Wilderness Walk for 12-23-2010: Game Day Edition

by BReynolds on Dec 23, 2010 9:51 AM CST in Wilderness Walks

Hey, hey, it's game day! Indeed, folks, the Wild play tonight... on Christmas eve eve for those of you keeping track at home. Sounds like everyone made it to the hotel OK, after taking a scenic tour of Colorado fields and malls along the way.

This also marks a chance for all of you to release a little tension at the expense of someone who may or may not have indicated that the Wild "would love to be rid" of Martin Havlat, and are "nervous" about MIkko Koivu's deal. Yes, the Avs are covered by Mr. Dater, and he will be covering the game this evening. Feel free to vent your frustrations here.

Until game time, head to Facebook for the Question of the Day, and if you have any holiday encounters that are even slightly hockey related, please send them in for the HWRG2000.

Just a warning, I will not be around this evening. As much as I want to unleash the snark, I have family in town and must be absent. Le sigh.

Wild News

Wild coach says Barker needs more bite | StarTribune.com - More bite, indeed. Hell, at this point, I think we settle for a heartbeat.

Minnesota Wild need Cam Barker to regain scoring touch - TwinCities.com - Scoring? SCORING? OK, scoring would be great, but still... scoring? How about anything? Anything at all. Even a mean look...

Enemy News

Usually I would link to the Colorado newspaper and their beat writer, but it seems he has given up his career to work for HockeyBuzz. Interesting decision.

Mile High Hockey - SBNation's home for Colorado Avalanche coverage.

KiPA's Korner

Hitting The Post: Crosby, Crawford continue to shine - Funny enough, I have both players on one of my fantasy teams. Niiice.

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Granlund

Can we get an update on him sometine? He was ripping it up over in Finland and then I heard/read that he was hurt, any details on that or how he is doing?

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by JMarushin on Dec 23, 2010 10:34 AM CST reply actions

he was cleared to return to action for his Finnish team, but is skipping the WJC.

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by BReynolds on Dec 23, 2010 1:51 PM CST up reply actions

ahh ok thanks

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by JMarushin on Dec 24, 2010 1:17 PM CST up reply actions

Barker

I’d be fine seeing millions of dollars sitting in the press box the rest of the year. The 2008-2009 season was obviously a fluke.
By the way what ever happened to Falk? Was he not cutting it or are we just giving him more game situations in Houston? I do remember he was told he could move out of his hotel room up here.

by HonorableH on Dec 23, 2010 10:35 AM CST reply actions

Must have been

I want Richards to sit him for at least one more game after this one, and then possibly give him a trial run, if he doesn’t cut it he can sit for longer. We pay him too much to play like a rookie, I’d rather have Spurgeon and Stoner play that way and pay them less because they are learning,.Barker knows how it works he’s been in the playoffs.

I hope get more Scandella, can’t wait to see him play in the NHL full time!

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by Jilliette on Dec 23, 2010 12:23 PM CST up reply actions

Falk is back in Houston, getting top minutes in all situations, rather than playing third pairing minutes here. As for the moving thing, the NHL mandates that players be allowed to move out of a hotel after 28 days.

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by BReynolds on Dec 23, 2010 1:53 PM CST up reply actions

Is someone going to ask Mr. Dater about his sources? or are we just going to ignore him like always?

by Givinchy on Dec 23, 2010 11:03 AM CST reply actions

I did. He says he has them, but won’t cough them up. I assume it is a concessions guy at the Pepsi Center.

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by BReynolds on Dec 23, 2010 1:53 PM CST up reply actions

I believe Mr. Reynolds pressed Dater for his sources, and recieved “You’re an idiot” as a response.

(This was the book report version of the Twitter conversation)

by gunslinger1 on Dec 23, 2010 11:17 AM CST reply actions

yep

I can confirm that was the case, saw it with my own eyes.

Mr. Dater when calling someone an idiot, it might be an idea to do it through a DM instead of out in the open were the world can see that you have no source but to hurl insults.

Just an idea.

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by Jilliette on Dec 23, 2010 12:19 PM CST up reply actions

Indeed. I am an idiot according to the guy who thinks the Wild would love to be rid of their leading scorer, and are nervous about signing Koivu to a contract extension. Yeah, but I’m the idiot. Riiight.

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by BReynolds on Dec 23, 2010 1:54 PM CST up reply actions

Any discussion about the game tonight?

by tuck321 on Dec 23, 2010 3:46 PM CST reply actions

Nope ;-)

The Wild play a team that isn’t the Flames tonight. It will be interesting to see if the last two wins were anything but just that. The way it goes in Colorado, I won’t be surprised by anything…

by redheadzeb on Dec 23, 2010 3:52 PM CST up reply actions