The Minnesota Wild were most concerned about their blue line heading into the shortened 2013 NHL season, even with the addition of Ryan Suter, and it proved to be the place of most concern throughout the regular season and into the playoffs. Most of the problems can be attributed to youth and inexperience and that ...
The Minnesota Wild will reflect upon the shortened 2013 NHL season positively. The franchise reached the NHL playoffs for the first time since 2008, several young players emerged as promising NHLers and it appears that Chuck Fletcher’s vision for a new core built around Zach Parise and Ryan Suter is starting to take shape. Minnesota’s ...
The Minnesota Wild enter tonight’s Game 4 match-up against the Chicago Blackhawks full of optimism after Jason Zucker’s overtime strike made it a 2-1 series on Sunday afternoon. While Josh Harding’s heroics and improved play from the Wild’s top line have been widely credited for the Game 3 success, one factor that shouldn’t be forgotten ...
It has been, dare I say, a wild beginning to the Minnesota/Chicago first round playoff series. Niklas Backstrom’s freak lower-body injury during warm ups prior to Game 1 seemed to spell doom for Minnesota, but Josh Harding has performed admirably after being pressed into duty. Throughout the season, a Wild offense that has starved for ...
One fact was pretty clear before the start of the Minnesota Wild’s first round series against the Chicago Blackhawks. The Wild would need their rookies to step up and be counted in their first ever playoff action. That fact was only reinforced after Minnesota were edged out 2-1 in overtime in a fascinating and tightly ...
The 2013 NHL playoffs are set to kick off on Tuesday night with the President’s Trophy winning, and top seed in the Western conference, Chicago Blackhawks taking on the eighth seeded Minnesota Wild. The Wild only secured their postseason place thanks a 3-1 road victory over the Colorado Avalanche on the final day of the ...
Head coach Mike Yeo wanted to make it absolutely clear that his team were not ‘done’ after a 3-1 victory over the Colorado Avalanche locked up the eighth playoff spot in the Western conference for Minnesota. However, nobody in the Wild organization was fooling anyone. They were delighted, and deservedly so, to have reached the ...
Wednesday night’s win over the Los Angeles Kings didn’t mathematically lock up an NHL playoff berth for the Minnesota Wild. However, it made it extremely likely that the Wild’s year will extend past this Saturday’s regular season finale in Denver. This franchise’s goal was set out very clearly last summer. It looks like the first ...
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, ...
Minnesota’s consecutive road wins over Northwest division rivals the Calgary Flames and Edmonton Oilers on Monday and Tuesday weren’t especially pretty and may have offered little encouragement for Minnesota Wild fans hoping that this team could be a serious contender in the Western conference. However, they did provide an absolutely vital four points. After a ...
