If you think only the Chicago Blackhawks and their fans were rooting for the Wild to beat the Dallas Stars in the 1,230th and final game of the NHL's regular season Sunday, you'd be wrong.
You can bet the Vancouver Canucks wanted another postseason crack at the Blackhawks, too.
The Canucks' logo may be an orca, but the Blackhawks have proven to be the Canucks' White Whale. The Canucks' Stanley Cup dreams were destroyed in each of the past two playoffs by those meanies from Chicago.
Now the two match up again, and all in the NHL will get to see if the powerhouse Canucks are for real.
"We feel as a group that we still have a lot to prove," Vancouver forward Alex Burrows said before playing the Wild recently. "We lost to Chicago the last two years in the playoffs in two disappointing series. We've gotten older and more mature as a group, and we want to accomplish big things.
"I think the guys really worked hard this summer to have that chip on our shoulder that we wanted to come back, play strong and prove ourselves to everybody. Our depth at forward and on defense and in the nets has never been this good.
"Now the goal is to make it pay off in the playoffs."
The Canucks rolled through the 82-game regular season with 117 points and were rewarded with the first President's Trophy in franchise history.