Wild fans have high expectations for this season
For the first time this year, your Minnesota Wild are hitting the ice! David Schuman spoke with some die-hard fans.
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For the first time this year, your Minnesota Wild are hitting the ice! David Schuman spoke with some die-hard fans.
Minnesota should again be a top-tier team in the Western Conference. The question mark: Did the offseason give this team a better chance to make a deep playoff run?
The puck drops on the start of the Minnesota Wild's season on Thursday. Derek James got a taste of the new foods being offered at the Xcel Energy Center.
The Minnesota Wild have selected two athletes from Sweden and Russia in the first round of the NHL Draft.
Vladimir Tarasenko broke out for the St. Louis Blues with a well-timed natural hat trick, putting the Minnesota Wild in real trouble.
"I can tell you from our end, the game's we've won have been, you know, tight, you know, right til the end," head coach Dean Evason said.
The Minnesota Wild's loss Sunday evens the series with the Blues at two games apiece. They return home for game five Tuesday.
Jordan Kyrou and David Perron each scored twice, Jordan Binnington made 28 saves in his first start this postseason and the St. Louis Blues beat the Minnesota Wild 5-2 on Sunday to even the best-of-seven Western Conference series at 2-2.
Kirill Kaprizov had a hat trick and Eriksson Ek scored twice for the Wild, who snapped back at the St. Louis Blues with a 6-2 victory to even their first-round playoff series at one game apiece Wednesday night.
Frustrations were high for Minnesota Wild players during Monday night's 4-0 loss to the St. Louis Blues, and defenseman Jared Spurgeon is going to pay for letting his temper get the best of him.
"It's the playoffs. Everyone is back to zero and it's first to four," said center Joel Eriksson Ek. "It was hard hitting. It was intense. You expect that one steroid pretty much tonight."
The pursuit for the Stanley Cup begins Monday night on home ice for the Minnesota Wild.
When the Wild drop the puck on game one of the playoffs, the Xcel Energy Center will be packed with fans. The bars and restaurants in downtown St. Paul will be full, too.
The Minnesota Wild and the St. Louis Blues were two of the best teams in the NHL down the stretch of the regular season, with these long-running rivals locked in a relentless heavyweight fight for second place in the Central Division.
Kirill Kaprizov scored a power play goal 44 seconds into overtime on Thursday to give the Minnesota Wild a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames.
Travis Boyd scored the go-ahead goal, which stood after a long review, and the last-place Arizona Coyotes beat the Minnesota Wild 5-3 on Tuesday night to slow their pursuit of home-ice advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
The Minnesota Wild's Kevin Fiala, named the NHL's second star of the week twice in a row, is riding a 10-game point streak and five-game multi-point streak.
Dmitry Kulikov scored with 1.3 seconds remaining in overtime to give the Minnesota Wild a 5-4 victory over the Nashville Predators on Sunday night.
Kirill Kaprizov had a goal and three assists to become the first player in Minnesota franchise history with at least 100 points in a season, and the Wild established four franchise records and tied another in beating Seattle 6-3 Friday night.
Kevin Fiala scored twice, including the go-ahead goal in the third period, and the Minnesota Wild beat the Vancouver Canucks 6-3 on Thursday night.
An obscene gesture by a Minnesota Wild player grew into a generous one.
Cam Talbot had his third shutout of the season to help the Minnesota Wild to a 2-0 win over the Montreal Canadiens on Tuesday night.
Minnesota Wild forward Marcus Foligno was placed on the NHL's COVID-19 protocol list on Monday.
Jared Spurgeon scored his second goal of the game 1:05 into overtime to send the Minnesota Wild to the playoffs with a 5-4 victory over the San Jose Sharks on Sunday.
