https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/27/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/4-4-recap-wild-lose-in-anaheim-as-ducks-clinch-playoff-spot/When a team has already earned a trip to the playoffs but still has regular-season games on the schedule, the pressure is off and the style of play can take a foot off the accelerator. The Minnesota Wild didn’t play an outstanding game Wednesday in Anaheim, but it wasn’t a horrible game either.  ...4542Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/4-4-pregame-minnesota-wild-vs-anaheim-ducks/While the rest of Minnesota is digging out from an early-April blizzard, the Minnesota Wild are off for a relaxing three-game West-Coast road swing to end their regular season.   They’ll start with a game in Anaheim on Wednesday night.   For playoff implications, these games don’t mean a whole l...4539Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wild-clinch-sixth-straight-playoff-berth/The Minnesota Wild took care of business on home ice, and everything else lined up for the Wild to clinch their sixth-straight trip to the NHL Stanley Cup Playoffs.   The Wild did their part with a 3-0 shutout of Edmonton. With wild-card contender St. Louis losing to Washington, the last puzzle p...4530Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/4-2-recap-parise-finds-his-game-at-the-right-time-in-wilds-shutout-win/Last fall, the Minnesota Wild’s season was dealt an early blow when Zach Parise underwent surgery on his back. He missed the first 39 games of the season. As the season winds down, Parise might be hitting his stride at just the right time.   Monday, Parise scored a pair of goals in his 40th game...4528Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/ryan-suter-to-have-surgery-miss-remainder-of-season/The Minnesota Wild announced Monday night prior to their game against Edmonton that defenseman Ryan Suter will have surgery to repair a broken bone in his ankle and will miss the remainder of the season.     As Michael Russo of The Athletic pointed out, the 'remainder of the season' notatio...4525Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/4-2-pregame-edmonton-oilers-vs-minnesota-wild/The Minnesota Wild will have to clinch a playoff spot without their top two defensemen, with the injured Jared Spurgeon and now Ryan Suter, who’s out with a broken fibula after a crash into the end boards in Dallas.   The Wild (43-25-10) will look a little different defensively in their regular-s...4523Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/4-1-recap-timberwolves-recent-struggles-reach-a-low-in-blowout-loss-to-jazz/The first two times the Timberwolves played the Utah Jazz, they looked like the better team. At the very least, they looked like a team that could hack it with them.   And while the Wolves remained without Jimmy Butler in this one -- along with Jeff Teague and Derrick Rose -- Sunday's 121-97 loss...4515Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-31-recap-suter-injured-in-wilds-loss-in-dallas/The Minnesota Wild lost the hockey game 4-1 to the Dallas Stars.   Unfortunately, they may have lost a lot more than that. Their top defenseman, Ryan Suter, left the game after he went into the end boards awkwardly and had to be helped off the ice by his teammates.   “That’s not what you want to...4509Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2018-bullpen-usage-and-roles/The Twins are two games into the season and after the first game, Twitter was already up in arms about Molitor’s bullpen decisions.  Our very own Brandon Warne did a good job of rationalizing Molitor’s thinking in his game wrap up. Not knowing this bullpen very well got me to wondering about the...4507Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-31-pregame-minnesota-wild-vs-dallas-stars/The Wild have five games left on the schedule, hold the third spot in the Central Division and can almost taste the playoffs.   Almost.   They’ll look to keep the points-streak rolling as they finish their season series against the Dallas Stars with a road game Saturday.   The Wild (43-24-10) h...4506Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-30-recap-wolves-escape-with-win-in-dallas-make-jump-in-west-standings/In what was most likely their worst loss of the season less than a week ago against the Memphis Grizzlies at Target Center, the Minnesota Timberwolves struggled shooting the ball while allowing the Grizzlies to hang around for a majority of the game.   That recipe was enough to hand the Wolves a...4503Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-morning-after-walk-off-homer-in-extras-foils-twins-season-opener/The 2016 season opened with a walk-off loss for the Minnesota Twins in Baltimore.   Then again, it also began with Miguel Sano playing right field, so the parallels probably stop there.   But the Twins opened the 2018 season in stunningly similar fashion to two years ago, when the wheels fell al...4499Fri, 30 Mar 2018 13:43:23 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-29-recap-special-teams-comes-through-in-wilds-5-2-victory-over-dallas/The Minnesota Wild kept the points coming with a pair of power-play goals in three chances, plus a shorthanded goal in a 5-2 victory over the Dallas Stars on Thursday in St. Paul.   