https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/page/162/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/wild-sign-ryan-hartman-to-three-year-extension/Since the Minnesota Wild signed pending unrestricted free agents Mats Zuccarello and Marcus Foligno to contract extensions in the past week, it was only a matter of time before the same news would happen for fellow pending UFA Ryan Hartman. The team wanted to get it done. Hartman wanted to get i...17331Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/sammy-walker-is-in-iowa-due-to-forces-out-of-his-control/        Life isn’t fair, son.         Oh, my skin crawls just typing that out. It’s what my father used to tell me growing up when something didn’t go my way. It used to tick me off so much. To be honest, it still does. But at least now I understand our parents were 100% right. Life isn’t fair...17329Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/zuccarello-broke-the-mold-by-signing-a-team-friendly-deal/When Mats Zuccarello pulled up to training camp, he had to know that his career hung in the balance. His position with the team was solid, but he just turned 36 and is playing in a contract year. The NHL isn’t exactly a game for old men. But any uneasiness he may have felt was gone with the stro...17328Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/will-jaire-alexander-or-davante-adams-benefit-most-from-their-familiarity/After the Detroit Lions beat them 34-20 last Thursday, the Green Bay Packers have a long week to prepare for a game against the Las Vegas Raiders in the desert. The 1-3 Raiders are third in the AFC West, meaning this isn’t a marquee matchup on paper, but Davante Adams adds real drama.   Adams pla...17326Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-under-dogs-are-barking-week-5/We got back to our winning ways last week with an assist from Patrick Mahomes, who swung tens of millions of dollars by sliding rather than strolling into the end zone. I owe you one, Pat.   If you’re new to this column, I find three underdogs (of at least three points) each week and ride them to...17322Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/kirill-kaprizov-can-still-get-to-another-level/        Kirill Kaprizov is already among the top players in Minnesota Wild history. Kaprizov has the record for most goals and points in a single season in only three seasons with Minnesota.  Since he arrived in North America, Kaprizov ranks 12th in total points and 14th in points per game league...17321Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/alexander-vs-adams-headlines-a-game-filled-with-intriguing-narratives/Following a humbling home loss to the Detroit Lions, the Green Bay Packers will head to Vegas for what ideally will be a get-right game. The schedule continues to ease Jordan Love into his first season at the helm. On Monday night, he will face off against a far more mortal Jimmy Garoppolo than Gr...17319Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-wild-cant-pay-sticker-price-for-ryan-hartman/The Minnesota Wild inked Marcus Foligno and Mats Zuccarello to contract extensions, and there’s another one comin’. At this point, it’s all but guaranteed that Ryan Hartman will be signing his new contract extension soon. Bill Guerin has done all but hung a banner outside the Xcel Energy Center...17313Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/marco-rossi-is-showing-underlying-indicators-of-success/Who cares about a handful of exhibition games?         That was a reasonable question to ask back in February 2014. Up until then, Mikael Granlund had 73 games and over 1000 minutes of NHL duty with the Minnesota Wild. He had only seven goals and 31 points to show for it. Heralded as the Future of...17312Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-wilds-retool-was-never-what-we-thought-it-was/It's hard to stay competitive in the NHL. It's hard to build a contending team. Doing both at the same time is almost impossible. That's why some were skeptical about Bill Guerin's strategy of building up the Minnesota Wild's prospect pool without trying to tank for the highest draft spots, or w...17307Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/maxx-crosby-will-test-the-packers-innovation-and-execution/The Green Bay Packers are heading into a critical matchup this week, still reeling from their Thursday night showdown against the Detroit Lions, where their offensive line found itself under siege. Aidan Hutchinson dominated the line of scrimmage, showcasing his versatility by wreaking havoc from...17306Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/are-the-wild-playing-3d-chess-by-extending-zuccarello-and-foligno/        Bill Guerin has been hard at work the past few days, re-signing a couple of the Minnesota Wild’s core pieces to multi-year extensions, with plans of inking another soon.         