As I write this, I’m trying to decide which is worse, sheltering in place with no NHL playoff hockey or watching the Boston Bruins crash last year’s Stanley Cup Final? The truth is, I have suffered less this year than last. I have nothing against the Bruins. They used to push around my beloved Minnesota […]

The Hockey Writers’ Tim McNiff had a recent opportunity to speak with Minnesota Wild President Matt Majka on navigating a strange new world without hockey. How do you stay ready to resume a season that may or may not have a conclusion? Go inside the Wild for a look at how the team is responding, […]

“We’re pretty much locked down,” says Minnesota Wild assistant general manager Tom Kurvers. “We basically said, go home and ride this out until we give you more direction, and so I’m trying to abide by those same rules. But, you know, it pulls you out of your life habits and so, I’m going to take […]

The year was 2003 and spring fever was definitely in the air. The Minnesota Wild, in just their third year, had not only crashed the Western Conference playoffs, but Jacques Lemaire has somehow guided his team of mostly has-beens and thank-their-lucky-stars-for-expansion players past the favored Colorado Avalanche and Vancouver Canucks and into the Western Conference […]

Just when it looked like the Minnesota Wild’s season was swirling around the drain, suddenly there is flow and for now, at least, that flow appears to be heading towards postseason play. Hockey teams are always looking for flow and for the Wild, you can find it and if he takes off his helmet, you […]