Staal, Wild Hang On To Beat Avalanche, 3-2
Knowing that a daunting seven-game trip awaited them, the Minnesota Wild wanted to leave home on a high note. A win against a division rival helped them do just that.
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Knowing that a daunting seven-game trip awaited them, the Minnesota Wild wanted to leave home on a high note. A win against a division rival helped them do just that.
Tanner Morgan passed for 302 yards and three touchdowns in his first career start, including the tiebreaking 67-yard scoring toss to Rashod Bateman with 1:34 remaining that gave Minnesota a 38-31 victory on a rainy Friday night after Indiana rallied with 22 straight fourth-quarter points.
They play goalie, and their teams both made the state tournaments. They also play at the same school and they are from the same family – they're brother and sister.
Karl-Anthony Towns finished with 16 points for a listless Minnesota squad dealing with the distraction of star Jimmy Butler's trade request. Butler started despite being questionable with an illness and had a season-low four points on 2-of-11 shooting.
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Fourth-liners Eric Fehr and Marcus Foligno teamed for an awkward goal early and played some tough defense late. Fehr and Jonas Brodin scored their first goals of the season, and the Minnesota Wild won their fourth straight by beating the Los Angeles Kings 4-1 on Thursday night.
The Minnesota Wild's Ryan Suter will play in his 1,000th NHL game Thursday night at St. Paul's Xcel Energy Center. He is at a much different place than when he entered the NHL.
The Minnesota Twins have made an important new hire. Rocco Baldelli is the team's new manager. He is coming to Minnesota from the Tampa Bay, where he worked for the Rays. When Thad Levine and Derek Falvey were hired in November of 2016 to run the Twins front office, it was a matter of time before they would bring in their own "guy" to be their manager.
After a pair of games in Boston, the Red Sox hold a 2-0 World Series lead over the Dodgers and look every bit the best team in baseball.
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Jimmy Butler scored 23 points, Derrick Rose had 16 and Taj Gibson 13 for Minnesota, which has yet to win back-to-back games this season.
