It’s amazing how it works often in the NHL when it comes to a total lack of energy and team-wide dead legs following a long road trip, particularly out west.



Not even Bruce Boudreau’s repeated, incessant, preemptive warnings — or a mock cheer by the hometown fans — could shake the Wild out of their very predictable stupor Tuesday night.



All day long, the Wild coach tried to guard against a sleepy effort after the Wild spent eight days getting adjusted to the Pacific time zone and arriving back in Minnesota in the middle part of Monday afternoon without the benefit of a practice. Even earlier in the day, he not-so kiddingly told reporters he warned his players three times and planned to do so twice more before the game.



But Boudreau never expected the Wild to play for 60 minutes like somebody stuck melatonin in their pregame meals.



Nevertheless, in a game that saw No. 1 goalie Devan Dubnyk get hurt, the Wild somehow persevered...