Cult of many Wild personalities
Updated: May 9, 2003, 11:44 AM ET
By By Jim Wilkie | NHL Insider
VANCOUVER, British Columbia -- The Minnesota Wild could care less if everybody
else continues to doubt their status as Stanley Cup contenders. They believe in
each other and head coach Jacques Lemaire's system to create the look of a team
of destiny.
The Wild made history Thursday night by beating the Vancouver
Canucks 4-2 in Game 7 of the Western Conference semifinals to become the first
team to come back from 3-1 series deficits twice in the same postseason.
To prove it emphatically, the Wild had to come back after being down 2-0 midway
through the second period.
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