The games have been very entertaining with some looking more like football scores than hockey games, but it is the first few games. Nothing to get too alarmed at, nor too giddy about.
Alex Ovechkin is not going to score a hattrick every night. (he actually scored his seven goals over the course of three periods for the record) The Blackhawks are not going to average better than 7 goals per game and the Penguins will not give up double digit goals again this season.
Toronto isn't going to keep playing the pond hockey shinny games like they played in their first two wins, and no, Vegas is not going to win 82 games 2-1, with James Neal scoring 82 game winners.
As Bruce Boudreau described his team's play Saturday night as "loosey goosey" such can be said about a number of the early season games that have been played. That is typical of this time of year, and will be a thing of the past in due time as teams watch film and commit to the structure of systems.
For the Wild, not playing a lot in the early season may not be such a bad thing after all. They have a couple of games to dissect and practices to work on the issues that they see.
We all knew that the early season schedule was not going to be easy, with three straight road games against quality opponents, culminating with the first trip of the season to Chicago.
That said, the Wild could very easily be 2 and 0 and feeling pretty good about themselves but instead are 0-1-1 and looking to make the necessary adjustments to get them on the right track and into the win column.
You can bet on it that the team that takes the ice on Thursday, in the United Center will have a far more disciplined game plan of Wild hockey, and nothing like the look of games one or two of the young season.
We say it all the time, it is a long season, one of ups and downs, and bumps in the road. October hockey is just a time to fill the points bank, nothing to hang your hat on as representative of the hockey we will see come March through June.