Articles by Derek Felska (797)

Pittsburgh Powers Past the Wild in 7-4 Victory
The 3-game road trip didn’t go so well for the Wild as they dropped all 3 games to open the…
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2019 Minnesota Wild Prospect Watch – October 5th-6th
Updated:With the big club already circulating the same excuses about needing to be better just two games into the 2019-20…
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3rd Period Surge Too Much For the Wild in 5-2 Loss to Nashville
Updated:After an eventful off season the Minnesota Wild are finally ready to start the 2019-20 NHL season with a new…
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Wild Fans Speak: 2019-20 Season Preview Edition, Part 3 of 3
Updated:The Hockey News publishes their annual ‘Hockey Yearbook’ and usually delivers it around the start of August. Even though I…
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Wild Fans Speak: 2019-20 Season Preview Edition, Part 2 of 3
Here’s a question to all of you out there who regularly read these articles. When did your body decide to…
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Wild Fans Speak: 2019-20 Season Preview Edition, Part 1 of 3
One of my commitments since I started blogging over 15 years ago, was to give fans a voice. Obviously any…
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They Were Once Wild: The Star Talent That Passed Through Over the Years
Updated:When you’ve been on a long journey, every now and then its a good idea to look back and see…
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Minnesota Wild Announce 2019 Traverse City Tournament Roster & Schedule
Updated:When people are looking for signs that the fall season is about to arrive, they often look for the leaves…
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Minnesota Wild Hire Bill Guerin as General Manager
Updated:Almost a month ago, the Minnesota Wild made its biggest ‘splash’ of the 2019 off season by firing Paul Fenton…
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Iowa Wild Hire Alex Tanguay as an Assistant Coach and 2019-20 Iowa Wild Season Thoughts
Updated:If there was any bright side to the 2018-19 season for the Minnesota Wild organization was the play of its…
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Minnesota Wild Signs Mats Zuccarello, Ryan Hartman and Luke Johnson
Updated:It is a day like this that I really feel the time is right to give an applause to the…
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Minnesota Wild select Matthew Boldy in the 1st round of the 2019 NHL Entry Draft
Updated:For most 18-year old people in this part of the world the walk across the stage most likely has something…
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2019 Minnesota Wild Draft Preview: Draft Sleepers
Updated:Diamonds in the rough, hidden gem, sleeper, dark horse, glitter in the dust are all euphemisms for finding something valuable…
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2019 Minnesota Wild Draft Preview: Goaltenders
Statistics are a funny thing. You can spin them to make a person sound good and often you can use…
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2019 Minnesota Wild Draft Preview: Defenseman
Updated:For Paul Fenton, it was an auspicious start to his tenure as the Minnesota Wild’s new general manager. The NHL…
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2019 Minnesota Wild Draft Preview: Forwards
Updated:As the season came to an end, I have to admit I was pretty exhausted from thinking and writing about…
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Minnesota Wild signs Gerald Mayhew, Jordan Greenway loafs and other Wild news
Updated:Hello everyone and Happy Mother’s Day to all of you mom’s out there! Hockey mom’s get a lot of credit…
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Is Minnesota Wild General Manager Paul Fenton In Over His Head?
Updated:One aspect of leadership that is essential is confidence. Whether you’re managing a business, a quarterback in the huddle or…
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Wild Fans Speak: 2018-19 Off Season Edition Part 3 of 3
As we go into the last part of our Wild Fans Speak: 2018-19 Off Season edition, it feels sort of…
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Iowa Wild Clinch Playoff Berth, other Minnesota Wild Prospect News
Updated:While the Minnesota Wild held meetings all last week to figure out what went wrong in the 2018-19 season. I…
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Wild Fans Speak: Off Season Edition Part 2 of 3
On many a game night, KFAN’s Brandon Mileski and Pat Micheletti host Wild Fanline, a chance for fans to go…
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Wild Fans Speak: 2018-19 Off Season Edition Part 1 of 3
Updated:Thomas Jefferson once said, if you are angry count to ten before you speak if very angry count to a…
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Wild Season Ends With a Whimper As They Fall 3-0 to Dallas
Updated:Remember the last round of the fight between Ivan Drago and Rocky Balboa from Rocky IV? Remember what they said…
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Wild Underwhelming in last home game as they fall 3-0 to Boston
Updated:It was a bittersweet feeling on Tuesday night, as the Minnesota Wild completed a 5-game season series sweep of the…
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Parise and the Wild Rout Winnipeg 5-1
Minnesota is all too familiar with disappointment. Just ask most of their college hockey fans as they only had one…
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Wild Playoff Hopes Die (pretty much) In 4-0 Loss to Arizona
The Minnesota Wild are in someways a lot like the band Nickelback. Some people love the band, and feel its…
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Game Preview: Minnesota Wild vs. Arizona Coyotes 3/31/19 @ 4:00PM CST at Gila River Arena
Minnesota Wild (36-33-9) 81pts 6th in the Central 2.63 Goals For Per Game (27th in the NHL) 2.85 Goals Against…
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Wild Power Play Strikes Twice In 3-2 Win Over Vegas
Updated:The uncomfortable wait. Whether its waiting for a job interview or at the doctor’s office. For some its more time…
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Missed Opportunities Haunt Wild in 1-0 Loss to Nashville
Updated:Win one, lose one is not really a good strategy for progress at anytime, let alone near the end of…
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