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GAME STATS
	GP	W	L	OT
HOME	44	23	18	3
AWAY	44	24	14	6
TOTAL	88	47	32	9

MAY STATS
	GP	W	L	OT
HOME	1	0	1	0
AWAY	0	0	0	0
TOTAL	1	0	1	0

Wild Could 'Possibly' Bring Back Some Of Their Pending UFA's
ST. PAUL, Minn - When asked if they would consider bringing back some of its free agents, Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager responded by saying "possibly, yep."
Posted: 15 May 2025

Dissecting Toronto's Second Straight First Round PWHL Playoff Exit
For the second straight season, the Toronto Sceptres suffered an opening round playoff loss at the hands of the underdog Minnesota Frost. Toronto finished first in year one, and second in year two during the PWHL regular season to secure home ice advantage, but in both campaigns, the advantage was all Minnesota's.
Posted: 15 May 2025

2025 Columbus Blue Jackets Potential Free Agent Targets: Dmitry Orlov
This summer, Spencer Lazary and I will continue our series with more potential free agent targets that could be on the market on July 1st.
Posted: 15 May 2025

Chargers Take Jab at Wild in Schedule Release Video
Fans across the NFL gained a new tradition a few years ago when teams started producing schedule release videos. Not only do teams across football take shots at each other, but sometimes teams like the Minnesota Wild catch strays. The Los Angeles Chargers made a schedule release video using Minecraft creations and threw an extra jab at the Wild when announcing they would take on the Minnesota Vikings in Week 8. In the clip, a Minecraft version of Sam Darnold is seen looking into a fireplace where two banners hang on the wall.
Posted: 15 May 2025

The Wild May Have Locked Themselves Into the Wrong Time To Strike
"Last week, I helped my friend stay put. It's a lot easier than helping someone move. I just went over to his house and made sure he did not start to load s--- into a truck." -- State of Hockey native Mitch Hedberg. After four years of largely staying put, the Minnesota Wild are itching to move. They want to move on free agents, they want to move young players for established ones, they want to make a splash. " I like to be aggressive ," said general manager Bill Guerin at the end of his team's abbreviated playoff run. "I don't want to sit on my hands at all. And I'm tired of doing that." " Christmas Morning " has been the phrase ownership has thrown around about July 1. In some sense, that was
Posted: 14 May 2025

David Spacek's Days With the Wild Are Numbered
Before the start of this past season, Minnesota Wild defensive prospect David Spacek achieved a slow, steady ascension up Minnesota's defensive prospect ladder. After the Wild took him in the 5th round of the 2022 NHL draft, he passed older players like Ryan O'Rourke (2nd round, 2020), Jack Peart (2nd round, 2021), and Kyle Masters (4th round, 2021), who Minnesota drafted higher than him.
Posted: 14 May 2025

NHL Rumor Roundup: Could The Penguins Pursue Rossi? Noah Cates' Future With The Flyers Uncertain?
Speculation about Marco Rossi's future arose following the Minnesota Wild's first-round playoff exit.
Posted: 13 May 2025

3 Wild trade targets after Golden Knights series loss
The Minnesota Wild were eliminated by the Vegas Golden Knights in the 2025 Stanley Cup Playoffs. Minnesota put in a respectable effort despite heading into the series as the underdog. Minnesota will operate under different circumstances, however. The Wild had nearly $15 million in dead cap space on the books over the last few seasons.
Posted: 12 May 2025

David Rittich Could Stablize Wild's Precarious Goaltending Situation
With the NHL postseason done and dusted in Minnesota, the front office will focus on improving the team to avoid another first-round exit. Bill Guerin has confirmed that the team's priorities will be getting Kirill Kaprizov re-signed and bringing in help at forward and center. While sorting out the forward group is Minnesota's most crucial order of business, the team could also use some help in the net. At first glance, the Wild are set at the goaltender position.
Posted: 12 May 2025

Dylan Guenther Is A Perfect Target In A Marco Rossi Trade
The Minnesota Wild will likely move on from Marco Rossi if they get the right deal. David Reinbacher is one option, but he's a worst-case-scenario trade, just in case the Wild move on from captain Jared Spurgeon. However, general manager Bill Guerin is set with his defense and will worry about getting a backup goaltender later, who you can sign for as little as $950,000. Jesper Wallstedt will likely be that player.
Posted: 12 May 2025

Wild Players Making Waves At World Championships
While we are here being miserable about the Minnesota Wild not making it out of the first round of the playoffs for yet another year, some of the members of this team are overseas playing in the IIHF World Championships. From established veterans nearing retirement, to prospects carving out their own path; there is lots of Wild representation at the tournament this year. It has been projected that Kirill Kaprizov is going to be paid the highest salary in the entire NHL on his new contract. With a mix of Minnesota needing to retain its star and the rising salary cap, all signs are pointing to that being a real possibility.
Posted: 12 May 2025

Marc-Andre Fleury’s Agent Responds to NHL Insider's Unretirement Idea
Marc-Andre Fleury dazzled in Canada's debut and his agent’s postgame comment sparked buzz.
Posted: 12 May 2025

The Marco Rossi Disconnect Shows the Downside of "Best Available Player" Drafting
"Best Available Player" is a phrase that gets thrown around a ton at draft time. Just add talent, and get the best players you can. Fans thinking, If I were the GM, I'd simply go BPA, is the basis of why, for example, the Minnesota Wild drafting Charlie Stramel in 2023 inspired backlash. It's why fans in 2024 laughed as the Philadelphia Flyers traded down one spot to not draft Zeev Buium, allowing Minnesota to pick up a talented defenseman for a third-round pick and the right to draft lower-ranked center Jett Luchanko.
Posted: 12 May 2025

