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After netting Ryan Suter and Zach Parise last summer, the Minnesota Wild face a new challenge in 2013 -- advancing their team as a Cup contender despite salary cap constraints. As free agency creeps closer, priority No. 1 will be goaltending.

Blog | Conversation | June 07, 2013

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- In the middle of a hotly contested playoff series and with a crucial game in the offing, individual awards may seem relatively inconsequential. But when it was revealed Tuesday morning that Ryan Suter was a finalist for the Norr...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- On a day when life was breathed back into the State of Hockey, it turned out to be the kid from Newport Beach, Calif., who did the resuscitating. Go figure. In what now ranks as one of the most important victories in franchis...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Here's a quick look at the Minnesota Wild's 3-2 overtime win over Chicago Blackhawks in Game 3 of their Western Conference quarterfinal series at the Xcel Energy Center on Sunday. How it happened: Wild forward Jason Zucker deli...

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- At the same time Minnesota Wild players were stepping onto the ice for practice, workers outside the Xcel Energy Center were putting up a giant sign: Fight To The End. So far in this Western Conference quarterfinals series betwe...

CHICAGO -- Chicago Blackhawks goaltender Corey Crawford couldn't have begun the 2013 Stanley Cup playoffs any worse. The first shot the Minnesota Wild took on Crawford in Game 1 of their first-round series bypassed him and found the inside of the ...

Here's what you need to know about the Chicago Blackhawks' first-round opponent, the Minnesota Wild: The Wild sputtered into the playoffs. They went 5-8-1 and were outscored 41-25 in April. They scored more than two goals just twice in the month...

The Minnesota Wild didn't get any help on the scoreboard Thursday night with both the Detroit Red Wings and Columbus Blue Jackets winning. So Friday night's game with the Edmonton Oilers does indeed matter, the Wild needing a victory to clinch the...

So, maybe we were a bit hasty in assuming the Minnesota Wild were locks to make the playoffs. After a lackluster 4-1 loss Sunday night to the lowly Calgary Flames, the Wild woke up Monday to find that they'd sunk into a tie with the Columbus Blue...

Give the New Jersey Devils this: Even in the face of the inevitable, there is no quit in them. Down 4-0 to the Boston Bruins by the 3:06 mark of the second period Wednesday night, the Devils kept chipping away, and early in the third they had mad...

Aiming for their first playoff run in 10 years, the Minnesota Wild weren't afraid to go big and get a player like Jason Pominville for the push.

Mikko Koivu scored in a shootout to give the Minnesota Wild a 4-3 victory over the Los Angeles Kings on Saturday night.

Star forward Zach Parise tells ESPN.com's Katie Strang about his return home, the Wild's playoff chances and what that phone call to Devils GM Lou Lamoriello was like last July in this week's edition of the New York Minute.

Zach Parise scored two goals and added an assist and the Minnesota Wild extended their winning streak to six games with a 7-4 win over Dallas Stars on Monday.

James Harrison's agent said Monday that he hasn't closed the door on a possible return for his client to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

It was the first week of February, and the Minnesota Wild had lost three straight games to fall to 4-5-1. It wasn't what the passionate fans in the State of Hockey were expecting after a hype-filled offseason last summer fueled by the high-priced ...