Posts Tagged ‘Wild’

Wild Season End

Friday, April 24th, 2009

The Minnesota Wild’s season is over, it was a season of difficulties, injuries and successes highs and lows with excitement and frustrations. Jacque LeMeire has coached the Wild from the start and is considering calling it quits and retiring from coaching. I think that it may be time for the Minnesota Wild to move another direction, while Coach Limier looks over his options the other coaches are chopping at the bit to move in to the lead spot. What one of the assistant coaches dissevers a chance to move up? What direction with they take the team and will they finally open up the players so they can shoot the puck when they have the option? While under Limier, the Wild have found some success, they need to find the way past the basic success and win the Stanley Cup, Yes they need to find a way to bring the Cup to the State Of Hockey!

While stand out players keep moving up from Huston, Marion Gaborik in what could quite possibly be his last game in a Wild Sweater play his best game that I have ever seen him play. Gaborik only really lost the puck one time that I remember, Brunette played his game that was great to see, and Meko Koivu was rocking the ice, Backstrom, and solid as a backstop! Do the Wild hold the ability to win the cup? No, but two or three core players could bring the cup to Minnesota where it rightly belongs.

As a fan and a season ticket holder I felt a little ripped off. Every year the Wild end the season by giving the Jersey off their back to the fans, this is done on the last home game, this year they did it on the second to last home game, now you may say so? However, as the season ticket owner I take the last game just for that reason, so I have a chance to win a jersey, so the second to last game this year was not my game and the last game just seamed like any other game in the season. By the way I have four other people in my group, so we split the tickets five ways, the person that had the second to last home game did not win a jersey either. She told us that it was rigged, because most of the winners were in the club level then the suite level then the main level then the upper level, why do they do that. I have been a season ticket holder from the start, many of the club tickets are owned by business, and they give tickets to who ever, most never go to games more than once or twice a year, to me that just does not seem fare.

Wild Take out Bruins

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Wild Win

Wild Win

BOSTON (AP) -The Minnesota Wild showed why they’re the NHL’s top defensive team by completely shutting down the league’s best offensive club.

Niklas Backstrom stopped 28 shots for his second straight shutout and fifth of the season to lead Wild to a 1-0 win over Boston, handing the Bruins their first shutout of the season on Tuesday night.

“We had only a few minutes that guys were not good on defense,” Wild coach Jacques Lemaire said. “You have to when you have a team that moves the puck like they do. You gotta have a good stick and your defenseman’s gotta be good.”

Marek Zidlicky scored a second-period power-play goal, lifting Minnesota to its second win against the Eastern Conference-leading Bruins this season.

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Marian Gaborik has begun rehabilitation from surgery on his left hip.

Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Gaborik

Gaborik

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Marian Gaborik has begun rehabilitation from surgery on his left hip.

The Minnesota Wild reported late Monday the operation to repair a torn labrum and damaged cartilage went “as expected.” The star right wing started rehab immediately after the procedure in Colorado, done by the same specialist who performed a similar operation on his right hip last summer.

Groin pain persisted for Gaborik this season, and he played in only six games before being diagnosed with a deficiency in his hip. The team wanted him to try to play through it, but he elected surgery.

Gaborik is estimated to need 10 to 14 weeks to return. He can begin skating in six weeks, near his 27th birthday. He is in the final year of his contract.