Zach Parise scored a pair of goals, while defenseman Matt Dumba had a goal and three assists for a career-high four...4496Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/remington-confirmation-bias-matt-dumba/Perception is reality.   It's a saying that really isn't used enough, given its wide-reaching applications. We can trick our mind into anything, really. We can convince ourselves that we're smarter than we are, fatter than we are, are madly in love with inanimate objects or more qualified than an...4487Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-28-recap-towns-drops-franchise-record-56-points-as-wolves-defeat-hawks/Fresh off one of the worst losses of the season, the Timberwolves needed a boost.   On Wednesday night against the tanking Atlanta Hawks -- who were without top scorers Kent Bazemore and Dennis Schroeder -- seemed like the perfect team to jump on in order to achieve that boost. They came in loser...4484Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/moore-unleashing-karl-anthony-towns-in-the-post/With 5:18 remaining in the what turned out to be the worst loss of the season, the Wolves needed a bucket desperately against the Memphis Grizzlies. After having led by four points at the end of the third quarter, the offense had only made two baskets -- both by Andrew Wiggins -- in the seven minu...4479Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-27-recap-staal-hits-40-goal-mark-in-wilds-shootout-loss/For the second time in as many nights, the Minnesota Wild lost 2-1 in extra time. Even though they’re losses, moral-victory points are pretty much welcomed at this time of year. Tuesday’s 2-1 shootout loss came on the road at the Central Division leader’s house in Nashville.   The Wild (42-24-10)...4477Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/notebook-twins-finalize-opening-day-roster-no-more-circle-me-bert/The Minnesota Twins more or less finalized their Opening Day roster for when they begin the season on Thursday afternoon against the Baltimore Orioles.   The club made the following moves on Tuesday: Optioned outfielder Zack Granite to Triple-A Rochester Assigned catchers Willians Astudi...4475Tue, 27 Mar 2018 19:02:06 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-27-pregame-minnesota-wild-vs-nashville-predators/Only seven regular-season games left on the schedule for the Minnesota Wild, and five of them are on the road. After beating the Nashville Predators 4-1 on home ice on Saturday, the Wild (42-24-9) face the defending Western Conference champs in Smashville on Tuesday night.   It marks the fifth an...4474Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-26-recap-wolves-fall-to-grizzlies-in-worst-loss-of-the-year/The last time the Memphis Grizzlies won on the road it was in Sacramento and the year was 2017.   Monday night, the Grizzlies -- who had also lost 23 of their previous 24 total games -- broke that three-month road losing streak at Target Center against a Minnesota Timberwolves that was playing fo...4468Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/davonte-fitzgerald-to-transfer-from-gophers-basketball-program/An anticlimactic three seasons in the Golden Gophers basketball program for Davonte Fitzgerald came to an end Monday.   The redshirt-junior forward will be transferring from the program to play his final season elsewhere, according to a release sent from the team Monday.   "Davonte has been an o...4466Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-wild-sign-jordan-greenway-to-entry-level-contract/The Minnesota Wild announced Monday morning that they have signed forward Jordan Greenway to his three year entry-level contract.     More from the release: Greenway, 21 (2/16/97), recorded 35 points (13-22=35) and 52 penalty minutes (PIM) in 36 games during his junior season at Boston Uni...4461Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-24-recap-maybe-a-beatdown-from-the-sixers-could-help-the-timberwolves-down-the-stretch/You know the score is lopsided when Cole Aldrich, Aaron Brooks and Marcus Georges-Hunt get minutes.   You know it got completely out of hand when those minutes come at the beginning of the fourth quarter.   And you know that the world has been turned upside down when that bench unit nearly bring...4454Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-claim-kennys-vargas-from-reds/The Kennys Vargas era in Cincinnati lasted about as long as a Joey Votto plate appearance, as the Minnesota Twins have claimed the 27-year-old slugger after the Reds tried to slip him through waivers for the purpose of sending him to Triple-A Louisville.       The fit was dubious at b...4453Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/3-23-recap-wolves-hold-off-knicks-clinch-first-winning-season-since-2004-05/As the Western Conference playoff race continues to heat up, every team trying to reach the postseason seemingly refuses to lose a game.   On Friday night, the Minnesota Timberwolves continued the trend while sitting in the heart of that playoff race.   In what turned out to be a back-and-forth...4450Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000