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My Enemy's Enemy Is My Stadium Buddy, Or Not
The on-field struggles for the Minnesota Vikings are over until next season revs up, but the off-field struggles to obtain a deal for a new stadium continue like a kind of political soap opera. And, like a soap opera, there are myriad interests at play over this single issue, making for some very...
The 2011 NHL Entry Draft Open Thread
WHERE: Excel Energy Center, St. Paul, MinnesotaWHEN: 7 PM EDTMEDIA: Versus (day one), NHL Network (day two) The Tampa Bay Lightning will not be selecting until late in teh 1st round -- unless there is player movement involved. Regardless, we are live here tonight for the Raw Charge NHL draft open...
Bits: Wheeling, Dealing and Drafting
It's here! IT'S HERE!!!11 Draft day has finally arrived and Islander country is excited! Another piece to the puzzle, tool for the toolbox and hopefully another bit of magic worked by Garth Snow and staff for us to ponder and explore for the next couple of seasons. Many feel the Isles are on...
2011 Hobey Baker Award Ceremony On ESPNU Tonight (Cam Atkinson Hardware Watch)
Best of luck to BC's Cam Atkinson tonight, as he attempts to become just the third Boston College player to win the Hobey Baker Award. The Hobey will be presented live tonight at 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPNU from the XCel Energy Center in St. Paul. Atkinson joins North Dakota's Matt Frattin and Miami's...
Morning Skate: Man-tuzzi vs. Wild
First off, the Man-tuzzi part references our friends at The Production Line's awesome post about the sightings of Man-Tuzzi (or Todd Bertuzzi) and the Wild part references...well, the Wild. Wings travel to Minna-soh-tah to take on a Wild team that is still dangerous despite the departure of Marian...
Wild to open up camp across the river
The Wild announced that the team will open training camp in Grand Forks, North Dakota at Ralph Engelstad Arena on September 20th because the Xcel will not be back to "normal" after hosting the Republican National Convention at the beginning of September. I sort of thought the X might not be ready...
Xcel Energy Center bustling with Minnesota Wild development camp
If you read my Important Dates Fanshots entry then you know that the Minnesota Wild is in the middle of their annual Development camp. In fact, the Xcel Energy Center has been a flurry of hockey activity. A lot (27, actually) of the young Minnesota Wild players and prospects laced up their skates...
Minnesota Wild Home Game Crowd not Intimidating
There is one other thing that irritates me about the before mentioned photo banner and about attending Minnesota Wild games in general – when you look around the arena, there is no unity. The Minnesota Wild has changed their primary colors twice in the past 7 years, so the “home...
Minnesota Wild Playoff Tickets
Minnesota Wild playoff tickets go on sale tomorrow to the general public. There is no doubt in my mind that the tickets will go really fast. There are already people camped outside of the Xcel Energy Center, they have been there since yesterday. Do you believe it? Only in the state of hockey!Don’t...
Minnesota Wild lose to Chicago Blackhawks on Xcel Energy Center Ice
Wild 2, Blackhawks 4 The Minnesota Wild continue to disappoint me. The Wild lost to the Chicago Blackhaws at the Xcel Energy Center last night 2-4. It was the second sub-par NHL team to come to St Paul and the second time the Wild played terribly, but this time they didn’t squeak by with an...
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