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With much of Minnesota settled in at a lake, teeing things up at a golf course or prepping the backyard grill, the Wild offices were busier than usual for a holiday morning on July 4, 2012.
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Minnesota caught a break when a late goaltender interference call disallowed a goal.
The win clinched second place in the Central Division and home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs for the Wild.
Erik Haula had a goal and assist, Devan Dubnyk stopped 30 shots and the Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 Sunday.
Filip Forsberg and Kevin Fiala scored 10 seconds apart late in the second period, and the Nashville Predators beat the Minnesota Wild 3-0 Saturday.
Nino Niederreiter got his first goal in more than a month. Then, Alex Stalock won his first NHL start in more than a year.
There is the question of playing for seeding. It seems to consume conversations between Wild fans these days.
Minnesota Wild forward Zach Parise will likely miss the next three games, with bruising and swelling around his eye from a high stick to the face that led to blows to the head as he fell.
T.J. Oshie scored his second goal of the game 1:42 into overtime to bookend Alex Ovechkin's hat trick.
Brock Boeser played for the Vancouver Canucks Saturday against the Minnesota Wild and scored his first NHL goal.
Andreas Athanasiou scored 1:52 into overtime and lifted the Detroit Red Wings to a 3-2 win Sunday over the reeling Minnesota Wild.
A four goal second period was all it took for Vancouver to skate out of Xcel with a 4-2 win over Minnesota, leaving the Wild with its ninth loss in 11 games.
Reid Boucher scored twice in Vancouver's four-goal second period and the Canucks defeated the slumping Minnesota Wild 4-2 on Saturday.
The Minnesota Wild had a chance Thursday night to clinch a playoff berth with a victory over the Philadelphia Flyers. Fresh off a 3-2 win over San Jose on Tuesday, you would figure the Wild would come out & play inspired hockey. You would be wrong.
