Yardbarker: Minnesota Wild

Wild beat Avs in shootout for home-and-home sweep

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:58:00 -0500

Mikko Koivu and Andrew Ebbett scored in the shootout, and Josh Harding stopped both of Colorado's shooters to help the Minnesota Wild beat the Avalanche 3-2 on Saturday night for a home-and-home sweep.

Wild place Havlat, Burns on injured reserve list

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:50:05 -0500

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -- The Minnesota Wild have placed right wing Martin Havlat and defenseman Brent Burns on injured reserve.

Minnesota Wild place hobbled Martin Havlat, Brent Burns on IR

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:26:36 -0500

The Minnesota Wild have placed right wing Martin Havlat and defenseman Brent Burns on injured reserve.

Wild use Kobasew's hat trick to edge Avalanche

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:24:52 -0500

Chuck Kobasew had a hat trick and Andrew Brunette scored the winning goal on a power midway through the third period Friday, leading the Minnesota Wild past the Colorado Avalanche 5-3.

Kobasew's hat trick, Brunette's game winner lift Wild

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:24:00 -0500

Chuck Kobasew had a hat trick and Andrew Brunette scored the winning goal on a power midway through the third period Friday, leading the Minnesota Wild past the Colorado Avalanche 5-3.

Kobasew, too

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:24:00 -0500

Chuck Kobasew had a hat trick and Andrew Brunette scored the winning goal on a power midway through the third period Friday, leading the Minnesota Wild past the Colorado Avalanche 5-3.

Kobasew notches hat trick

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:24:00 -0500

Chuck Kobasew had a hat trick and Andrew Brunette scored the winning goal on a power midway through the third period Friday, leading the Minnesota Wild past the Colorado Avalanche 5-3.

Wild put RW Havlat, D Burns on injured reserve

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 17:21:13 -0500

The Minnesota Wild have placed right wing Martin Havlat and defenseman Brent Burns on injured reserve. Burns has been feeling the effects from a concussion and also had an illness this week. Havlat has been hampered by a hamstring injury. Havlat has been a disappointment after being signed to help make up for the scoring lost when Marian Gaborik left for the Rangers. He has two goals and six assists in 19 games this season. The moves are retroactive to Nov. 18.

Wild places Havlat, Burns on injured reserve

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 16:12:04 -0500

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -The Minnesota Wild have placed right wing Martin Havlat and defenseman Brent Burns on injured reserve.

Wild tops Avs behind Kobasew’s hat trick

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:56:15 -0500

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) -Chuck Kobasew had a hat trick and Andrew Brunette scored the winning goal on a power midway through the third period Friday, leading the Minnesota Wild past the Colorado Avalanche 5-3.

Wild Recalls D Sifers from AHL

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:20:00 -0500

SAINT PAUL/MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. – Minnesota Wild General Manager Chuck Fletcher today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has recalled defenseman Jaime Sifers from the Houston Aeros of the American Hockey League (AHL). In addition,...

Wild To Host Fantasy Camp Feb. 12

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 19:08:00 -0500

The Minnesota Wild will hold a Fantasy Camp on Friday, Feb. 12, 2010. Men and women 21 or over with high school or college hockey experience are invited to participate. The Fantasy Camp will take place between 10 a.m. to 6 p.m., with the Wild taki...

Ice Breakers: Bruins-Wild, Wednesday 11-25

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 14:14:24 -0500

Come Thursday, the Bruins will hopefully be thankful for an undefeated 4-0 road trip, a trip that ends tonight when they skate at the XCEL Energy Center in St. Paul against the Minnesota Wild. Minnesota (8-12-2) currently occupies the cellar of the Western Conference, but they are coming off a win in their most recent game, [...]

Christmas comes early Pouliot traded to the Habs.

Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:06:00 -0500

RWD game me a heads up on this trade. I am excited about this trade because I have never been impressed with Benoit Pouliot, the kid was a waste of a uniform who put up little if any effort and I wondered why the Wild keep coming back with him in the lineup, now if the Wild can get rid of their other first round mistake James Sheppard the kid has shown nothing to date that leads me to believe that he will ever be anything more than a fourth line player. I don't think he has even earned the right to play on the Wild's fourth line in my humble opinion. If he is lucky he MIGHT score 5-10 goals this season. As a self confessed Montreal Canadians’ hater I guess it will take some time for me to get used to this move. I think that Guillaume Latendresse might be able to add some grit in front of the opposition net.

The thing I like about Wild general manager Chuck Fletcher is that he isn’t sitting around making excused like the former Wild GM Doug Risebrough did. I actually like the fact that this season Fletcher has went out and got Chuck Kobasew, Andrew Ebbett. It shows that Fletcher isn’t going to sit around and just let people wear a uniform.

The Minnesota Wild and Montreal Canadiens traded underachieving forwards Monday afternoon.

Montreal sent power forward Guillaume Latendresse to the Wild in exchange for forward Benoit Pouliot.

Latendresse, a 6-foot-2, 230-pound left wing, has just 2 goals and 3 points on this season after a 26-point season in 2008-09. In his first three season, Latendresse had put together back-to-back 16-goal seasons in his first two years in the League.

"Guillaume is a young, talented forward who has averaged 15 goals per season in each of his first three NHL seasons,” Wild GM Chuck Fletcher said. “At just 22 years old, he will add size and a scoring punch to our roster.”

Pouliot, Minnesota's first-round pick, No. 4 overall, in the 2005 Entry Draft, has just 2 goals and 4 points in 13 games this season. The 6-foot-3, 199-pound left wing has 9 goals and 18 points in 65 NHL games, spread across parts of four seasons.

Pouliot is presently out of the lineup with an upper-body injury. He last played on Nov. 13. Latendresse, meanwhile, has been relegated to third- and fourth-line duty for the Canadiens. He has not seen more than 9 minutes of ice time since Nov. 5. [Wild.Com] Props to [Mike Russo]

Nolan's late tally carries struggling Wild past Isles

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:22 -0500

ST. PAUL, Minn.(AP) Owen Nolan 's goal with 67 seconds remaining, his second of the game, sent the struggling Minnesota Wild to a 3-2 victory over the New York Islanders on Friday night.

Video: Owen Nolan's end-to-end, falling down goal vs. Bolts

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 23:07:30 -0500

Owen Nolan(notes) of the Minnesota Wild will turn 38 years old next February. Keep that in mind as you watch one of the better individual efforts we've seen from a goal-scorer this season, as Nolan goes coast-to-coast and finishes with style against the Tampa Bay Lightning: That was sixth-year pro David Hale(notes) that Nolan undressed with that move at the blueline, before toppling to the ice and clanging the puck home past Antero Niittymaki(notes). It was Nolan's fourth of the seaso...

Backchecking With ... Cal Clutterbuck

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:00 -0500

by Bruce CiskieFiled under: Wild, WesternWe get to know NHL players with five quick questions. Today's subject: Cal Clutterbuck, who set an NHL record for hits last season while irritating Don Cherry along the way.Backchecking With ... Cal Clutterbuck originally appeared on Fanhouse NHL Blog on Thu, 12 Nov 2009 15:00:00 EST . Please see our terms for use of feeds. Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments