Sorry it's so late. No access to the internets until right now.

Anyway, it's opening day! Can you feel the excitement in the air? It's palpable.

Let's get to the links:

• Blue Jackets vs. Wild - 10/08/2011 - Minnesota Wild - Preview And away we go with season number 11. In many ways, the beginning of this season is as different as any of the previous 10 in the Minnesota Wild’s history.
• Minnesota Wild coach Mike Yeo is rigidly true to his core values - TwinCities.com Mike Yeo was 17, in his first season of playing junior hockey in Sudbury, Ontario, when a mutual friend introduced him to his future wife. Tanya was 14 months younger, but her parents didnt have to worry. He made sure of it.
• Game 2 Preview: Let's Try That Again - The Cannon Our preview of tonight's matchup vs. the Minnesota WIld, with both teams looking for the first win of the season...
• Nerves, but no hard feelings, as Richards returns to Xcel | StarTribune.com With clammy hands and a sweaty brow, Todd Richards will walk into Xcel Energy Center on Saturday for the first time since being fired in April as the Wild's coach
• Years of sortable clutter helped forge Yeo's NHL dream | StarTribune.com Mike Yeo pulls out a great big dusty bin filled with manila and olive green folders 
• Game Day: Wild | BlueJackets Xtra Is the Minnesota Wild better with Danny Heatley and Devin Setoguchi in the lineup instead of Martin Havlat and Brent Burns?