Star Tribune's Mike Russo

Since Guillaume Latendresse didn't have any assistant coaches around to bag skate him this week while he was idle, he found three buddies in Montreal to do it for him while he waited for his U

As a junior player, Dave Barr played on four teams in three years, so he got vast experience at an early age how to handle life being uprooted

Since they were already sporting Wild sweaters, Twins stars Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau should have strapped on skates

Pierre-Marc Bouchard had Wednesday circled on his calendar for some time, but it wasn't to return to the Wild's lineup

The timing, Chuck Fletcher said, was merely coincidental

In the four days since they last played, Wild players and coaches got some precious time to catch up on family matters, practice drills and rest

An eventful day for the Wild began with the team announcing another significant injury to another significant player and ended with the Wild and Montreal Canadiens flipping a pair of maligned wingers desperate for changes of scenery

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In March, after the Wild trounced the Islanders in Uniondale, N

Andrew Ebbett is tired of living out of a suitcase and bouncing from team to team

There's few more miserable places to be than inside a losing NHL locker room

With many spectators eager to witness the first Twin Cities visit of the New York Islanders' star taken first overall in last June's NHL draft, the old man taken No

As the Wild's Cal Clutterbuck was being interviewed this week, eavesdropping locker-room neighbor Mikko Koivu interrupted a reporter's comment: "Don't tell him that