It’s 30 minutes before opening faceoff for Tuesday night’s encounter with the Minnesota Wild. Bruins’ goaltenders Tuukka Rask and Anton Khudobin are right where they would ordinarily be – ice level on Level 3.

But this is no ordinary season thus far for each as they stroll five feet apart in street clothes down the runway en route to the Bruins’ dressing room.

Rask, with a “lower-body” interloper – “day-to-day” according to Claude Julien after Saturday morning practice and scratched for his encounter with Carey Price in the loss that night to Montreal, 4-2.

Khudobin in that net, and now out approximately three weeks with an “upper-body” injury suffered in Monday’s practice. His more obvious than Rask’s, if the slightly protruding cast on his right hand is any indication of what is likely a hand injury.

Into Game 6 of the season, the lighter brigade of Bruins marched with both Providence goaltenders as the new duo in charge of 24 square feet. Former No. 1 draft pick Malcolm Subban and former North Dakota star backing him up.

Hard to believe it’s four years since the Bruins tabbed Subban their No. 1 pick in 2012. Harder still to understand how four years later he has but one NHL game on his resume and is still with the organization. In 99 AHL games, Subban is 45-31-15; last year, 14-8-5 with a 2.46 GAA.

Some good news: Minnesota’s Devan Dubnyk was 0-5-0 with a 5.20 GAA in five career games against the Bruins, while the Wild were winless through three road games under first-year coach Bruce Boudreau at 3-2-1 overall.

Defenseman Adam McQuaid made his season debut after being sidelined for the first five games of the season with – you got it – an anonymous upper-body injury. In a corresponding move, defenseman Rob O’Gara was assigned to Providence.

Here’s what we learned as Boston dropped its second consecutive game, falling to 1-2-0 at home and 3-3-0 overall.

Keys to a W? Clog the neutral zone and protect Subban — and McIntyre

It was pretty obvious for the Bruins to grab a W Tuesday night, the forwards needed to slow the play through center ice and reduce scoring opportunities on Subban. In a double-runners-paced first period, the Wild put an eight-spot on Subban with maybe one legitimate scoring chance. But Boston also blocked six Wild shots.

That lasted all of 25 minutes. Five minutes into the second frame, the home team hung Subban out to dry. Former BU star and East Weymouth’s own Charlie Coyle put the Wild up, 1-0. Forty seconds later, an unattended Chris Stewart beat Subban from 15 feet out at 6:19 for the two-goal cushion.

“The biggest thing is we give up two quick goals in that period that just deflated us at that point,” Julien said after the debacle. “Our game right now has to be better without the puck and the kind of goals we’re giving up are killing us.”

The Wild pushed the lead to 3-0 at 10:36 on the power play with a Ryan Suter tally. That pushed Subban to the showers with McIntyre taking over.

In his first NHL game last year, Subban was lit up in St. Louis and pulled after 32 minutes. Tuesday, he lasted 30:36. McIntyre didn’t fare much better in his first NHL action when Jason Zucker sent a screened 30-footer to payday at 16:39.

“I’m just trying to finish the game, let alone win one,” a demure but noticeably dejected Subban said in the Bruins’ locker room after. “Obviously it sucks, but what can you do now, right?”

“We were terrible in front of him,” Julien said about the lack of support for Subban, “and we weren’t any better and that’s the big picture.”

The third was a sleeper with the only notable positive stat being a total of 16 Wild shots blocked by the home team.

Jason Pominville closed the stinker out with a goal at 15:12.

“We were down by five,” Bergeron said about the chorus of boos from the scant few at TD Garden after the final horn. “What are they supposed to do?”

The last home game in which a shutout margin was as big as Tuesday night was January 12, 2006, when the LA Kings blanked Boston, 6-0.

First goal drought continues

Six games into the season and the Bruins have yet to score the first goal. That dubious streak extended Tuesday when Coyle dribbler hopped past Subban at 5:07 of the second period.

“You’ve got to find a way to score that first goal, but at the same time, I think we need to be much better without the puck and respecting that part of our game a little bit better,” Julien summed. “The mistakes or the lack of coverage or not being in the right place right now is doing a lot of damage to our game.”

Power-play blackout persists

Boston entered the game with a 2-for-20 production on the man advantage – or 10 percent. They ended it at 2-for-23 or 8.7 percent.

Not for Mom’s eyes

Paid to put up points, David Krejci, Jimmy Hayes and Matt Beleskey have yet to score a goal, have but two total assists and are playing at a combined minus-16. Thier combined salary is about $13 million.

The Black and Gold hit the road the next four games – all against 2016 playoff teams in their conference. Without Khudobin and maybe Rask.

“I don’t know,” Julien responded when asked the condition of Rask. “Just finished the game, I really don’t know.”

Ouch.

“We’ve got to do our jobs, simple as that,” Julien said in Belichick speak. “That’s what I’m going to tell the players, same thing I’m telling you right now. Do your job and those things won’t happen. They know what they have to do, they’ve just got to do it.’

Maybe Wednesday night in Madison Square Garden.