Much like the New Year, a new NHL season is also a time to hope. Minnesota Wild fans have hopes that cross and are at a crossroads this New Year: That there’s a 2012-13 season to showcase the second richest free agent signings in league history, Zach Parise and Ryan Suter. In honor of the ...
The third edition of this article series looking at the history of the Minnesota Wild looks at the franchise’s top four goaltenders of all time. The Minnesota Wild have been a strong defensive team throughout their history and that has undoubtedly helped the goaltending talent. The franchise has gone through phases of rolling two goaltenders and having ...
Hockey fans were taken through a bit of history as the timeline ranged from the 1930s to 2006. If history has shown hockey fans anything, then it has illustrated that there are no guarantees when the Stanley Cup playoffs begin.
Mike Miccoli, Boston Bruins Correspondent For the opposing viewpoint on this issue, check out my colleague Jim Neveau’s piece. When I think of the 2010-11 Boston Bruins club, I think of the team-first mentality that pushed them through adversity and three grueling Game 7s en route to their first Stanley Cup in 39 years. I think ...
While the early season success of the Minnesota Wild is hardly surprising, their amazingly consistent play under first year head coach Mike Yeo has enabled the team to compete in all of their games. Even though the Wild traded key players such as defenseman Brent Burns and forward Martin Havlat in the offseason, they received ...
The season may be winding down, but there’s still the playoffs lurking right around the corner. It may seem like a short time, but the offseason is a long way off. While some teams will undoubtedly be looking at the 09-10 season sooner than others one thing is certain; the elite teams that have spent up to the salary cap ceiling will have to do some creative work to hold together for next year.
