Wild Fans Fired Up To Face Blues In Stanley Cup Playoffs
With several hours before face off, we found dozens of fans gearing up at the Hockey Lodge. Excitement for the first game of the first round of playoffs is in full force.
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With several hours before face off, we found dozens of fans gearing up at the Hockey Lodge. Excitement for the first game of the first round of playoffs is in full force.
The Wild have now made the Stanley Cup Playoffs for five straight seasons.
The outlook for the Minnesota Wild in the Stanley Cup Playoffs isn't good, if you're asking the team at FiveThirtyEight.
Yeo and his new team pitted against his previous charges in one of the most intriguing pairings of the NHL postseason that opens on Wednesday night.
The Stanley Cup Playoffs are set to get underway Wednesday night, and the opponent for the Minnesota Wild will be a familiar one.
There is a mostly unspoken undertone in the Wild's camp, that these veterans might not have many years to have this good of chance to win a Stanley Cup.
It's their fifth straight trip to the postseason, but for the first time in recent memory, it feels like a year the Wild could make a run to the Stanley Cup.
Of course. Of course the Minnesota Wild's first round playoff opponent is the St. Louis Blues, coached by none other than Mike Yeo, who was Minnesota's coach just 14 months ago.
The Minnesota Wild finished their regular season Saturday night, and on Sunday evening the playoff schedule was announced.
Darcy Kuemper stopped 20 shots, Martin Hanzal scored in his return to the desert and the Minnesota Wild set a franchise record with their 49th win by beating the Arizona Coyotes 3-1 on Saturday night.
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.
