Bottoming out in the NHL, with its hard salary cap and hard salary floor, is riskier than in the other three major men's professional sports leagues. Here's the risk the Wild would be taking by going that route.
This is the Wild's final trip to Colorado during the regular season, and the teams are one point apart in the standings in the final game before the All-Star break.
It wasn't the world's smoothest trip, and the skier ended up doing a face plant at the end, but the video of the whole episode involving the Gophers' rowing team is glorious.
"We thought we were going into overtime," said Gophers center Eric Curry, who blocked the shot that was tipped to Michigan's Charles Matthews for the game-winner.
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