Only 11 games into their season, the Minnesota Wild already find themselves answering questions about moral victories.

Minnesota will try to post the only kind of victory it is interested in -- the kind that appears on the scoreboard -- when it faces off against the Pittsburgh Penguins on Thursday night in Saint Paul, Minn.

The Wild are coming off back-to-back overtime losses, against the San Jose Sharks and Winnipeg Jets. The fact that Minnesota earned one point in each contest offers some solace to a team that is slumping, but it does not change its players' overall sour mood.

"Moral victories don't mean much these days," Wild defenseman Jake Middleton said. "But yeah, we thought we deserved a better fate (in our latest OT defeat)."

The Wild's next test is to try to knock off the Pen

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