The Tampa Bay Lightning won a physical, playoff-style match in Nashville on Tuesday night, and now they return to Florida with more confidence than they have had over the past two weeks. Winger Nikita Kucherov chipped in Steven Stamkos’ diagonal pass in overtime, slipping his third career overtime winner past Predators goalie Pekka Rinne for […]

WILD 4, PANTHERS 2 Carson Soucy scored the go-ahead goal early in the third period to lift Minnesota over Florida. Luke Kunin, Mats Zuccarello and Jason Zucker also scored as the Wild won their fourth straight game and earned a point for the 10th straight game (7-0-3). Kaapo Kahkonen stopped 44 shots in his second […]

WILD 3, STARS 2 (shootout) Mikko Koivu scored the shootout winner in his 1,000th career game and reached 700th career points with a second-period assist in Minnesota’s win over Dallas. Koivu, playing his 15th season with the Wild, beat Ben Bishop with his trademark move, a backhand over the goalie’s left shoulder. Then Alex Stalock, […]

The Ottawa Senators have had a scoring outage over the last two games, and Minnesota might not be the best place to find full power. The Senators travel to the “State of Hockey” to face the Minnesota Wild in St. Paul on Friday, a game which will conclude the clubs’ two-game series this season. Ottawa […]

WILD 3, DEVILS 2 Kaapo Kahkonen made 32 saves in his NHL debut, defenseman Ryan Suter scored the winner early in the third period and suddenly hot Minnesota beat New Jersey in a game the NHL said the Devils got credit for a goal that should not have counted. Zach Parise and Jordan Greenway also […]

The Minnesota Wild and New Jersey Devils share similar records for some of the same reasons: inconsistent goaltending along with an inability to protect leads in the third period. The struggling teams get together Tuesday night when Minnesota visits New Jersey, which is coming off one of its best showings of the season. Minnesota heads […]

RANGERS 3, WILD 2, OT Tony DeAngelo scored 32 seconds into overtime to give New York a victory over Minnesota that moved goalie Henrik Lundqvist into sole possession of fifth place on the NHL career wins. Chris Kreider tied it for the Rangers on a power-play goal with less than three minutes left in the […]

The New York Rangers and Minnesota Wild received first-hand yet entirely different glimpses of the suddenly chaotic nature of the NHL on Saturday night. The Rangers will look to build on one of the biggest comeback wins in team history on Monday night when they host a Wild squad hoping to bounce back from a […]

(St. Paul, MN)  —  The Minnesota Wild continued their recent hot streak with a 3-2 win over the Colorado Avalanche.  Jason Zucker scored the eventual winner midway through the third period as the Wild won their second consecutive game, improved to 3-0-1 in their last four games and improved to 5-1-2 at Xcel Energy Center.  […]

The Minnesota Wild get to do something they have not done much of in the first seven weeks of the season — play at home. Minnesota has been on the road for 14 of its first 21 games, and scheduled for nine home games in the first two months of the season, the fewest in […]