1. Minnesota guaranteed itself a winning road trip.
The win improved the Wild to 4-2 on its franchise-record seven-game road trip with one game remaining on Sunday in St. Louis. With wins against Edmonton, St. Louis, Los Angeles and now Anaheim, Minnesota will fly home after the second Blues game having called this trip a success.
Now it wants to get greedy.
Minnesota also improved to 4-0-0 on the second half of back-to-back games this season, one shy of its win total from all of last season, when the Wild went 5-7-3 on the back end of consecutive games.
2. Playing in his 100th career NHL game, Joel Eriksson Ek found the scoresheet for the first time this season.
Eriksson Ek assisted on Jordan Greenway's goal 1:48 into the contest, a goal that really set the tone for the next 38 1/2 minutes.
Credit Eriksson Ek for putting in the work to make it happen. He fought through a hit along the right-wing halfwall and chased down a loose puck flipping a perfect backhand feed to Greenway, who was all by himself in the slot.
With all day to shoot, Greenway was patient, choosing to go forehand-backhand with a shot that got across the goal line before goaltender John Gibson could knock it out with his left pad.
3. Zucker/Granlund is a thing again.
Minnesota owned 19-5 advantage in shots after the first period but was able to grab just a one-goal lead.
Then Mikael Granlund and Jason Zucker did their thing in the second period.
We've seen the magic these two can create in the past, and they did so again in Anaheim. First, it was Granlund finding Zucker on a pass from behind the net to the left post for a slam dunk.
Just under four minutes later, it was Zucker finding Granlund from almost the exact same spots to make it 3-0.
Pontus Aberg got Anaheim on the board late in the period but Granlund and Zucker's offense essentially put the game out of reach.
