The Wild have won five straight dating back to their October 29 contest against Detroit and it’s time to get on board Minnesota! They’ve beaten quality opponents: Detroit twice, Vancouver, St. Louis and Calgary (okay… not Calgary, but the rest of the teams are good). They’ve also been scoring: they hung five on the Nucks and three on the Flames. [...]
Articles written by: Tom Schreier
Wild Must Use Nashville Predators Model in Order to Succeed
If the Wild want sustained success, they need not look forward to the Nashville Predators as a franchise model to emulate. Here’s what Nashville has done right: Drafting and Development Their leading scorer in 2009-10, Patric Hornqvist was the last pick in the 2005 draft. Pekka Rinne, their current goaltender, was an eighth round pick in 2004 (there no [...]
Wild Miss Opporunity to Correct Poor Start With Loss Against Injured Penguins
Facing the beat up Pittsburgh Penguins at home on NBC, the Wild were handed an opportunity to curtail the pain of their putrid start by defeating a perennial contender on national television. But they flopped, losing the game 4-2. The Penguins played the game without cornerstone players Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin, Tyler Kennedy, Kris Letang and Brooks Orpik and still [...]
Dany Heatley Returns to Ottawa (Again), but It Just Doesn’t Feel the Same
I go to school near San Jose, California and got to cover the Sharks when Dany Heatley returned to Ottawa for the first time as an opposing player. I remember the hype around the game. Although it landed on the same day that LeBron returned to Cleveland (which, obviously, was a bigger event that day), both players and fans in [...]
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