A Wild ride ahead?

The National Hockey League playoffs are starting, and Minnesota will be in Anaheim to play the Ducks in the first game of a best-of- seven series.

The Wild almost won the NHL's Northwest Division which would have given them home-ice advantage. Instead, the are the seventh seed out of eight teams in the league's Western conference and will begin on the road.

MPR's Cathy Wurzer gets a playoff preview from Morning Edition sports commentator Steve Rudolph.

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