A Minnesota Wild Blog that WON'T make you sick and kill you!
Jesper Wallstedt is the story of the Minnesota Wild and their November turnaround. No shade to Filip Gustavsson (4-1-1 record, .921 save percentage this month), but "The Great Wall of St. Paul" is on an entirely different level right now. After Sunday's 32-save shutout in Winnipeg -- the second in f...
17 days ago | 1 read
Every hockey team strives for depth in its lineup. The Minnesota Wild have struggled with lineup depth in the past and are missing most of the centers they started the season with. Somehow, the Wild are still one of the hottest teams in the league right now, and part of that might be the fact that s...
18 days ago | 0 reads
The 2026 Winter Olympics start February 6, and for the first time since 2014, NHL players will be allowed to compete. At this point, only 6 players for each team have been announced. Sweden has named Rasmus Dahlin, Victor Hedman, Adrian Kempe, Gabriel Landeskog, William Nylander, and Lucas Raymond t...
20 days ago | 0 reads
Minnesota Wild fans have known that Matt Boldy arrived in the NHL a long time ago. The only question is how high his ceiling could be. For most of the 24-year-old’s career, the conversation has been centered around his offense. Bill Guerin mentioned before last season that he believed that Bold...
20 days ago | 1 read
Goalies are voodoo. Not a single person who walks God’s green earth knows exactly what makes a goalie good or if a young goalie prospect will reach his full potential. Some guys show promise early, some guys don’t figure it out until they are 30, and others never reach it at all. Some guys just...
21 days ago | 2 reads
For most of the Minnesota Wild's existence, they've been what broadcaster Jeff Marek would often call "a donut." Why? "No center." It's not the sweetest way to put it, perhaps, but it's an accurate assessment of why the Wild tend to get burned to a krisp or kreme'd in the playoffs. Once th...
21 days ago | 3 reads
That's Wild Jesper Wallstedt led the Minnesota Wild with a strong performance in between the pipes and he prevented the Carolina Hurricanes from fully coming back to earn the shootout win for his team. Two goals in the third period to eventually tie the game and force overtime and then the s...
21 days ago | 1 read
In the age of analytics, player tracking, and data overload, sometimes the good, old-fashioned eye test gets overlooked as fans and media scrutinize players. There’s a reason for that, of course. History has proven that the eye test alone isn’t sufficient for overcoming biased perceptions or imperfe...
22 days ago | 0 reads
The Minnesota Wild seem to have recovered from their early-season struggles, at least for now, but that isn’t stopping people from discussing how Minnesota could improve its roster. Trade talks are running rampant, with Joe Smith and Michael Russo confirming that Bill Guerin is looking to improve th...
23 days ago | 1 read
That's Wild It was all doom and gloom for the Minnesota Wild early on. They could barely keep the puck out of their net while never even scoring on the other one. At 5-on-5, the team was miserable to watch and the only points they earned in the early days of the season was because of a red-h...
23 days ago | 1 read
Minnesota Wild Hockey is back, baby! It's good again. Awoouu (wild Howl) Don't look now, but the Wild are back to the playoff bubble. After a slow start in which they didn't look like their usual, structured selves, Minnesota has ripped off four wins in their past five games and picked up a los...
24 days ago | 0 reads
When a hockey team is painful to watch, it’s important to find a deeper reason to keep watching. The Minnesota Wild have been struggling, with a current record of 7-7-4 as I write this. While I’m a perpetual “rose colored glasses” sort of fan, not everyone can manage that. They need a deeper reason...
25 days ago | 0 reads
Marco Rossi has been sidelined by a lower-body injury, according to a report from The Athletic’s Michael Russo. As a result, Russo and I must (separately) write about David Kampf. It would be one thing to write about Kampf joining a team other than the Minnesota Wild. Kampf is a solid role pla...
26 days ago | 0 reads
It's no secret that the Minnesota Wild are not having the best first month of the season. They might have recently started to get out of a season-destroying skid with earning nine of the 12 points available to them in the last six games, but that still leaves them at NHL .500 and out of the playoff...
27 days ago | 4 reads
In life, sometimes someone gives you something for free just to get it off their hands. On the surface, it looked like a tremendous deal. A low-risk, high-reward deal that has no real downside. The Minnesota Wild pulled off such a trade on the eve of free agency, when they accepted a trade with...
28 days ago | 3 reads
Since before the summer, the NHL has been waiting for the next big name to shake loose. The Minnesota Wild are, finally, no exception. But just as they regained their flexibility to make moves, the trade market dried up. There were no Matthew Tkachuks or Mikko Rantanens ripe for the plucking. There...
29 days ago | 2 reads
That's Wild Macklin Celebrini and his band of San Jose Sharks came to town and just made the Minnesota Wild look a little silly. Despite outshooting them by a substantial margin and having chances that they never really connected on, the Sharks walked over the Wild to earn a 2-1 overtime win...
29 days ago | 3 reads
When Filip Gustavsson signed his five-year, $34 million extension before the season started, the Minnesota Wild's plans didn't actually change all that much. The Wild may have secured a starting-caliber goalie for the long term, but there was plenty of room for Goalie of the Future candidate Jesper...
30 days ago | 2 reads
With the return of Mats Zuccarello the Minnesota Wild seem to be back on track. The Wilderness Talk boys are back as well to discuss it all! Give it a listen down below and we'll respond to your comments in the next episode!
30 days ago | 4 reads
Hockey fans around the world rejoiced last season when the 4 Nations Face-Off showcased international best-on-best hockey for the first time in nearly a decade. While the event was a smash hit, it was only a prelude to the real main event — the Winter Olympic Games. With national teams finalizi...
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
Hockey fans around the world rejoiced last season when the 4 Nations Face-Off showcased international best-on-best hockey for the first time in nearly a decade. While the event was a smash hit, it was only a prelude to the real main event — the Winter Olympic Games. With national teams finalizi...
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
Brock Faber scored goals against the Carolina Hurricanes and New York Islanders on the Minnesota Wild’s most recent road trip, which is only notable because those are the first two goals Faber has scored this year. Well, at least while shooting the puck on net. His first goal of the year against the...
about 1 month ago | 4 reads
That's Wild The Minnesota Wild are a team that want to get better and aren't fine with just being near the bottom of the Western Conference standings. Even before the season, it was clear that they wanted to add a scorer of some sort but now that they're desperate for more of an offensive pu...
about 1 month ago | 3 reads
Rookie defenseman Zeev Buium has hit the ground running in his first NHL season, displaying the skating, creativity, and playmaking skills that make him one of the best prospects in hockey. The 19-year-old phenom has nine points in his first 16 games, which is tied for third in rookie scoring and 20...
about 1 month ago | 0 reads
Marco Rossi came into this season with something to prove for the third year in a row. In take two of his rookie season, he proved that he could stick as an NHL player. Last year, he proved that he could be a top-six player... or, so he thought. After a postseason where he was stuck on the Min...
about 1 month ago | 0 reads