Alexandron

Just checked our schedule for this season. We are going to start it next week on pretty tough games against Florida Panthers(on Thursday, Oct.12)at home and against Toronto Maple Leafs (on Saturday, Oct.14) on a road. But against the teams from our Division we are going to start only on Nov.12 (a month later) against Dallas Stars on our home ice. Actually, Oct.12-Nov.12 period will be an intriguing period against difficult teams from other Divisions.

Wild training camp roster reduced to 31: https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/wild-reduces-training-camp-roster-to-31 And here is more about Maroon's future influence on our team. After reading this article ( https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/maroons-stanley-cup-experience ) I wish his presence at the Wild team at least for the next 4-5 seasons. Maybe he will finish his career in our club and will bring lots of his experience to our youngsters? And also, it seems, he is looking like a Hollywood star at the picture attached to this article.

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Wild re-signed Mats Zuccarello to 2-year ($8,250,000) contract extension, which goes through the 2025-26 season. https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/minnesota-wild-signs-mats-zuccarello-to-contract-extension As long as he has a nice chemistry with Kaprizov, probably, it is a pretty good deal. He is productive and very smart player to play with. Hopefully, that will help to hold Kaprizov to stay here too. Or maybe that was a main reason? Who knows. Yesterday he had 2 assists on 2 Kaprizov's goals in pre-season game against Colorado. We won that game with a score 4:2.

And also I think we have a better goalie (Gustavsson). Without him it will be more difficult to make playoffs for our team. Probably,so far, he is the best goalie in our Wild history. His NHL stats were outstanding last year. Hopefully, he will show this season similar play as he did last season. And hopefully also, we will see soon in a main club very talented prospect (Walker). Second year in a row he is impressing me with his play, which is very similar to Kaprizov's. His more recent records of the last week 5 goals, 1 hat trick, and 2 assists (7 points in 3 games). And Rossi maybe will start producing and will play smarter for the big club too. Entire summer he had a special individual training with coaches to prepare him for this season which I had never seen in our club. I also believe that our 2nd line Boldy-EEK-Johansson will make a solid impact in our production. All players of that line are very talented and very experienced.

I am more optimistic for this season results. We will make playoffs and will pass the 1st round. Dallas is a beatable team. We should pass the 1st round of the playoffs this season if we hadn't EEK injury, and control better Suter. Referees were not as good too, especially against Foligno, penalizing him for nothing multiple times.

I agree. Too high risk to place him earlier.

Interesting, if Bedard will play for Chicago team in both pre-season games against us?

Sammy Walker is shining so far. Smart player. He had a chance to repeat yesterday a hat trick again as he did against Chicago team during the Kurvers Prospects Showcase Tournament the week before. Hopefully we will see his play more. Next game is going to start at 7 p.m. tomorrow against Dallas team.

Here is more info regarding our training camp and pre-season schedule, which is going to start very soon (on Sunday, September 24th) at Colorado. https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/minnesota-wild-opens-training-camp-september-21-at-tria-rink https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/wild-camp-day-1

I am interested in this season too, because I think, it is going to be intriguing by using more youngsters as well as more tough players like Maroon; Khaira in addition to Foligno.

Here is a review of 2 games , which we had the last week at Tom Kurvers Prospects Showcase: against St.Louis (score was 1:5) https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/tk-showcase-recap-game-1 and against Chicago (score was 7:4) https://www.nhl.com/wild/news/tk-showcase-recap-game-2 The most productive in 2 games, in my opinion, was Sammy Walker who had 13 shots on goal ( 5 in the game#1 and 8 in game#2 ; hat trick and 1 assist).

According to a presented Wild roster, we are going to have pretty productive players as in offense as well as in defense. I do not think we had that before. It seems an interesting strategy for our new prospect team. Will see how it will work next week. Hopefully, well.

Agree. Most our players have a chance to play in different lines depending of their level of play during the game as well as depending of the coach decision too.