Ranking The Top 25 PWHL Players
The 2024-25 PWHL season is in the books. It was another year where the stars came out to play with the likes of Hilary Knight, Sarah Fillier, and Marie-Philip Poulin atop the league scoring leaders.
Posted: 11 May 2025

Sam Bennett Is the Joel Eriksson Ek Contingency Plan
The Minnesota Wild are looking for a center to back up Joel Eriksson Ek. Sam Bennett fits the description of what they need to take the load off Eriksson Ek, so he can stay healthy and contribute offensively throughout the playoffs. Bennett is a proven winner and a playoff performer. Bennett has 43 points in 61 playoff games played with the Florida Panthers, the kind of secondary scoring the Wild need to make a deeper playoff run.
Posted: 11 May 2025

3 early predictions for Wild offseason after Golden Knights series loss
There was a time this season when the Minnesota Wild were the cream of the crop in the National Hockey League. At the beginning of January, John Hynes' club was 27-12-4 and looking potent in the Western Conference. Then came devastating long-term injuries to Kirill Kaprizov, Joel Eriksson Ek and Jonas Brodin, which completely derailed the season. Although the Wild finished 45-30-7 and occupied the top wildcard berth in the conference, it was a struggle without three of the team's most important players.
Posted: 10 May 2025

Former Wild Forward Hired By Buffalo As Special Assistant To General Manager
The Buffalo Sabres announced a few days ago that they have fired Eric Staal. He will serve as the special assistant to the General Manager Kevyn Adams.
Posted: 10 May 2025

As the offseason begins in earnest, some Wild stories to follow
Cynical folks from about 40 other states and a handful of Canadian provinces like to poke fun at the self-proclaimed State of Hockey, noting that for all of Minnesota’s hockey talent and culture, the Stanley Cup has never been won here. To the contrary, the NHL’s most revered trophy almost always makes a summer stop in Minnesota, when a triumphant player from Eden Prairie or White Bear Lake or ...
Posted: 09 May 2025

Wild centre Marco Rossi could be traded and checks all the boxes for Calgary Flames
The Calgary Flames may have a new centre target to make a move for as they prepare to head into the offseason. It's no secret that the Flames need to improve down the middle of the ice, with the main goal for this organization being to find a centreman who can play top-six minutes. GM Craig Conroy did address the organization's centre depth in January, acquiring Morgan Frost, as well as winger Joel Farabee, in a trade with the Philadelphia Flyers.
Posted: 08 May 2025

Wild on 7th - Episode 108: VGK Game 6 Recap - Season Wrap with Bill Guerin
Bill Guerin joins the pod to help put a bow on the season, and in classic Billy fashion, he did just that. How else might one wrap a HARD season, but with a quick screening of the cinematic genius that is Strange Brew! Billy talks about his feelings while watching the Stanley Cup Playoffs, how this season felt different, how proud he is of the team for continually battling, and how he is going into the biggest summer of his tenure with the Minnesota Wild. Can we crack the mold of Minnesota sports culture, shift expectations, and build a real winning attitude?
Posted: 08 May 2025

Seven Members of Wild Organization to Participate at 2025 IIHF Men's World Championship
Seven members of the Minnesota Wild organization will represent their respective countries at the 2025 IIHF Men's World Championship in Stockholm, Sweden, and Herning, Denmark, from May 9 – 25. Five countries will be represented by a member of the Wild organization, including Canada (goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury , defenseman Jared Spurgeon ), Czechia (defenseman David Spacek ), Slovakia (goaltender Samuel Hlavaj ), Sweden (defenseman Jonas Brodin , center Marcus Johansson ) and the United States (defenseman Zeev Buium ). Fans can visit iihf.com for more information about the 16 competing national teams, tournament schedule and format. Buium, 19 (12/7/05), made his NHL debut in Game 1 of the First
Posted: 08 May 2025

No Full-Time NHLers, 2 KHLers On Slovak World Championship Roster
Hockey Slovakia released a list of 26 players that will be headed to Stockholm, Sweden for this year’s IIHF World Championship. It includes no full-time NHL players, most notably Juraj Slafkovský, whose decision not to play is covered in depth by Karine Hains on THN’s Montreal Canadiens site.
Posted: 07 May 2025

Wild centre Marco Rossi could be traded and he'd be a good fit for Vancouver Canucks
The Vancouver Canucks badly need another top-six centre and players of that archetype are hard to come by. President of hockey operations Jim Rutherford has been open and candid about the organization's plan to trade for a quality centre. The Canucks are willing to dangle their first-round pick and more in any trade. Marco Rossi and the Minnesota Wild seem to be going through a rocky stretch.
Posted: 07 May 2025

The Wild Must Think Bigger Than Brock Nelson
The Minnesota Wild have made it no secret that they were interested in pending free agent Brock Nelson. People have identified the Warroad native as someone the Wild would love to give a homecoming to for some time. Nelson's a big, fast center who's scored 25 goals or more in every season (except for the 56-game COVID season) since 2017-18. Now that we're T-minus-8 weeks until free agency -- the State of Hockey's promised Christmas Morning -- the rumors of the Wild and Nelson will continue to intensify unless Nelson re-signs with the Colorado Avalanche, or a team that trades for his rights.
Posted: 07 May 2025

Golden Knights Veteran Defenseman To Miss Game 1 Of Western Conference Semifinal
LAS VEGAS -- Golden Knights defenseman Alex Pietrangelo did not take the ice for pregame warmups before Game 1 of the Western Conference semifinals against the Edmonton Oilers.
Posted: 07 May 2025


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