MINNEAPOLIS — The Wild is officially playoff bound.
A 5-4 overtime win against the Sharks on Sunday in front of 19,029 at Xcel Energy Center sealed the team's berth, the 12th in franchise history and ninth over the last 10 years, and in the process the Wild reached 100 points for the fifth time and fourth over the past eight seasons.
At 101, the Wild remains third in the Central Division, one point shy of the second-place Blues, who also won on Sunday to maintain the positioning it plucked from the Wild with an overtime victory on Saturday.