Here is a Minnesota Wild roster for Tom Kurvers prospect show case at Tria Rink from 09/15-09/17 against Chicago and St. Louis. All games will be streamed on YouTube channel. https://www.iowawild.com/news/detail/minnesota-wild-to-host-tom-kurvers-prospect-showcase-at-tria-rink-1

Here is a recent NHL Tonight interview with Matt Boldy. That video is also presenting our offensive lines for this season. It seems Gaudreau will play in the 4th line with Maroon and Dewar. Rossi will play as a center with Foligno and Duhaime in a 3rd line. 2nd line will have Boldy-EEK-Johansson. And 1st line will be unchanged Kaprizov-Hartman-Zuccarello. They also said that defenseman Klingberg is not going to play for the Wild. I just looked for him - he will play for Toronto. I think he was a pretty good player, but probably too expensive for us and Wild made a room for Faber. https://www.nhl.com/video/nhl-tonight-matt-boldy-wild-345708470

Interesting, what is Iowa Wild team will show us this season with a new coaching staff? Maybe the talents will bloom better there? Always a hope for a better success. Still believe into an axiom that a smart coaching staff is affecting well on the prospect's talent development which is an important part of the hockey sport.

Agree. Big adjustment. And Marco Rossi hit that wall too last season when played 19 games and then he was benched for a couples of weeks because he didn't want to go back to Iowa.

And again, more thoughts from Tony Abbott about Marco Rossi. Definitely Tony has a talent to present a different analytic view regarding our players. https://hockeywilderness.com/news-rumors/minnesota-wild/marco-rossi-has-to-overcome-everyone-elses-fears-r29542/

A new article came out from Tony Abbott on how to project/to predict a future Kaprizov's contract: https://hockeywilderness.com/news-rumors/minnesota-wild/does-auston-matthews-set-the-market-for-kirill-kaprizovs-next-deal-r29543/

Still not sure if properly constructed team will win the cup 99% of the time. Too high percentage for me. Probably 70% is a hard teamwork of properly constructed team and 30% is a luck of the team in placing crucial goals in opposing net as well as avoiding harmful injuries for themselves during playoffs run. An example was Florida Panthers this playoffs, who was able to beat Boston during the round#1 (Bruins was the best team in entire NHL history in wins during this regular season), then Panthers were able to beat Toronto (one of the best productive team in NHL) during the round#2; and then they were able to beat Carolina during the round#3, which is also the best real Cup contender NHL team. Then Tkachuk got an injury during the final round against Vegas and that was it. I am also thinking that Vegas (Cup winner this season) didn't have as tough teams as Panthers had during their travel to the top of the win. But still Vegas success since they became an NHL team (6 years ago) should be carefully studied, especially all playoffs' seasons. What is their secret?

. What is common between words "Minnesota Twins" and "Minnesota Wild"? The word "Minnesota". I really want to see the word "Minnesota" to be written "MINNESOTA" that every hockey media will talk about Wild as a real cup contender, but not a ballast for the 1st round playoffs as usual we are. We lost these playoffs season an absolutely nice chance to beat Dallas team, but we didn't. We were not able to control Suter, who cruelly blocked previously injured Kaprizov entire round#1. Where was Reaves during that entire round#1? Practically invisible. And Foligno has got multiple penalties for nothing during that time. Not acceptable judge from unprofessional referees during same entire round#1. Hope Maroon will show how to protect crucial players for this game. His role for this club should be enormous. I do not think we had anything of that level before.

I am surprised that in 3 weeks the other 2 new interesting articles came regarding a nice potential of our 2 promising prospects: Marat Khusnutdinov: https://hockeywilderness.com/news-rumors/minnesota-wild/marat-khusnutdinov-can-hit-the-ground-running-next-year-r29539/ and Danila Iurov: https://hockeywilderness.com/news-rumors/minnesota-wild/danila-yurov-is-the-whole-package-and-arriving-soon-r29530/ It seems both have a chance to come to us next season, sooner than it was predicted.

I think you are right. Interesting, I watched on YouTube a couple hours ago that commentators predicted a very promising trio in the Wild club for 2025-26 season Kaprizov-Yurov-Khusnutdinov. Their info was based on the "Athletic" info. And this way Wild will hold Kaprizov to stay here. Agree also regarding Ohgren. It seems very nice potential for that player too.

Probably with that Arizona sign for Dumba, we will be able to sign Addison. I do not know why , but now I have more feelings that with Maroon on our team and current roster we will pass next season at least 2 playoffs rounds. Usually Maroon brings more luck to the teams where he plays . And a better protection. Tampa is an example. We will see for our team of 2023-24 season, but it is always a hope for a better success.