By Tony Abbott -
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaah!
So yeah, the Wild played a really good game. Very shaky at the end, but I'm totally willing to look that over with the awesome 4-goal output tonight. I mean seriously?! Four goals? Now, people are gonna be like, "The anemic Wild offense averages 2.15 goals per game" instead of "The anemic Wild offense averages 2.06 goals per game." It's a great feeling.
Wild News
Wild weathers a storm in Phoenix, hangs on to win 4-3 | StarTribune.com- Russo's Gamer.
Wild scores four goals, moves into top-8 in the West | StarTribune.com- Russo's game blog. Bit of analysis. Some quotes.
Heatley's pair of goals gives Wild the edge as they hold on for a 4-3 road win over Phoenix- Derek with his excellent (as usual recap)- updates on Graovac and Bussieres, too.
Hitting The Post: Post-Game Haiku Reax: Wild @ Dooshyotes, 2/28/13- A series of recap haikus- complete with many, many uses of the word "douche", but misspelled.
Wild's Coyle gets break, this time, for his high hit on Stajan | StarTribune.com- I loved Coyle's reaction to his talk with Shanahan. Nice to see players get excited about the
Minnesota Wild: Faceoff skills give them an edge - TwinCities.com- A briefing on how the Wild have actually been pretty good at faceoffs. A welcome change from the past.
Ryan Suter Not Holding Up Deal With Minnesota Wild- RantSports- No. This article wasn't selected because of it's awesome quality, but rather, a plea from me to you readers to email this guy to tell him it's not three weeks ago, anymore.
Does Ryan Suter Deserve Norris Trophy Consideration? - Gone Puck Wild- Still no, but Dakota considers the entire season in this article. But just because I disagree with the article (the slow start is still encompassing half the season so far), doesn't mean it's not a good article.
Tending the Fields
Star Wars night at Solar Bears game - OrlandoSentinel.com- I'll leave the pun-heavy responses to you guys in the comments. Not a big enough Star Wars guy to make the best ones, anyway.
Off the Trail
Avalanche match Flames’ offer sheet; O’Reilly prepares for awkward return to Colorado | Puck Daddy - Yahoo! Sports- So there's that. Still big news, htough, as the ugliest and most embarrassing contract dispute is being cleared up, and Colorado should no doubt gain a boost from O'Reilly coming into the team, whom the Avs are going to need to have a prayer at making the postseason.
Fun fact: there’s plus/minus etiquette amongst teammates in pro hockey | Backhand Shelf | Blogs | theScore.com- Justin Bourne, who's killing it lately, gives some insight on player line changing for plus-minus purposes.
Which NHL Coach (or GM!) Is Getting Fired Next? - The Triangle Blog - Grantland- Sean McIndoe looks at the hot seat around the league.
Unexpected candidates for NHL awards | Backhand Shelf | Blogs | theScore.com- A fun awards article, by virtue of not having the Same. Damn. Names. Over. And. Over. Again.
Enemy News
For Anaheim Ducks news and analysis, please make sure to visit our friends over at Anaheim Calling Here's their game stream.
Us against the fenwick and the world - Battle of California- Yeah, it appears that the Ducks have the same Corsi problem the Wild had last year. Watch the statheads say "I told you so" when the Ducks drop out of first place when Getzlaf, Perry, Ryan, and Selanne suffer injuries.
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