Article: The Wild Will Regress If They Can't Improve Their Anemic Offense

[MNCountryLife]

Danila Yurov out tonight.  🤕

That is too bad.  The young man has been playing well.  I wonder if it was that blocked shot on the foot that did it last game.

[MNCountryLife]

1 minute ago, goenzoy said:

If he returns and I believe its close they should let him play PK with Nico Sturm for a change

Interesting.

[Burnt Toast]

5 hours ago, mnfaninnc said:

OgZ in the S, Yurov in the K, Buium in the NCAAs, and The Wall partly in the S, but also in the A. 

Get this to rhyme and you might consider taking a run at “ Best New Rap Artist.” Quite remarkable actually. 

[OldDutchChip]

2 hours ago, MNCountryLife said:

Canucks, Preds and Flames all looking to unload talent for a high price.  I would think that BG would be tinkering with the roster to bring in a top 6 winger.  With only $3m to $4m of cap space he may need to be creative to pull it off.

Re CAP dollars - let's consider 

• Vlady - waiver gets us out of the 4.7MM or whatever is left
• Rossi has 5MM

seems like we could be players for a high end player? is there one available now?

Canucks, Preds and Flames should be in the sell mode and maybe STL too, but i'd wait and keep an eye out East

TOR, CBJ, NYR, NYI, DET, BUF you just never know how far some of these teams fall (I'll even add OTT and BOS)

The only issue is the parity of the East - where two WC teams sit at 31pts and then 5 teams are trying to catch them and are all within 3 pts.

I am hoping someone starts sliding so that we can have a better choice.....i am not too thrilled with the current options from the four teams in the West. but i don't know if we'll have any choice - the East is just a slug and maybe they'll all do nothing and hold on to their roster?

If possible i'd prefer these (again IF possible - hold the pitchforks!)

Pasta > Tkachuk > Larkin > Tage > Panarin > Marchenko > Horvat > Tuch > Kyrou > ROR > Stamy > Zucker!

[hydguy75]

32 minutes ago, OldDutchChip said:

Pasta > Tkachuk > Larkin > Tage > Panarin > Marchenko > Horvat > Tuch > Kyrou > ROR > Stamy > Zucker!

Given KK's lucrative contract for the next several years, we need to strategically consider his next Zucci sidekick for the long term.  Although not thrilled about waiting to see who tanks mid-season 2025-26 table scraps, however this is not a bad list to consider.  I'm thinking we're still missing 1-2 spark plugs for PO play.

[OldSchool]

3 hours ago, MNCountryLife said:

Danila Yurov out tonight.  🤕

That is too bad.  The young man has been playing well.  I wonder if it was that blocked shot on the foot that did it last game.

Russo reported today that Yurov's injury actually happened playing the Blackhawks, so 2 games ago. He did go with the team on the road trip however and it didn't sound like he'd be out very long.

[Pablo]

Since its a game of chaos and tough guys dancing on ice, the Wild are on pace for a deep playoff run. The goal tending isn't going away any time soon. But yeah, score more goals and win more games. Easy to do 👀🍾

[Patrick]

Buffalo didn't beat Gus with a single shot. Both goals bounced off of bodies after he had made a save. Zuccs "catch attempt" was the flukiest of flukes. 

The Wild have had all of their centers for ZERO games this year. If Rossi hadn't been hurt we wouldn't be talking about scoring depth. 

This entire article is desperately negative.

[bisopher]

When your goalies are on fire and your D is healthy, like the Wild are now, you can win low-event, low-scoring games.  When the Wild get Rossi, Yurov, Foligno, and even Hinostroza back from the injured list, our scoring should improve.

I'd file this under "Signs of a deep team that can win with multiple styles", rather than a sign of impending doom. 

[Fortis]

22 hours ago, MNCountryLife said:

I've mentioned before that we don't have a legit 2nd line.  Or more to the point.. we don't have 6 players that are legit top 6.  Yurov has played well and Zuc is proving that he can still play.  What happens if we move Rossi to wing when he returns.  Kirill, Yurov, Zuc / Rossi, Ek, Boldy is not a bad top 6....Is that a legit top 6 lineup?  It's close... or more to the point... getting close.

I‘ve always wanted to see Boldy at Center. He is responsible defensively and already on the PK1 line, can hold his own on faceoffs, and has the size and skills to excel in the middle and be a true #1 Center

Edited Wednesday at 03:31 PM by Fortis

[MNCountryLife]

1 hour ago, Fortis said:

I‘ve always wanted to see Boldy at Center. He is responsible defensively and already on the PK1 line, can hold his own on faceoffs, and has the size and skills to excel in the middle and be a true #1 Center

I've thought about that as well with Boldy.  He has all the tools.  My concern is that Boldy can score and the wingers in our system typically have more scoring oppurtinities.  Would his scoring decline if placed at center?  We don't have a lot of goal scorers on the team... 

[raithis]

On 12/3/2025 at 8:47 AM, Patrick said:

This entire article is desperately negative.

That pretty much sums up all Tom's articles.  He also likes to touch on the same topics over and over again, generally ignoring lots of evidence to the contrary just to state his narrative.

I don't want every article to be a glowing assessment of the team, but finding ways to beat the same dead horses over and over again is not good writing.

The worst part about Tom's articles is seeing this at the end and realizing that Hockey Wilderness thinks finding new ways to complain about the same things is worth paying someone for.  If he is the bar, the bar is pretty low.

"Think you could write a story like this?"

[Will D. Ness]

Tom has Minnesota sports PTSD.  Classic case.  He probably drinks Grain Belt too.  😀

[NoJoSux]

The Wild need to send out NoJo and either Ogie or Jiricek for Keefer Surewood. 

They might wanna get another young defenseman in case Hughes leaves. 

NoJo gotta go-go.