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The Fiala Trade Enabled Minnesota To Get Top-10 Talent Danila Yurov
By Tony Abbott - Jul 8, 2022
When the Minnesota Wild traded Kevin Fiala on June 29, the package didn’t quite deliver on the hype. NHL teams don’t often move 85-point players in their […]
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Mocking All Eight of the Minnesota Wild’s Draft Picks
By Tony Abbott - Jul 7, 2022
Today is the day! A huge day in the Minnesota Wild’s history. They’ve only entered the Draft with two first-round picks twice. In 2006, they drafted James […]
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Filip Mesar Is the Wild’s Best Bet For A Stud Center
By Tony Abbott - Jul 6, 2022
Tomorrow will see the Minnesota Wild enter another NHL Draft where they need a center. Marco Rossi seems destined for the top of the depth chart, yes, […]
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Jagger Firkus Gives Wild A Chance To Draft Their Own Cole Caufield
By Tony Abbott - Jul 5, 2022
Until 2019 first-rounder Matt Boldy’s rise to NHL rookie excellence, Cole Caufield was the one who got away to many fans. The Minnesota Wild desperately needed an […]
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The Wild Can’t Have Too Many Defenseman Prospects
By Tony Abbott - Jul 3, 2022
Four years ago, the Minnesota Wild’s pool of defensive prospects was so dry, you could skateboard in it. Having a core of veteran Ryan Suter, then Jared […]
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The Wild Needed Quality But Settled For Quantity In the Fiala Trade
By Tony Abbott - Jun 30, 2022
The team that gets the best player in a trade wins the trade. It almost always works out that way. That’s why when Kevin Fiala first came […]
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Wait, Why Do One in Six Wild Fans Want To Trade Jared Spurgeon?
By Tony Abbott - Jun 24, 2022
The summer is a great time to take a breath, reflect on the past and future, and do anything you can to forget how the Colorado Avalanche […]
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The Wild Could Create the Next Brodin-Dumba Pairing By Drafting Denton Mateychuk
By Tony Abbott - Jun 23, 2022
Ten years ago, the Minnesota Wild drafted Matt Dumba with the seventh overall pick in the 2012 Draft. Dumba became an offensive complement to Jonas Brodin, whom […]
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The Wild Can Monopolize the Next Generation of Austrian Talent
By Tony Abbott - Jun 20, 2022
If you think about the Minnesota Wild in the late aughts or the dawn of the 2010s, you’re probably thinking about Finnish players. Sure, they had more […]
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Chuck Fletcher Is Wilding Out In Philly
By Tony Abbott - Jun 19, 2022
It was clear that Chuck Fletcher had run his course by the end of the 2017-18 playoffs. His Minnesota Wild team, which he’d essentially built from scratch, […]
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Would the Wild Gamble On Russian Star Danila Yurov In This Year’s Draft?
By Tony Abbott - Jun 17, 2022
If you distilled the secret to Minnesota Wild head scout Judd Brackett’s success into one simple sentence, it might be this: Don’t let top talents fall far. […]
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Is Trading For John Gibson A Risk Worth Taking For the Wild?
By Tony Abbott - Jun 15, 2022
In 2018-19, John Gibson played 58 games as the Anaheim Ducks’ workhorse goalie, with a 917 save percentage and his first top-10 placing in Vezina Trophy voting. […]