3-year-old Wild spills Canucks in Game 7 to reach West Finals

Minnesota will meet Anaheim for a berth in the Stanley Cup Finals.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia (AP) -- Minnesota Wild coach Jacques Lemaire summed up the Western Conference final perfectly.
"Are you kidding?" Lemaire said when asked if he ever imagined getting this far, this soon. "Never in a million years."
But his sixth-seeded Wild set up a surprising series with No. 7 Anaheim Thursday night, overcoming a two-goal deficit to beat the Vancouver Canucks 4-2 in Game 7.
Not many picked the Wild to even make the playoffs in their third season, let alone the conference championship. But the Wild have made history with a pair of improbable comebacks in their first playoff appearance.
Another comeback
Darby Hendrickson scored the winner with 5:12 remaining as Minnesota completed a second comeback from a 3-1 series deficit to advance in the playoffs. No other team has done that twice in the same year.
"We were down on the scoreboard but we weren't down in here," said Hendrickson, a Minnesota native and former Canucks player. "We didn't have the word quit in us."
In the first round, Minnesota won the final three games against the Colorado Avalanche. In each series, the Wild won two of the last three -- including Game 7 -- on the road.
"We're going to enjoy this one tonight. No team has ever done it," said Wes Walz, who tied it 2-2 at 8:05 of the third period. "We normally keep our emotions in check but in this case we're going to let them go crazy -- for at least a few hours anyway."
Vancouver's loss ruined the chance for the first all-Canada Stanley Cup final since Calgary beat Montreal in 1989.
The Ottawa Senators, who had an NHL-best 113 points this season, will play the New Jersey Devils in the Eastern Conference final. Both series begin Saturday.
"We played our best game tonight of this series and they found a way to win," Canucks coach Marc Crawford said. "You have to compliment them for finding a way to win and wish them well as they move forward."