Last Friday, the Wild gave forward Mats Zuccarello a two-year, $8.25 million, signing him through the 2025-26...17297Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/green-bays-october-schedule-means-now-or-never-for-the-packers/As the NFC begins to separate the contenders from the pretenders, the Green Bay Packers already find themselves at an inflection point after only four games. On paper, the month of October should be kind to the Packers from a scheduling perspective. If Green Bay is going to stay in the thick of th...17293Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/green-bay-will-have-no-excuses-against-vegas-run-attack/Since Matt LaFleur took over as head coach, the Green Bay Packers’ ability to stop the run has consistently been their Achilles' heel. Despite their success in other aspects of the game, the Packers have often found themselves vulnerable when it comes to defending the ground attack. That lingering...17292Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/packers-poor-run-defense-goes-beyond-joe-barry/It is the year 3053. The last man on earth emerges from his makeshift shelter. He looks at the ruins of the world, and, with his last breath, utters, The Packers' run defense stinks.   The Green Bay Packers run defense is bad. It's been bad for years. It shows no signs of not being bad, despite p...17291Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-packers-are-who-we-thought-they-were/The NFL season is only four weeks old. There is still plenty of time for teams to change the narratives surrounding their seasons. But as it stands right now, the Green Bay Packers are a young, flawed, injured, inconsistent team. We knew that was the case before the season started. What we did not...17290Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-wild-are-starting-to-look-like-the-team-bill-guerin-blew-up/        When Bill Guerin took over the Minnesota Wild in 2019, he inherited a club that was long on experience and short on success. Led by long-time veterans like Mikko Koivu, Zach Parise, Ryan Suter, Eric Staal, and Devan Dubnyk, the Wild’s roster had an average age of 29.4 years old. That was....17288Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/keisean-nixon-might-need-to-start-taking-the-fair-catch/While it would be nice to chalk up Thursday night's game as an unfortunate anomaly and move on, the loss further exposed some troubling trends from the season's first three weeks.   The Green Bay Packers had a full meltdown in all three phases against the Detroit Lions in front of a full national...17283Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/who-is-jujhar-khaira-and-what-does-he-bring-the-wild/        The Minnesota Wild repeatedly use the word grit to describe their team. The Wild didn’t add many players in the offseason, but the ones they added had grit. Jujhar Khaira was Minnesota’s last signing before training camp started. Khaira has a gritty edge to his game and can help fill a de...17281Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/protecting-jordan-love-goes-beyond-the-pocket/In Thursday's matchup against the Detroit Lions, the Green Bay Packers managed their first two drives with an unconventional approach, opting for six consecutive pass plays. However, it resulted in back-to-back three-and-outs. The struggles were evident in Jordan Love’s performance, and he encount...17279Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/re-signing-calen-addison-was-really-about-jared-spurgeon/Calen Addison was born eight years after the movie “A Few Good Men” came out, but I’d like to believe he’s seen the movie. Because who hasn’t? (If you raised your hand reading that last sentence, drop everything now and go educate yourself on one of the greatest movies of the 90s.)         Let’s h...17278Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/bill-guerins-wild-are-chasing-after-bad-bets-with-extensions/In the opening scene of "Chasing It," the season six episode of The Sopranos, we see Tony Soprano celebrating winning a straight-up bet on a roulette spin. It's an incredibly long shot -- one-in-37 odds -- which gives "T" a massive rush. He pushes all his winnings back on 23, even as his capo Pa...17276Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/penalties-aside-the-packers-need-more-quay-walkers/Riding high off of an electric comeback win, the Detroit Lions dealt the Green Bay Packers a harsh reality check. In a weak conference and a division lacking a clear juggernaut like the San Francisco 49ers or Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay’s early success on both sides of the ball translated to pl...17274Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/how-productive-can-a-healthy-marcus-foligno-be/        Marcus Foligno is two things: A larger than life personality and a fighter. For most role players in the sport, one is enough. The combination of both in one man is not unique to Foligno, but it’s also invaluable in the locker room and on the ice.          Dishing out body checks at car...17273Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/exclude-from-home/the-under-dogs-are-barking-week-4/Picking up the pieces after my first losing week of the season (1-2). Things started so promising as the Texans destroyed the Jags, but my fun was short-lived as the Broncos barely failed to cover by a measly 43 points. Monday night, the Bucs never felt like the right side. Their recent dominance...17270Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000