All Things 2025-26 Minnesota Wild Season Thread

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From the Parkinglot said:
There better be a fire sale at the deadline. This is gonna be such a long winter with wild, gopher hockey, wolves, and gopher basketball.
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I may have overreacted with this team. Now the other teams listed are still not good.

Now we know the twins had a 13 game wining streak too and the other 149 games did not go well.
 


From the Parkinglot said:
I may have overreacted with this team. Now the other teams listed are still not good.

Now we know the twins had a 13 game wining streak too and the other 149 games did not go well.
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Completely different organization compared to the cheap Twins
 


NOTES: Wallstedt is the second rookie goalie in the NHL’s expansion era (since 1967-68) to post three shutouts through his first eight games of a season, joining Martin Jones (three in six games in 2013-14). He also leads the NHL in save-percentage (.935), and goals-against average (1.94). … Faber (23 years, 93 days) became the youngest defenseman in Wild history to score a short-handed goal.

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Damn. Wild outshot by the Blackhawks 20-5 in the first period.

You don't see that everyday. 0-0 after the first though!
 

How on the world did Minnesota win that game while getting outplay for most of the game. Won in OT.
 





TRF Guy said:
How? Goaltending and 5 posts hit by the Hawks
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I had another lengthy SOG parlay working last night and incredibly, KK97 hadn't had a single SOG at the end of regulation. I had to sweat that one out. I did have Boldy with a PP point which cashed as well.
 

The Athletic put out an article today on the one trade each franchise would most love to UNDO if they could. This is what Russo came up with for the Wild:

Brent Burns and 2012 second-round pick for Devin Setoguchi, Charlie Coyle and 2011 first-round pick (2011)

"There are so many Wild trades to choose from, with a particular runner-up being the deal to send Alex Tuch to Vegas to “protect” unprotected players in the Golden Knights’ expansion draft. In 2011, Burns was a budding star coming up on a payday, and it was the same summer the Wild planned on twin $98 million contracts for Zach Parise and Ryan Suter. Burns would become a Norris Trophy winner, a star offensive defenseman and a future Hall of Famer. Had Zack Phillips, whom the Wild took with the pick they got in the deal, amounted to anything, this trade would be a little more digestible. — Michael Russo"

As a VGK fan, I sure do appreciate the Wild asking Vegas to take Erik Haula, and giving Vegas Alex Tuch and a conditional 3rd round pick in return for that selection. Haula was one of the better players helping Vegas to the SC Final in their inaugural season and Tuch became a VGK favorite before sending him to Buffalo in order to acquire Jack Eichel.

Tuch should cash in this coming offseason, regardless of where he signs. He hasn't been a superstar with Buffalo, but he's a pretty damn good player. As a western NY native and an important player in the locker room, combined with some desperation, I can see Buffalo overpaying Tuch and probably by a lot. Bad franchises make bad moves.
 

Minnesota take down Colorado in a shootout. the best game of the day so far.
 



Wild played great today. Excellent game. Wallstedt very good.
 




TRF Guy said:
www.nhl.com

Wallstedt named NHL Rookie of the Month for November | NHL.com

Wild goalie went 6-0-0, had .967 save percentage and 3 shutouts
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About three (3) weeks ago, the Wild held the 3rd best 2026 Draft Lottery odds in the league. Today, they are projected to have the 26th Pick in the 2026 Draft.

Amazing turnaround and a lot of that credit goes to "The Wall of St. Paul" as my nieces call him. Certainly a tip of the cap is deserved for the team and coaching staff, too. Hopefully they can keep it going!
 

Slim Tubby said:
About three (3) weeks ago, the Wild held the 3rd best 2026 Draft Lottery odds in the league. Today, they are projected to have the 26th Pick in the 2026 Draft.

Amazing turnaround and a lot of that credit goes to "The Wall of St. Paul" as my nieces call him. Certainly a tip of the cap is deserved for the team and coaching staff, too. Hopefully they can keep it going!
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Gophers1992 said:
I'm no VGK defender but he was found not guilty in a court of law, plain and simple. It sounds like if he was guilty of anything it's putting himself in a situation where something worse could have happened, but if we're going to crucify everyone who did that as a teenager then we're all in trouble.
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Carter Hart appears to be making his VGK debut tonight at The Fortress against Chicago. Again, Vegas fans aren't the most hockey-educated bunch so we'll see what the reaction is. The reaction to the games he played in his conditional loan to the AHL squad he was very well received, lots of cheers even.

