Pitlick Pots Three in Wild AHL Thriller Loss

Tyler Pitlick lights up the AHL scoresheet with two goals and an assist, but Iowa drops an 8-6 barnburner to Springfield. The veteran Wild depth piece, who's bounced between Minnesota's NHL roster and the minors amid their injury crunch, heats up with four points in his last two outings down there. At 34, Pitlick's reminding front offices why he's stuck around this long, especially as the Wild eye post-Olympic tweaks to their bottom six.