All Things 2025-26 Minnesota Wild Season Thread

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Wild lose to the Leafs 4-2. Missed opportunities to score in the 1st came back to haunt them big time in the 2nd period. Kaprizov continues to play a perimeter game. 3 losses in a row on home ice to non-playoff teams is bad no matter how you slice it
 

TRF Guy said:
Wild lose to the Leafs 4-2. Missed opportunities to score in the 1st came back to haunt them big time in the 2nd period. Kaprizov continues to play a perimeter game. 3 losses in a row on home ice to non-playoff teams is bad no matter how you slice it
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Pat chimes in:

Wrong about the Wild?​

There was a recent guarantee that our Wild-ings were headed for a second-round showdown with Colorado, guaranteeing a first playoff series win (presumably over Dallas) for our fellas since 2015. There were several messages to me that followed, stating: The Wild did not have the goaltending to get it done. And now three consecutive losses, with Filip Gustavsson and Jesper Wallstedt both being shaky. My confidence isn’t gone; it is rattled.


Gooo Wild!!
 

I wonder if he watched Colorado give up 7 on 20 shots to Pittsburgh
 

upnorthkid said:
I wonder if he watched Colorado give up 7 on 20 shots to Pittsburgh
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I’m aware. Wedgwood did me no favors in my semi final round of fantasy. He was pulled after 4th goal
 


BleedGopher said:
Pat chimes in:

Wrong about the Wild?​

There was a recent guarantee that our Wild-ings were headed for a second-round showdown with Colorado, guaranteeing a first playoff series win (presumably over Dallas) for our fellas since 2015. There were several messages to me that followed, stating: The Wild did not have the goaltending to get it done. And now three consecutive losses, with Filip Gustavsson and Jesper Wallstedt both being shaky. My confidence isn’t gone; it is rattled.


Gooo Wild!!
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Wow. I had no clue that Reusse was still employed by the STrib.
 

Yikes. An already very weak Pacific Division just got weaker.

 


Wild up 3-1 after 20. Shots 17-7 Wild. It’s been awhile now they need to finish it
 





The Wild lose again. It is too funny. This is what happens when you go to the White House and shake hands with the orange excrement.
 

This team. Can’t beat non playoff teams but can beat the second best team in the league. Make it make sense

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Outstanding 4-minute long penalty kill in the 3rd helped get the team to overtime. Bobby Brink adds an offensive spark with a goal and an assist in the victory. Filip Gustavsson was superb with 26+ saves.
 

That was a great hockey game to be at today. This is gonna be a fun playoffs this year.
 

Very sad news here. Jessi Piercewas the nhl.com writer for the Wild. Also did some podcasts.

 


Wild projected lineup
Kirill Kaprizov -- Ryan Hartman -- Mats Zuccarello
Marcus Johansson -- Joel Eriksson Ek -- Matt Boldy
Vladimir Tarasenko - Danila Yurov -- Bobby Brink
Nick Foligno -- Michael McCarron -- Yakov Trenin

Quinn Hughes -- Jared Spurgeon
Jonas Brodin -- Brock Faber
Jake Middleton -- Zach Bogosian

Filip Gustavsson
Jesper Wallstedt

Scratched: Daemon Hunt, Jeff Petry, Hunter Haight, Robby Fabbri, Nico Sturm
Injured: Marcus Foligno (lower body)

Lightning projected lineup
Brandon Hagel -- Anthony Cirelli -- Nikita Kucherov
Gage Gonclaves -- Brayden Point -- Jake Guentzel
Zemgus Girgensons -- Yanni Gourde -- Pontus Holmberg
Corey Perry -- Nick Paul -- Oliver Bjorkstrand

Darren Raddysh -- J.J. Moser
Victor Hedman -- Erik Cernak
Ryan McDonagh -- Charle-Edouard D’Astous

Andrei Vasilevskiy
Jonas Johansson

Scratched: Scott Sabourin, Steve Santini, Emil Lilleberg
Injured: Declan Carlile (undisclosed), Maxwell Crozier (core muscle), Dominic James (lower body)

Status report
Kaprizov and Eriksson Ek each will be back in the lineup; Kaprizov missed two games and Eriksson Ek missed three. ... Marcus Foligno is doubtful, but the forward, who will miss his 12th straight game, is likely to return during the Wild's three-game road trip, which continues at the Florida Panthers on Thursday. ... Hedman is likely to return after missing a 4-3 overtime loss at the Calgary Flames on Sunday because of an illness
 

Zucc scores early to make it 1-0 and McCarron destroyed Perry with a nice upper cut. Probably broke his nose
 

That was a fun period. Wild up 2-0 with both on power plays and 2-0 in fights. Nick Foligno got the better of Sabourin
 


3-3 heading to the third. Lightning have been the better team. Need to stay out of the box
 

I can’t stand Tampa. They are such a bunch of whinnie B words. Also the TNT crew just loves them some Tampa.
 



Wild are going no where this year.
Team has skill, but they don't have that killer instinct
 

Wally said:
Wild are going no where this year.
Team has skill, but they don't have that killer instinct
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Did they have that killer instinct a month ago when they were in the middle of the run to get to the top 3 of the conference?

This comment smells of recency bias.
 


I’m starting to think the Kaprizov contract may bite then in the ass like the Suter/Parise contracts. He’s been invisible for nearly a month now. Yes he missed 2 games recently due to injury but I got to think he’s still injured. If not then he needs to get his shit together
 
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WTF?

I leave to let the dog out assuming we’re headed to OT after giving up a late goal and the game was over when I came back downstairs 🤦
 

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