GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Headed home for the better part of the next two months, the Wild will certainly have something to remember from the road.
On the sixth night of its current trip, Minnesota -- down three top-9 forwards and welcoming its goaltender back for the first time in more than a month -- scored eight times in a chaotic and crazy game Thursday at Gila River Arena, one the Wild won 8-5.
The victory salvaged a three-game road trip and put the exclamation point on a historic road-heavy schedule to start the season. Now 36 games into the 2019-20 campaign, Minnesota has played 23 road games. It will now embark on a stretch of 18 of 22 games in downtown St. Paul where the Wild will spend a grand total of five nights in a hotel between now and the middle of February.
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