Minnesota Wild General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League club has signed forward Kirill Kaprizov to a two-year, entry-level contract starting with the 2019-20 season. Kaprizov, 23 (4/26/97), registered 62 points (33-29=62), a plus-32 rating, six power-play goals, six game-winning goals and 171 shots on goal in 57 games with CSKA Moscow […]
Wild name Evason permanent head coach
Minnesota Wild General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has named Dean Evason its full-time Head Coach. As part of today’s announcement, Evason has signed a two-year extension with the organization through the 2021-22 season. “I am very excited to announce that Dean Evason is our full-time head coach,” said […]
Wild postseason qualifying round schedule announced
The Minnesota Wild’s Qualifying Round Series schedule against the Vancouver Canucks was announced today by the National Hockey League (NHL). The best-of-five series will begin on Sunday, August 2. All games will be played at Rogers Place in Edmonton, Alberta. Minnesota will be the home team for Games three and four. MINNESOTA WILD QUALIFYING ROUND […]
Big Ten goes to conference games only for fall sports
The Big Ten Conference announced Thursday it will not play nonconference games in football and several other sports this fall, the most dramatic move yet by a power conference because of the coronavirus pandemic. The conference cited medical advice in making its decision and added ominously that the plan would be applied only ”if the […]
Buxton healthy and ready to go (AUDIO)
An array of injuries was largely responsible for the blight on the first five years of Byron Buxton’s still-promising major league career, with surgery last fall to repair labrum damage in his left shoulder serving as the latest setback. The most games he can get in this year for the Minnesota Twins? Sixty. Such a […]
Hill ready to go for Twins (AUDIO)
When the Minnesota Twins signed Rich Hill from the bargain aisle of free agency last winter, they expected the left-hander to be available around midseason after his recovery from elbow surgery. Now the 40-year-old is on track to be ready right away, thanks to the virus outbreak that shoved the schedule back by four months […]
Brainerd International Raceway gets creative, fans welcome to two-day weekend event (AUDIO)
(Brainerd, MN) — Racing fans in Minnesota will have their first chance to see live racing in person at Brainerd International Raceway this weekend. The famed track will host two days of road course racing featuring the Trans AM Series and the Sports Car Club of America Series. While state health guidelines are still not […]
Twins announce revised 2020 schedule
(Minneapolis, MN) — The Minnesota Twins have announced their revised schedule for the 2020 Major League Baseball regular season, as the club’s 60th campaign in Twins Territory features a 60-game slate to be played over 66 days between July 24 and September 27. All 60 games will be televised, with 58 broadcast on FOX Sports […]
Bremer excited for Twins season, will broadcast road games from Target Field (AUDIO)
(Minneapolis, MN) — When the Minnesota Twins open the regular season, the radio and television broadcasters will not be traveling to road games. Instead, the announcing crews will be calling the road games from their Target Field broadcast booths while watching a live feed of the game on a monitor. The reasoning for the change […]
Elko Speedway owner frustrated with not being able to open (AUDIO)
(Elko New Market, MN) — The owner of a NASCAR-sanctioned track just south of the Twin Cities is frustrated that he’s had to cancel this weekend’s season-opening events. Tom Ryan owns Elko Speedway and had been planning a Fourth of July opener, but says current COVID-19 health guidelines from the state still aren’t allowing for […]