https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/3/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-lynx-star-maya-moore-to-sit-out-second-straight-wnba-season-in-2020/Although Minnesota Lynx and WNBA fans likely haven't seen the last of Maya Moore on a basketball court, they won't see the star suit up for at least one more season.   Moore officially announced on Wednesday what many around the league anticipated heading into a new year: she will sit out her sec...7657Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/midseason-reflection-wilds-biggest-disappointments-at-the-all-star-break/As the Minnesota Wild officially hit the All-Star break for the 2019-20 campaign, they're looking up the standings at the playoff chase. That was not unexpected when regular season play began back in October. Many expected the Wild to be on the fringe of the playoff bubble.   To put it bluntly, t...7654Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-mailbag-free-agency-contending-in-2020-and-questions-at-guard/While sitting about four months away from the start of the 2020 season for the Minnesota Lynx and the rest of the WNBA in mid-May, things are about to pick up throughout the league.   With free agency negotiations opening up at the end of January and players being able to sign with respective tea...7647Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-drop-exhibition-contest-to-usa-under-18-team/Officially, I was never there. So, too, were all of the fans that braved the treacherous snowstorm to see Minnesota play an exhibition contest against the USA National Team Development Program Under-18 team on Friday at 3M Arena at Mariucci.   Minnesota took the loss thanks to a late, third-perio...7643Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-hire-katie-smith-as-assistant-coach-patterson-expected-to-join-liberty/With the WNBA offseason about to heat up with the calendar officially flipping over to 2020, the Minnesota Lynx are continuing to see a personnel switch among their assistant coaching staff.   On Tuesday, along with the league also announcing a new monumental and landmark eight-year Collective Ba...7627Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wnba-players-association-reaches-new-landmark-collective-bargaining-agreement/The WNBA and the WNBA Players Association have officially agreed to a new monumental, landmark Collective Bargaining Agreement that will change a lot surrounding the league, its players and women's basketball in general.   The WNBA and WNBAPA announced Tuesday morning the agreement between both p...7626Tue, 14 Jan 2020 10:31:57 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/back-in-action-breaking-down-the-time-missed-by-jason-zucker/Much was made about the superhuman recovery ability of Vikings running back Adrian Peterson after he tore his ACL. He returned in less than the year that had previously been the norm for recovery and rehabilitation for ACL injuries.   Jason Zucker did not suffer an ACL tear, nor was he slated to...7621Mon, 13 Jan 2020 08:00:51 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/making-room-for-kirill-kaprizov/The Minnesota Wild are in a roster conundrum for next year. Don't worry -- the Wild have cap space for this year, and are projected to have cap space next year, presuming the cap continues to rise.   However, the problem lies in the logjam at forward. It's a logjam that needs to be relieved in on...7604Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-assistant-walt-hopkins-named-new-york-liberty-head-coach/For the second straight offseason, the Minnesota Lynx are losing one of their assistant coaches on head coach and general manager Cheryl Reeve's staff.   A little over a year after the Lynx lost one assistant coach with James Wade being named the head coach and general manager of the Chicago Sky,...7599Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/five-people-who-will-shape-the-minnesota-wild-in-the-2020s/Lately, you have read all about the best players and moments -- and even the unfortunate ones -- from the Minnesota Wild in the past decade. But now that the calendar and decade have flipped to 2020, it is time to start gazing ahead instead of behind. With that in mind, let's look at the five peop...7580Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/tyler-johnson-puts-exclamation-point-on-record-setting-gopher-career/A new year provides everyone an opening to clean the slate, reinvent themselves and accomplish new goals.   The first day of 2020 provided Minnesota’s Tyler Johnson a different opportunity: a New Year’s Day Bowl game against an SEC secondary and the ultimate final in-game audition before entering...7578Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/slow-starts-to-each-period-doom-gophers-in-8-2-rout-vs-penn-state/Trying to match what the football team did last weekend, the Minnesota Golden Gophers hockey team was trying to make an upset of a ranked Penn State squad on Friday night.   Unfortunately for the Gophers (4-5-2, 1-2-2-2 in Big Ten), there was anything but an upset at 3M Arena at Mariucci as they...7435Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/similarities-go-deeper-than-8-0-records-for-minnesota-and-penn-state-football/Two nearly identical offenses, two nearly identical defenses.   