At the end of the day, like anything else in any vocation or job on the planet; does your talent outweigh your baggage? Play well and hopefully put most of this in the rear view mirror. It'll get air time on all the hockey pre-game shows today though, for sure.
 

Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
Carter Hart appears to be making his VGK debut tonight at The Fortress against Chicago. Again, Vegas fans aren't the most hockey-educated bunch so we'll see what the reaction is. The reaction to the games he played in his conditional loan to the AHL squad he was very well received, lots of cheers even.

At the end of the day, like anything else in any vocation or job on the planet; does your talent outweigh your baggage? Play well and hopefully put most of this in the rear view mirror. It'll get air time on all the hockey pre-game shows today though, for sure.
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If there are any organizations in the NHL that can handle this type of situation deftly, it's definitely LV or COL.
 

Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
Carter Hart appears to be making his VGK debut tonight at The Fortress against Chicago. Again, Vegas fans aren't the most hockey-educated bunch so we'll see what the reaction is. The reaction to the games he played in his conditional loan to the AHL squad he was very well received, lots of cheers even.

At the end of the day, like anything else in any vocation or job on the planet; does your talent outweigh your baggage? Play well and hopefully put most of this in the rear view mirror. It'll get air time on all the hockey pre-game shows today though, for sure.
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Would assume he’s just there to eat some minutes for now. The numbers down in the AHL have been baaaaaaad
 

upnorthkid said:
Would assume he’s just there to eat some minutes for now. The numbers down in the AHL have been baaaaaaad
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I've watched most of his minutes and I actually think he's looked solid. One game, he either had a shutout going, or was up like 4-1 with 5 minutes left and the team in front of him thought the game was over, the last 5 minutes being chaos and made it closer than it really was. The last game out, first two goals were PP goals, another that came from the point screened by like 5 people, and a tip-in to end things late in the 3rd.

And honestly, the HSK defense has been NOT good for a few years now. The defense he'll get in front of him with the VGK will be a lot better.

Schmid has been playing solid filling in for starter Adin Hill, who has been out since early in the season and it sounds like he'll be out for quite a while longer. Fairly significant injury. Schmid and Hart will split the load, we'll see who is better. At the end of the day, Hart has played a lot of NHL hockey and I think he'll be fine.

Vegas has been basically kinda blah all year; not terrible, not great, and losing an absolutely EPIC number of playoff games, which is a statistical anomaly really. Hard to see that continuing on the current pace. 8 OT losses already, for a team that I think has never lost more than 10 or 11 in a season? 8 out of 25 total games so far lost in OT, that's just plain nuts
 



TRF Guy said:
4 shutouts now for the Wall. Unbelievable
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Granger is a VGK beat writer, but writes a TON of articles for The Athletic relating to goalies; he's a goalie himself and has a good handle on the position and he's a good X/Twitter follow for anyone interested.

 

Slim Tubby said:
About three (3) weeks ago, the Wild held the 3rd best 2026 Draft Lottery odds in the league. Today, they are projected to have the 26th Pick in the 2026 Draft.

Amazing turnaround and a lot of that credit goes to "The Wall of St. Paul" as my nieces call him. Certainly a tip of the cap is deserved for the team and coaching staff, too. Hopefully they can keep it going!
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If there was ever a year for the Wild to do something, this should really be a good year for it.

Nobody in the Western Conf seems interested in playing very good hockey right now, outside of Colorado and maybe Dallas; everyone is floundering and trying to find their way as we hit the 1/3 point of the season.

At this time last year, the Wild were #1 in the Western Conf and ended up scrambling for one of the final WC spots 4 months later. The season is a big long grind, let's hope they can keep it together for the long haul
 



Ogie Ogilthorpe said:
If there was ever a year for the Wild to do something, this should really be a good year for it.

Nobody in the Western Conf seems interested in playing very good hockey right now, outside of Colorado and maybe Dallas; everyone is floundering and trying to find their way as we hit the 1/3 point of the season.

At this time last year, the Wild were #1 in the Western Conf and ended up scrambling for one of the final WC spots 4 months later. The season is a big long grind, let's hope they can keep it together for the long haul
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There slide began when #97 went down. Hopefully that doesn’t happen again
 

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