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Pittsburgh PenguinsPre-season projection: Playoff team Final team record: 26-19-3 (8th in Western Conference) Flip a coin. The Minnesota Wild made the playoffs for the first time in five years; they almost played themselves out with a 5-6-1 finish, blowing their shot at the division. They scratched out critical season-ending tilts with the Los Angeles Kings and ...
The Minnesota Wild’s blue line is broken. A group that entered the shortened 2013 NHL season dependent upon the improvement of players like Clayton Stoner, Justin Falk, Nate Prosser and Marco Scandella has never really come together. In the long-term, the development of Jonas Brodin and Mathew Dumba will wash Minnesota’s blue line blues away, ...
Captain Kirk once learned that one Tribble is cute, but too many Tribbles are trouble. The same goes for rookies on an NHL team. In a topsy-turvy season, the Minnesota Wild has been forced to go against gospel, playing an unusually large number of rookie skaters in high-leverage game situations. Freshmen Mikael Granlund, Charlie Coyle, ...
Pre-season projection: Playoff team Current stock: Dropping Team record: 6-5-1 (11th in the conference, tied for eighth) As the Wild thrashed the Avalanche on opening night, Mike Greenlay, Minnesota’s TV color guy couldn’t help but wiggle the forest green and Iron Range red tattooed on his butt by bragging, “We’ve been talking about the fact that the ...
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The Minnesota Wild have had to watch as upset after upset has occurred in the Western conference. They will probably remember when they were the ‘upset’ story of the season and hopefully the entire organisation will be thinking about next season and a comeback performance from a roster that had a worse second half of ...
There will be no playoff hockey for the Minnesota Wild once again in 2012, but the 2011-12 season has left much to discuss and consider in Hockey Town. GM Chuck Fletcher doesn’t have the easiest job in front of him, and what he feels he needs to do will be strongly based on how he ...
Minnesota GM Chuck Fletcher has had some difficult decisions to make over the last few weeks. He has been watching his team slide further and further down the standings, he has had to deal with injuries to key players on his roster, and he has had to deal with disgruntled players like Marek Zidlicky. The ...
The hottest question on the lips of New Jersey hockey fans is “What’s happened to the Devils?” Anyone that saw the Minnesota Wild game Tuesday night seeking that insight came away still scratching his or her head. One answer echoed through the hallways of the Prudential Center long before the game started: A lack of ...
