Wenatchee took it 3-2 in a shootout at Everett, the only puck that mattered coming after 65 scoreless-for-both overtime minutes had settled nothing. The Wild never trailed in regulation and still needed the skills competition to close it out.
The first period went by without a goal, and Wenatchee broke through in the second to lead 1-0 after 40 minutes. Everett answered with two in the third — the Wild matched with one of their own, and the teams went to overtime level at 2-2, the turning point being Everett's inability to hold the lead it had just built.
The decisive number is 0-0 in overtime: neither side converted across the extra session, and the shootout produced a single goal, Wenatchee's. With scoring that thin, the goaltending at both ends carried the night.