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  • Wild Send Riley Heidt Back to Juniors

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    Thomas Williams

    By Thomas Williams -

    That's Wild

    • In their most recent round of cuts at training camp, the Minnesota Wild sent forward Riley Heidt back to the WHL. The 19-year-old dominated the league last season, but in his appearances through the preseason and camp, still appeared to be outmatched by the NHL. Heidt appears to be yet another victim of the NHL-CHL Agreement where he has to go back to juniors instead of turning pro and starting in the AHL at 19 years old. He has nothing left to learn in junior hockey and will score over 100 points yet again, or plateau. [NHL.com]
    • Freddy Gaudreau is one player that appears to be fairly revitalized after his offseason. [StarTribune]
    • The Wild should really benefit from a much richer farm system this year. Injuries are still a concern when they happen, but there is some young talent down in Iowa who could potentially replace some players. [Hockey Wilderness]

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    M_Nels

    Was excited to see him and was hoping he could compete for a roster spot but after watching him it was clear he wasn't ready yet. The only thing that sucks is he has to go back to the WHL instead of reporting to Iowa..stupid rule.

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    mnfaninnc

    The Wild could loan him to a European team, preferably Kumpulainen's team, if they wanted him playing against steeper competition.

    Well, I finally have internet back, it came back on late yesterday afternoon. Helene was expected to take a westerly turn and slam Atlanta head on, instead, it kept on trekking toward Charlotte. We were on the Northeast side, the side that gets most of the wind. They call it the dirty side. My neighborhood wasn't too bad but we lost power for about 32 hours, and internet for about 4 days. 

    April of 2023, we bought a generac generator hooked up directly to natural gas. Christmas of 2022, we had rolling blackouts in our area which were supposed to last for 1/2 and hour. Ours lasted for about 6 hours on Christmas eve, which took out all the celebrations while the temp was 9 degrees. While in MN, that doesn't seem like much, but around here, that's about as cold as it gets. This wasn't happening again.

    I hadn't got a chance to see how the generator worked since right after I got it they buried the power wires through our neighborhood and we haven't had a disruption of more than an hour. This thing worked great!!!! For us, it popped on in the middle of the night, it's a generator so it sounds about as loud as a motorcycle. Our life went on as normal except for the internet which was also down. 

    This is not political, but as we convert more energy to renewable sources, power loss is bound to get more common. I highly recommend getting the unit just in case if you have natural gas in your neighborhood. We've got a freezer full of meat that is usually stocked. We would have lost a load of it without this. And, usually, when the blackouts occur, the weather is not very good.

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