https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/page/154/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/can-pack-avoid-a-giant-letdown/The Green Bay Packers are hot. They’re trendy. On the heels of three straight wins, they’re now the team no one wants to face in the playoffs.   Of course, they have to get there first.   A 3-2 finish will likely get them there, and this primetime road game against the New York Giants may be one...17829Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-under-dogs-are-barking-week-14/We got back to our winning ways last week, thanks to the Packers pulling the outright upset on Sunday night. As you know, it’s a week-to-week league, and while my love for the Pack is as strong as ever, I’m going the other way this week. My other two selections have been favorites of mine lately,...17826Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/why-the-giants-trap-game-threat-is-real/The Green Bay Packers have looked fantastic over the last month. They’ve won three straight following a loss to a stout Pittsburgh defense, and they have looked great doing it.   Now, coming off a win against the reigning world champion Kansas City Chiefs to get back to .500, there is a great dea...17825Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/john-hynes-system-adjustments-drove-his-honeymoon-period/When an NHL team fires its head coach, the company line is that the team just needed a fresh voice in the locker room. But what does that mean? Is it just a buzzword? Perhaps it just conveniently threads the needle between the less-believable, The last guy was so bad he should never coach again, a...17822Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wilderness-walk-wild-get-shutout-in-vancouver/That's Wild         The Minnesota Wild have been handed their first loss of the John Hynes Era. Luckily, it took a good number of games to get to, but a loss is a loss. They visited the Vancouver Canucks and got properly shutout by Casey DeSmith after sending just 26 shots on goal. [NHL dot com...17820Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/gamethread-wild-at-canucks-900-p-m/The Vancouver Canucks started the season off incredibly hot, seemingly scoring a goal every type one of their players touched the puck and put the smallest of force behind it towards the opposing netminder. Lawfully, they have slipped and become a normal hockey team since then but still find thems...17816Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/jesper-wallstedt-is-following-marc-andre-fleurys-footsteps-in-ahl/It's too bad that the only goalies on earth hotter than Jesper Wallstedt since John Hynes took over the Minnesota Wild are Filip Gustavsson and Marc-Andre Fleury. It's not often that a young goalie leads the AHL in save percentage and finds themselves with no room at the inn, but that's where Wall...17815Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wilderness-walk-can-the-wild-still-make-the-playoffs/While Thanksgiving has come and gone, and with it, the typical marker for whether a team in the NHL is going to be in the playoffs or not, we shouldn't lose hope. The Minnesota Wild were sinking in the standings all season long until this recent hot streak under new coach John Hynes has seen them...17813Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/marco-rossi-is-tying-the-wilds-new-look-top-line-together/A long-running frustration with the Minnesota Wild is that they'd drafted Marco Rossi to be a No. 1 center, only to steadfastly refuse to let him play in that role. When the Wild needed center help in the 2021-22 season, they didn't bother calling Rossi up from the AHL, even after scoring 38 point...17809Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wilderness-walk-boldy-stays-hot-zuccarello-is-ageless/That's Wild         The Minnesota Wild have now won four in a row under John Hynes and it was a demolishing of the Calgary Flames. A 5-2 victory on the road that saw Matt Boldy score two goals and Mats Zuccarello drinking from the Fountain of Youth. [The Hockey News]     Despite recent Calde...17805Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-packers-future-at-tight-end-is-here/Many NFL experts believe tight ends have the longest learning curve in transitioning from college to pro football, except for quarterbacks. You’ve got to know it all from the run- and pass-blocking concepts, the passing-game concepts, and be able to transition between the two during audibles and c...17804Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/should-jordan-love-be-in-the-mvp-conversation/At the start of the season, Jordan Love and the NFL Most Valuable Player Award are not words anyone would have put together in a sentence. But ever since the Minnesota Vikings beat the Green Bay Packers and dropped them to 2-5, Love has helped guide the Packers to a 4-1 record. On Sunday night, he...17803Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/minnesotas-superb-rookie-duo-wont-threaten-bedards-calder-coronation/OK, Connor Bedard, so you got an assist on Sunday. That don't