Schedule Set For Road Tour - wild.com ... Are the Wild coming to a town near you? ... The Minnesota Wild has announced the dates, times and locations of the 18-city, four-state 2010 Wells Fargo Minnesota Wild Road Tour. Three separate legs of the tour begin Monday, June 21 and will stop at two locations each day. The tour will culminate with the fifth annual Wild Summer Bash on Thursday, June 24 at the Mall of America from 6-9 p.m ... The first leg of the tour will make stops in Roseau,
Honda/NHL® Commercial-Outdoor Rink (via Honda) ... This is sweet. Rumor is it was shot here. Anyone happen to know where? Oh, and how good does Broten look in the N? Love the green sweater ...
Wild free-agent thoughts - Michael Russo ... Russo also wrote his opinion of the Wild free agents this week. Take a look and see how we line up with his ideas ... Fletcher talked about the team's current unrestricted free agents (Boogaard, Nolan, Scott, Ebbett, Hnidy, Earl). He said he's had conversations with a few but indicated that they'll likely reach July 1. Usually this late, it always goes to July 1. And usually if it gets to July 1, players leave. The only example of a Wild UFA being
Audio of Season Ticket Holder Conference Call ... If you want to hear the entire conference call, follow the link. Some interesting parts for all fans, not just for the STHs. Enjoy ...
Today I was cleaning my room and closet and found some of my Wild memorabilia that I hadn't seen in a while ... It got me thinking about what my favorite piece of hockey memorabilia is ... I never played hockey when I was younger, much less learned to ice skate. (I know, I know, how can I live in Minnesota and not learn how to ice skate? To be honest I couldn't tell ya.) So I wouldn't have any collectables ... Most of my memorabilia is of the Wild (thanks to my dad for working at the X, getting
Terhaar and Greenlay possibly gone next year? ... From Patrick Reusse's Twitter: ... "PR domo Billy Rob says Wild is evaluating work of announcing teams before making announcement on their return next fall." ... All I can say, If they are fired, it's about time, no offense to Terharr and Greenlay, but their blatant homerism was way too much for me to handle ...
Chris Snow Fired ... Via Russo ... Chuck Fletcher continued to clean out the He Who Shall No Longer Be Named people from his administration. Chris Snow was the Director of Hockey Ops that got his job because as a sports writer he got a look at the NHLPA's salary cap strategy documents ... Let's just say, his worth has since passed ...
Thrashers prospect Patrice Cormier charged with assault ... Thrashers prospect Patrice Cormier is charged with assault because of his nasty hit back in January. I am glad he is getting punished for his actions ... that hit was totally unnecessary ...
Antti Miettinen is the 3rd unluckiest player in the NHL ... From Gabe Desjardins' fantastic Behind the Net: I think we can agree that this is luck ... Here are the league leaders in hitting posts and crossbars in 2009-10 - I have shootout data in here, which accounts for some totals not matching up ... Just 1.4% of all shots hit the iron (according to NHL.com) ...
Stephane Veilleux's injury causes NHLPA to file a grievance against the Tampa Bay Lightning ... NHLPA is going to file a grievance against the Lightning because of an injury to former Wild player Stephane Veilleux. It's truly an unfortunate situation for Veilleux. He's a good guy ...