Wilderness Walk: An Old Favorite

What’s more: Minnesota United FC make their final bid to join the NASL playoffs tonight, playing their final game at the National Sports Center, the Loons’ home the past several years. If you aren’t going to the X, swing up to Blaine and bid adieu to a fine old stadium.

With a goodbye to one old favorite, we toast NSC (or Nessie) with one of my favorites:

Wild News

Minnesota Wild: Pulkkinen Placed on Waivers to Be Assigned to Iowa | Gone Puck Wild
Here's hoping the Wild don't grow to regret this.

Minnesota Wild: Eriksson-Ek Has Made the Case to Stay | Gone Puck Wild
I still say give some other guys a try to stall having to make the call, but he's been somewhere between good and great.

The Twisted Logic of Waiving Teemu Pulkkinen | The Hockey Writers
Dustin tries to make sense of GMCF's logic.

Wild place Teemu Pulkinnen on waivers | Twincities.com
A few weeks after claiming him, the Wild put winger Teemu Pulkinnen back on waivers Friday morning.

Wild practice report: Spurgeon back, Scandella likely out | StarTribune.com
After returning home from back-to-back shutout victories on the road, the Wild held an optional practice Friday at Xcel.

Wild rookie Eriksson Ek slow to smile, quick to score | StarTribune.com
Serious and focused, rookie Joel Eriksson Ek already is proving to be a quick study. Now about those goal celebrations ...

Off the Trail

Hey Oilers! Taylor Hall is Watching | The Hockey Writers
Taylor had no qualms about expressing his displeasure over the trade. He wanted to stay and he never complained during the bad times.

USA, Canada to meet outdoors at 2018 world juniors | theScore.com
The United States and Canada will take their long-standing junior rivalry outdoors for the first time at the 2018 World Junior Hockey Championship in Buffalo.