Round 2 in 2015, nixed in six in the first round by the Stars in 2016 and most recently overwhelmed by the Blues in the opening round of the playoffs in just five games only a year ago.
There's still time to avoid the same fate, starting Sunday in Game 3 at Xcel Energy Center, but the Wild has quite a bit of work to do to make that a possibility judging by how its stint in Winnipeg went – a two-game sweep that finished with a lopsided 4-1 loss Friday at Bell MTS Place.

"We've been a great home team all year," center Eric Staal said. "That's what we gotta do. We gotta respond in Game 3 and get the job done on our ice."
The Wild returns home with little to build off of after it sagged against the Jets Friday. Its start was fine, as the team put nine shots on net in the first. But that ended up being more than half of its total output for the entire game.
Winnipeg applied more pressure in the second, and the Wild didn't have an answer.
Still, the team was trailing by only a goal in the third. A putrid push by the offense didn't help close that gap. Instead, the Jets took over – scoring three times, the same amount of shots the Wild had the whole period.
"We just weren't getting through the neutral zone cleanly," winger Jason Zucker said. "I think that was the biggest thing. They were standing up on us and every time we got it in, we threw a guy on an island with one forechecker. We've got to find a way to hit guys with speed and get it in to get in on the forecheck a little better."