A Minnesota Wild Blog that WON'T make you sick and kill you!
Marco Rossi came into this season with something to prove for the third year in a row. In take two of his rookie season, he proved that he could stick as an NHL player. Last year, he proved that he could be a top-six player... or, so he thought. After a postseason where he was stuck on the Min...
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If you're a Minnesota Wild fan who hit the snooze button on the start of the season, let's catch you up: The Wild are tied with the San Jose Sharks for 13th in the Western Conference because they can't score. Their scoring is bad. Real bad. They have 20 5-on-5 goals in 15 games, tied with the...
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That's Wild It seemed like no matter what the Minnesota Wild were able to throw in the direction of the Carolina Hurricanes during their collision on Thursday night, the home team was able to solve it and throw it right back at them. In the 4-3 loss that has now earned them a 5-7-3 record fo...
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The Minnesota Wild are not where they expected to be right now. Eleven months ago, they were one of the best teams in the NHL and had their eyes on a deep playoff run. Even though they lost in the first round of the playoffs the following spring, general manager Bill Guerin felt comfortable en...
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The Minnesota Wild woke up on the Wednesday after their overtime victory over the Nashville Predators still in desperate need of saving their season. Two straight wins in the books are nice, but Minnesota is still three points back of a playoff spot, needing to jump at least three teams to secure a...
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For a team with the Minnesota Wild’s skill and talent, it’s hard to be this bad for this long. As it stands, the Wild are the third-worst team in the Western Conference at 5-6-3. It’s a far cry from their pace of play last season, when they were leading the NHL in points at the start of December....
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The Minnesota Wild broke their 5-game losing streak on Saturday with a 5-2 win over the Vancouver Canucks. Was that the catalyst that turned their season around, or were the last two wins more of an outlier in a 5-6-3 season? After Minnesota’s 4-1 loss to the Pittsburgh Penguins, assistant cap...
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The Minnesota Wild are at the center of a hockey conversation and it's not for a good reason. During their Tuesday night matchup against the Nashville Predators, Wild winger Marcus Johansson scored one of the most controversial goals in recent memory. As the finisher of an impressive passing pl...
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The Minnesota Wild's Saturday night win over the Vancouver Canucks was necessary to turn down the heat. Losing eight of nine games, including the first four of a six-game homestand, was threatening to boil over. But the win just lifted the pot from the flame for two days. A loss tonight against the...
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With the Minnesota Wild in seventh place in their division after going 2-5-3 in their last ten games, there’s a lot to criticize about the way they have started the season. Brock Faber is having issues, Father Time might finally be catching up to Jared Spurgeon, and so on. In all the doom and...
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The guys get back together to discuss all things Minnesota Wild including, the state of the team, Yurov's benching, Zuccy return, and what it could mean for the Wild moving forward. Leave any comments or questions below and we'll address them in the next episode!
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Bill Guerin didn’t want to blame Dean Evason when he fired him after a seven-game losing streak during the Minnesota Wild’s 5-10-4 start in 2023. "It had just gotten to that point where almost no matter what they did, the guys were having a hard time executing and generating offense," Guerin s...
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That's Wild The Minnesota Wild are not going to lose every game for the rest of the season! Thanks to the Vancouver Canucks having their own massive problems, the Wild snapped a five-game losing streak after taking on the team from up north at home over the weekend. [Pioneer Press] And...
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October was rough for Minnesota Wild fans. We don’t need to go into specifics, but it’s been a slog. So, let’s kick it back a few years and relearn hygge. The concept of coziness derived from simple pleasures originated in Denmark, but I think we could use it in these trying times. So, what wo...
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Last year, the Minnesota Wild's motto was "Choose Your Hard." We don't know what their motto is this year, but "Choose Your Harden" is as good a guess as any. That's a Pokémon joke, so let's explain that real quick. Pokémon evolve into stronger forms throughout the games, and Caterpie might be...
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In the 2003 Michael Lewis book "Moneyball: The Art of Winning An Unfair Game," the Oakland A's acquired David Justice. Justice was a two-time 40-home run player who gave the Athletics what hockey men call Rings in the Room, but that's not nearly why the A's targeted the 36-year-old for the 2002 seas...
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In an interview with The Athletic, Dean Evason revealed how emotional he and Bill Guerin got when Guerin fired him in 2023. Evason said he walked into Guerin’s office and immediately knew why Guerin had summoned him. “Are you firing me, bud?” Evason said he asked Guerin. “He said, ‘Yeah,...
about 1 month ago | 1 read
That's Wild It's no secret that the Minnesota Wild are essentially Kirill Kaprizov. Where he goes, they go. With some early-season struggles in all three zones (and especially at 5-on-5) that lead to losing possession of the puck just so easily, is Kaprizov trying to do too much? Does he fee...
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We’re only two weeks into the regular season schedule, but the Calder Trophy race is already shaping up to be thrilling. Three names stand out above the rest: Montreal Canadiens winger Ivan Demidov, New York Islanders defenseman Matthew Schaefer, and Minnesota Wild defenseman Zeev Buium. T...
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There’s no sugarcoating it; the Minnesota Wild stink so far this season. The reasons for that are up for debate, but the results are not. A 3-5-3 record through eleven games and a humbling start to the home stand has left both the team and its fans searching for answers after their most recent defea...
about 1 month ago | 2 reads
That's Wild The Minnesota Wild clearly want something else on their blue line. Yes, there are so many good and solid players on it but they want that extra grit and grind and physicality and roughness to it that can take them to the next level. It is an issue that started to become more prom...
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The Minnesota Wild lost 7-6 in overtime to the San Jose Sharks last Sunday, despite being heavily favored at -220 (FanDuel listed the Sharks at +185). The Sharks entered the game and were 1-5-2, dead last in the standings. The Wild also had a tough start to the season, having lost 5 of their last 6...
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In a normal season, you would consider Marcus Johansson a bargain. Playing on a minimum salary contract for $800,000, Johansson has four goals and seven points in his first 10 games. He went from cheap insurance in case former first-round pick Liam Ohgren didn’t leap to become a full-time NHL player...
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The Minnesota Wild were undoubtedly hoping for a better start to the season than their 3-5-2 record. While the campaign is still early, 10 games are enough to gather some data on how a team is playing. Little has gone right in Minnesota, but it's easy to pick out a few areas where the team has strug...
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You may have heard about this: The Buffalo Sabres are bad. Again. You also may be aware: The Minnesota Wild need scoring. Again. And perhaps you've known: The Wild used to have this fella in Buffalo named Alex Tuch. Are we all caught up? Great. Because you're going to hear a lot about...
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