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Mileposts and Goalposts: December 2013
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Wild about hockey, as always. Sunday, December 29, 2013. Wild needs: Sweep the Week. Have played themselves into a corner. They need to sweep this week's 4 upcoming home games. Or else, ? The facts are clear. Clear as mud, granted. But they are clear. The Wild cannot win a game away from the. Of St Paul. And for a team as talent-laden as this one is, that's not a good thing. In order to achieve anything, like what the management and ownership wants them to achieve. At home; and losing 6 of the seven road...
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Mileposts and Goalposts: February 2014
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Wild about hockey, as always. Monday, February 3, 2014. Muddling along, Wild heads for Olympic break. After a 9-4-1 January, the. Head into the Olympic break after two games this week against very different opponents. The Wild still have three games (two at home) vs. St. Louis; one game (April 3) at Chicago, and are finished (thankfully) with the Colorado Avalanche. Chicago still has two games (one home, one away) with the speedy Avs; St. Louis also still has two games (one home, one away...And that's al...
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Mileposts and Goalposts: November 2013
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Wild about hockey, as always. Saturday, November 30, 2013. Into the abyss: the dreaded 'Yeo Woe'? Fans wonder why their team gets no love or respect; weeks like the last two are reasons why they will not be eligible for NHL prime events, like the NHL Winter Classic. Until they can do one thing consistently: win. Some things, like the calendar, happen at the same time every year:. The swallows return to San Juan Capistrano, Calif. The buzzards return to Hinckley, Ohio. And Wild owner/CEO Craig Leipold.
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Mileposts and Goalposts: November 2014
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Wild about hockey, as always. Wednesday, November 26, 2014. Things to be thankful for.and, not so much. Five things to be thankful for this Minnesota Wild. Season.and a couple that we're having second thoughts about. Let us try and be thankful for what NHL hockey fans in Minnesota have right now. Because, it could be much, much worse. 1 The play of Zach Parise. Seems to have overcome the mumps and may be back for duty this weekend, vs. St. Louis on Saturday night. As the team's leading scorer, is a welco...
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Mileposts and Goalposts: June 2014
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Wild about hockey, as always. Monday, June 30, 2014. Calm before the storm.sort of. Free Agency looms as Minnesota Wild. Ponder their options in short, long term. It's June 30th. The last day before the start of NHL. Free Agency, also known as 'Silly Season', where teams outbid each other for the services of veterans whose contracts expired the previous day (i.e., today). Has stockpiled over the last four seasons, while trying to resurrect the franchise after the disaster left behind by Doug Risebrough.
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Mileposts and Goalposts: The Woe that is Yeo
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Wild about hockey, as always. Friday, January 9, 2015. The Woe that is Yeo. Goaltending woes, lazy play doom. To hockey's scrap heap, as season drags on. By Wild Road Tripper. Let's all face the reality of the situation, folks. The Minnesota Wild. Probably will not make the NHL playoffs this season. The problems, in my humble opinion, are:. Between the two current goalies (. Darcy Kuemper, Niklas Backstrom. S last two games vs. the Wild. The fact that one team (. Is continually allowed to beat up the def...
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Mileposts and Goalposts: All-Star Break: For fans and players alike
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Wild about hockey, as always. Friday, January 23, 2015. All-Star Break: For fans and players alike. In this season of almost unbelievable swings of fate, do the Hockey Gods have more woe in store for Minnesota Wild. Or, does the pendulum begin swinging the other way, towards the miracle of a playoff spot? You just don't make the playoffs with your goal filling up like that. It just doesn't happen. Now, the future: After the All-Star break, 7 of the next 12 games are against former Northwest Division foes...
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Mileposts and Goalposts: After the Fall: Wild post-mortem (Part I)
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Wild about hockey, as always. Saturday, May 23, 2015. After the Fall: Wild post-mortem (Part I). Well, the Minnesota Wild. Season is over. Has been for about two weeks now. Do we dare look back, and at least try to smile, after a season when a goaltender managed to single-handedly turn Chicken(bleep) into Chicken salad, only to get crushed like a pan pizza, against the Chicago Blackhawks. The Wild in 2014-15 is the tale of two seasons; pre-January 14, and January 15 and afterwards. Players thinking the g...
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Mileposts and Goalposts: Been there, done that. Doing them all...
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Wild about hockey, as always. Thursday, January 15, 2015. Been there, done that. Doing them all. As the song says.'I've been everywhere, man.'. That's right. I've done all 30 NHL arenas currently in use by member clubs. And all of them to see the Minnesota Wild. And then, there was this past week. Yeah. It was absolutely yucky. And I'm not talking weather. But, it wasn't all bad. Lou Molnati's pizza in Chicago, and the massive Veal Parmesan from Big Jim's in the Run in Pittsburgh (it filled a platter!
