Postgame Hat Trick: Canucks 5, Wild 2

Wild.com's Dan Myers gives three takeaways from the Wild's 5-2 loss against the Vancouver Canucks at Rogers Arena in Vancouver on Monday night:

1. A two-goal second period sparked the Canucks.
The Wild was outmanned in the first period in almost every measurable category except the scoreboard, where Minnesota came away tied 1-1.
It didn't get so lucky in the second.
Vancouver got goals from Jake Virtanen and Elias Pettersson 1:36 apart early in the period to grab a 3-1 lead.
Minnesota would get one of those goals back late in the period, but could never again draw even despite a big push late in the second and early in the third.

Within a goal in the final period, the Wild killed two penalties and sustained about five minutes of consistent offensive pressure before the backbreaker: a breakaway goal by Pettersson, his second tally of the night, for a 4-2 lead.
The loss snapped Minnesota's five-game win streak. The Wild will aim to start a new win streak Tuesday in Edmonton against the Oilers, winners of three-straight themselves.
2. Jordan Greenway scored his first official NHL goal.
The rookie, sent to Iowa over the weekend to get some confidence, scored his first professional goal on Saturday in Iowa, netting two more in short order, for his first career hat trick.
It didn't take long for him to continue his goal-scoring barrage in the first period on Monday.

Credit Matt Read for a terrific break out pass to Charlie Coyle. That line set up shop in the Wild's offensive zone, where Jared Spurgeon's shot from the right point was stopped by goaltender Jacob Markstrom. Coyle and Greenway were left picking away at the rebound before Greenway finally jammed a second or third opportunity into the net.
It was Greenway's first regular season goal as an NHLer; he scored one in the playoffs against the Winnipeg Jets last spring.
3. Ryan Suter continued his torrid goal-scoring pace with a big second-period marker to get the Wild back within a goal.
With Suter's comeback from a devastating ankle injury followed by his 1,000th NHL game swallowing up column inches, forgotten in the hubbub is the fact Suter scored his third goal of the young campaign on Monday.

As brilliant as Suter has been in his career, he's never scored more than nine goals in a single season, a number he reached once (2016-17).
Suter's current pace would put him at 22 goals this season, a number that's probably not realistic... but it's certainly not out of the question that he could reach double digits for the first time.