The Minnesota Wild acquired right wing Chuck Kobasew from Boston on Sunday in a deal that sent right wings Craig Weller and Alexander Fallstrom to the Bruins ...
Minnesota Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher tonight announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has acquired RW Chuck Kobasew from the Boston Bruins in exchange for RW Craig Weller, a second round pick in the 2011 NHL Entry Draft and the rights to RW Alexander Fallstrom, who was selected by Minnesota in the fourth round (116th overall) of the 2009 NHL Entry Draft ... Stay tuned to Wild.com on Monday morning, when we will have more coverage surrounding the Kobasew trade, including video ...
Russo’s Rants - Minnesota Wild Roster Situation ... ROSTER SITUATION ... Under contract: G Niklas Backstrom, $6 million; D Kim Johnsson, $4.85 million ($5.3 million salary); RW Pierre-Marc Bouchard, $4.08 million ($4.25 million); D Brent Burns, $3.55 million ($3.4 million); D Nick Schultz, $3.5 million ($3.4 million); D Marek Zidlicky, $3.35 million ($3.5 million); C Mikko Koivu, $3.25 million ($3.3 million); RW Owen Nolan, $2.75 million; RW Antti Miettinen, $2.33 million ($2.5 million); LW
Among the nuggets from the Thursday R.S.S. Feed, which included injury updates on Craig Weller and Owen Nolan: Eric Belanger (above) spent 2:17 on one gritty shift Wednesday vs. Anaheim, leading the Wild to practice clearing the puck ...
Who knew? After the game, I was digging around, and look what I found? All the Wild players just uploaded their Facebook statuses ... seems they aren't that different from us afterall. Lets take a looksy shall we? ... ... Niklas Backstrom is sorry he can’t win every game by himself ... Eric Belanger wants to thank the trainers for the amazing rub down ... Marc-Andre Bergeron is willing to shoot only if the crowd yells at him enough ... Derek Boogaard is punching you in the face! ...
This could be bad news ... Mike Russo on the Report ... Some potential news brewing here in Minnesota, and the first is, to quote the Seinfeld show, “not gonna be good for anybody.” ... Marian Gaborik was the first one off the ice today. He ultimately admitted he feels “some discomfort” and added later after some further pressing by myself that ”If I would need to rest it, I’d definitely consider it. But I’m playing tonight and hopefully everything’s going to be good.” ...