impress the Minnesota media much, at least not in the much-hyped generational talent's first trip to the Xcel Energy Center. Especially not when twin Minnesota Wild rookies Marco Rossi and Brock Fabth outshone the much-hyped generationa...17802Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wilderness-walk-some-good-injury-news/That's Wild         The Minnesota Wild was without Zach Bogosian against the Chicago Blackhawks on Sunday, and during that game, captain Jared Spurgeon suffered what appeared to be a gnarly leg injury. But as the Wild head up north for a Western Canada road trip, head coach John Hynes is confid...17800Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/joe-barry-probably-isnt-going-anywhere/As everyone expected, Jordan Love outplayed the reigning MVP Patrick Mahomes on Sunday Night Football in an iconic showdown.   What, you didn’t see that one coming?   While Love and the young offense had a dominant performance against one of the league's better defenses, the Green Bay Packers' o...17798Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-packers-have-replaced-hope-with-expectations/It was just over a month ago that the Green Bay Packers dropped their fourth consecutive game, skidding to a 2-5 record that had fans checking their preseason excitement at the door. Winning three straight games and four out of five, most notably against contenders like the Detroit Lions and Kansa...17797Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/colin-cowherd-says-the-green-bay-way-doesnt-get-enough-credit/With all the predictions and hot takes that rolled in preseason about the pending ramifications of the Aaron Rodgers trade, the most commonly shouted one was that of “Brian Gutekunst screwed up.” Analysts, former players, and people across social media all seem to agree that the organization had m...17795Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wilderness-walk-bill-guerin-blames-the-players/That's Wild         The Minnesota Wild returned from Sweden with a five-game losing streak and fans and media and management alike are trying to determine what is the cause of this team's demise. Well, general manager Bill Guerin wants to make it clear that it's on the players to pick themselve...17793Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wilderness-walk-boldy-discusses-scoring-slump/That's Wild         Matt Boldy hasn't scored for the Wild in eight games since returning to the lineup from injury. Now, the Wild are in free fall as the team has lost five consecutive games. Boldy largely blames himself for his slump, but he goes on to explain it further. [starTribune]    ...17792Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/gamethread-wild-vs-avalanche-730-p-m/The Minnesota Wild have not won a game since Nov. 7. While the schedule has been light, they have gone a miserable 0-3-2 since that victory and now they get to host one of the best teams in the league, the Colorado Avalanche.       If you wanted to come up with the opposite of what the Wild are...17791Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/gamethread-wild-at-red-wings-1200-p-m/The Minnesota Wild have made the trip to Michigan to face the Detroit Red Wings for a Sunday matinee. Having lost their last six games, and only a couple loser points to take from this horrid streak, the Wild are desperate to try and get back in the winning ways. Just a big shrug and a "we'll see"...17790Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wilderness-walk-something-has-to-change/That's Wild         The Minnesota Wild have hit a new low having lost their seventh straight game after a rough Sunday matinee defeat to Detroit. It has been heralded as "unacceptable" and that "something has to change" for this team. There seems to be a whole lot of frustration and searching f...17789Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wilderness-walk-why-the-wild-hired-john-hynes/In case you live under a rock but care about the Minnesota Wild, the team fired head coach Dean Evason and assistant Bob Woods on Monday. And in their place, they have hired a brand new head coach, John Hynes.       Hynes is a familiar enough name around the NHL. He started his big-league career...17788Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/gamethread-wild-vs-blues-700-p-m/The Minnesota Wild made their drastic decision to fire head coach Dean Evason and replace him with John Hynes. Now, they get to host their rivals in the St. Louis Blues, for the first game in the Hynes era.       When: 7:00 p.m. CT Where: Xcel Energy Center TV: Bally Sports North Radio:...17787Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/christian-watson-was-enchanted-and-gorgeous-against-kc/Taylor Swift might have been at Lambeau Field to watch the Kansas City Chiefs, but it was the Green Bay Packers who put on the love story.   (I am the first NFL writer ever to make that joke.)   Jordan Love led the Packers to a massive upset victory over the defending Super Bowl champs. For the...17785Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000