About to begin his press availability near his locker, the goaltender quickly realized his error and migrated all the way across the dressing room to set up camp in Koivu's vacated space, a move which (playfully) pushed the captain's buttons.
Just as Stalock finished his 90-second session, Koivu entered and quickly shoed Stalock away, with a few choice words mixed in just for fun.
"We sat down early in the year when we had meetings and talked about how we wanted to be a much better team on the road this year," Stalock said. "I think what comes with that is having fun on the road as a group. You're seeing that with this group. Just the looseness of this group around the locker room. We are having big team dinners out away from the hotel. I think guys are having fun with this road trip. It's good."
Minnesota is now 4-2-0 on its seven-game road march, traversing back and forth between the Pacific Time Zone, back home and to St. Louis, with a Daylight Savings time changed mixed in for good measure.