We caught a rare glimpse of the Wild this week in Toronto as they picked up a 5-2 win on the Leafs, looking far better than their 7-10-1 record in doing so. And in the process of putting together a story comparing the routes Minnesota netminder Niklas Backstrom and Jonas Gustavsson both took to the NHL, I came across the full story behind just how Backstrom landed with the Wild in 2006.