Minnesota fell to a wild-card spot and now must chase teams that improved their rosters at the trade deadline.

Slated starter for Friday

It’s so emotional time of the season. Every one matters so much. And every loss sucks even more,” said Wild forward Marco Rossi.

The Minnesota Wild nearly let the Seattle Kraken back in it after taking a three-goal lead, but they held on for a 4-3 victory Tuesday at Climate Pledge Arena in Seattle. Minnesota had just one shot on goal the final period plus of the contest.

Fleury is expected to start for the Minnesota Wild when they host Pittsburgh on Sunday (3:30 p.m. ET; SN-PIT, MAX, truTV, TNT, TVAS), the final chapter between the 40-year-old goalie and the franchise he grew up with, and his final game against Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang.

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The Wild picked up a much-needed 1-0 win over the Boston Bruins Sunday afternoon during a brief return to Minnesota before hitting the road yet again Monday for a two-game road trip to Seattle and Vancouver.

Kiefer Sherwood scored the go-ahead goal with 3:45 left in the third period for the Vancouver Canucks in a 3-1 win against the Minnesota Wild at Rogers Arena on Friday.

So when Minnesota Wild goalie Filip Gustavsson calls a road win “ugly” after calling a home win “dirty,” he means so affectionately in both cases. As long as the Wild are winning and grabbing two standings points, they are generally unconcerned with how they arrive with a scoreboard advantage at the final horn.

Elias Pettersson scored a power-play goal 16 minutes, 14 seconds into the first period for a 1-0 lead for the Canucks (29-22-11) that held until Brock Faber knotted it up for the Wild (36-23-4) with a power-play goal 7 minutes, 12 seconds into the third period.

Kiefer Sherwood scored late in the third period, Kevin Lankinen stopped 37 shots and the Vancouver Canucks beat the Minnesota Wild 3-1.

Kiefer Sherwood’s goal late in the third period broke a 1-1 tie and propelled the Vancouver Canucks to a 3-1 win over the Minnesota Wild Friday in Vancouver. Elias Pettersson and Teddy Blueger also scored for Vancouver,