TonyOday

If it looks like the Wild are not going to make the playoffs in late Feb Fenton will trade Staal, Granlund, Zucker and Coyle.

Is this Coyle here to stay or just another tantalizing tease of what he could be then he disappears for the rest of the year?

The pace is increasing. Team looks good. Love when this team sticks up for itself.

Kind of surprised TSN has us ranked so high: [Hidden Content]

Nice road trip. Have to bank these points for the January swoon.

I think our 4th line with Foligno and Fehr has played well, added some punch and some grit. I think, unfortunately, our playoff hopes ride or die with how many points Ek, Nino and Coyle put up and that should give the Wild heart attacks.

Seems about right for this team. Our defense is looking nice and I like the sandpaper on the third pair. Cannot wait until we find out what is wrong with Nino.

Loving Brown's grit.

Not a lot of sandpaper tonight. This team will live and die on the Third Line. Our top two lines can compete with any in the game but we need 45 goals from Greenway, Ek and Coyle...

Aw man we suck again!

Stanley Cup here we come!

We will see two fights.

Staal - 18 Zucker - 42 Niederrieter - 34 Parise - 28 Granlund - 20 Coyle - 24 Dumba - 14 Koivu - 9 Ek - 8 Greenway - 19 Spurgeon - 8 Foligno - 4 Suter - 7 Brodin - 6 Brown - 5 Kunin - 11 Kloos - 4 Fehr - 4 Hendricks - 3 Read - 3 Rau - 8 Seeler - 2 Pateryn - 1 Prosser - 3

The USA Today writing about hockey has about as much cred as me writing a paper on helium molecules in an excited state.