It’s a classic Big Ten, top-25 team showdown set up for this coming Saturday. For the first time in a long time, that descriptor can apply to a Minnesota Golden Gophers football game.   No. 13 Minnesota hosts No. 5 Penn State in arg...7389Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-obliterated-in-faceoff-circle-cannot-hold-lead-against-notre-dame/Looking to take five of six points on the weekend against fifth-ranked Notre Dame, the Minnesota Golden Gophers took a 2-0 lead into the first intermission Friday night. Things were looking up for the Gophers, as they carried some favorable momentum into the locker room. Goals from Brannon McManus...7385Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-survive-sloppy-second-thanks-to-moe-win-in-overtime-3-2/It was an evenly matched first period on Friday night between Minnesota and fifth-ranked Notre Dame. Both teams went into the dressing room tied at zero and shots were even at six apiece.   Head coach Bob Motzko even acknowledged his team's first period after the game when he called it a good fir...7380Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/mailing-it-in-haula-ween-edition/A happy Friday to you all! Hopefully, you did not indulge too much on Halloween candy this past week and more specifically last night. For those of you in a sugar detox today here is the long-awaited mailbag!     What a great question. However, there are two parts to said question. Should t...7378Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/ferrell-guerins-retool-path-will-have-to-be-through-draft/As the Minnesota Wild get set to close out their worst month of October in over a decade Tuesday night, there are seemingly more questions than answers when it comes to their roster and the long term outlook of this franchise.   There’s a word the team will absolutely not use when it comes to ros...7369Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/missed-scoring-opportunities-lead-to-duluth-sweep-for-gopher-mens-hockey/DULUTH, MINN. — If Saturday was a departure from what the Minnesota Golden Gophers did wrong on Friday to lose to Minnesota Duluth 5-2, they added a new, more frustrating problem to the docket.   That frustration could be summed up in forward Sampo Ranta’s second period of the 2-0 loss in the ser...7364Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gopher-hockey-drops-fridays-in-state-battle-with-minnesota-duluth-5-2/Falling in a sweep early in the season didn’t sit well with the reigning national champions.   No. 8 Minnesota Duluth came out with a burning desire to get a victory on Friday against No. 20 Minnesota, as the Bulldogs were swept at Wisconsin last weekend. It isn’t an easy feat to sweep the Bulldo...7362Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-mailbag-wnba-offseason-edition/Now that the 2019 WNBA season is officially in the books, the offseason ahead of the 2020 campaign is officially underway.   With the Washington Mystics beating the Connecticut Sun 3-2 in the best-of-five WNBA Finals to grab their first league championship in franchise history, that entertaining...7341Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/momentum-surges-prove-key-to-gophers-wins-sweep/At the final horn, the thunder of the Minnesota marching band pierced through the teams' handshake at center ice. The Gophers won 4-2 over Niagara and celebrated their first sweep of the season with the Battle Hymn of the Republic, a tune only reserved for sweeps.   It took until the final regula...7339Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/signs-arent-pointing-to-a-dubnyk-turnaround-this-season/To say it has been an awful start to the season for the Minnesota Wild would be an understatement. It has been next-level bad for a team that was still getting playoff edicts from their owner Craig Leipold before the season started.   A big part of the problem -- and believe me, there are many --...7332Thu, 17 Oct 2019 08:49:16 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/minnesota-lynx-cheryl-reeve-agree-to-multi-year-contract-extension/In 2010, Cheryl Reeve moved to Minnesota to become the head coach of the Minnesota Lynx in an attempt to turn a struggling franchise around and create a winning culture in the Land of 10,000 Lakes.   Fast forward to 2019, Reeve has been able to say she has already accomplished that. And now, she...7324Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wnba-playoff-roundup-mystics-get-redemption-win-first-wnba-title/Around this time a year ago at the conclusion of the 2018 WNBA Playoffs, the Washington Mystics exited the WNBA Finals falling shy of their ultimate goal of a league title after being swept 3-0 by the Seattle Storm in the championship series.   Fast forward a year later, the Mystics once again fo...7300Thu, 10 Oct 2019 22:10:29 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/odyssey-sims-is-lone-lynx-representative-on-all-wnba-teams/Minnesota Lynx guard Odyssey Sims put a cap on her impressive inaugural season with the Minnesota Lynx in 2019 on Sunday afternoon.   The WNBA announced on Sunday during Game 3 of the WNBA Finals that the Lynx guard was named to the All-WNBA Second Team, receiving three First Team votes while gra...7292Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000