Preview: Blue Jackets & Wild Streak Into Historic Showdown Mark Scheig | December 31, 2016 This is the one we’ve all been waiting for. The Columbus Blue Jackets and Minnesota Wild meet Saturday night in a historic regular-season matchup of teams with double-digit winning streaks.…
Wild’s Three Stars of December Kirby Horgan | December 30, 2016 You really can’t ask for a better month of hockey from the Minnesota Wild. With a 23-8-4 record overall and a 12-0-1 month of December, Minnesota has propelled themselves to second in the…
Wild, Blue Jackets Set to Make History Dustin Nelson | December 30, 2016 New Year’s Eve will play host to alumni games and the annual Canada versus United States battle at the World Junior Championship. That makes it all the more surprising that…
Wild Prospects: First Impressions at WJC 2017 Kirby Horgan | December 27, 2016 Day one of the World Junior Championship is in the books from Montreal and Toronto and it was an impressive start from a Minnesota Wild perspective. With four draft choices…
Recap: Dubnyk and Wild Outlast Canadiens Ryan Szporer | December 23, 2016 It wasn’t exactly the goaltending duel it was made out to be, but the Minnesota Wild nonetheless stood tall on Thursday, beating the Montreal Canadiens 4-2. In the end, Devan…
Dubnyk & Price Battle for Crease Supremacy Mark Bowie | December 22, 2016 When the casual hockey fan is asked who they believe is the best goaltender in today’s NHL, the most common response is “Carey Price.” There’s no arguing that Price is…
Wild’s Youth Shouldering the Load Kirby Horgan | December 20, 2016 Finally. As recently as a few months ago, it was uncertain whether the heavily hyped “kids” on the Minnesota Wild roster would ever begin contributing in the way they were…
Two Wild Prospects Earn “C” at World Juniors Dustin Nelson | December 20, 2016 The 2017 World Junior Championship is just around the corner and Wild fans will find plenty of exciting prospects going for gold in Toronto and Montreal. For just the eighth…
A Wild Holiday Wish List Mark Bowie | December 20, 2016 The Minnesota Wild are riding a seven-game winning streak and are sitting pretty as the second place team in the NHL’s Central Division. With three games to go before the holiday break,…
The Rise of Kirill Kaprizov Mark Bowie | December 13, 2016 There’s a lot of focus from the Minnesota Wild fanbase on the team’s three most recent first-round draft picks—Joel Eriksson Ek, Alex Tuch and Luke Kunin—and for good reason. Some…
Nate Prosser: Wild’s Unsung Hero Kirby Horgan | December 13, 2016 Make it four victories in a row and five straight collecting points for the Minnesota Wild. The longest of either streak this season has been highlighted by both Devan Dubnyk’s Vezina-caliber…
Wild’s Tough Expansion Options Mark Bowie | December 10, 2016 Is there honestly any other team in a worse position than the Minnesota Wild entering the 2017 NHL Expansion Draft? Should they protect four defensemen to ensure the likes of Jonas Brodin…