https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/68/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/change-is-coming-to-cold-omaha/In a couple days Cold Omaha is going to look a little bit different. The site is getting a bit of a makeover and even a new title, “Zone Coverage."  So when you come back to visit, you will see new colors, a new logo, and we will be adding some new features and fresh graphics.   There’s nothing t...1757Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/four-key-minnesota-wild-players-down-the-stretch/The Wild are currently in the midst of their NHL mandated “bye week,' and once they return, they come back to a hellacious schedule to end the season. With the final games coming in 41 days, the Wild will need all hands on deck to hold on to the top spot in the Central Division. Minnesota currentl...1756Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/tom-thibodeau-im-happy-with-the-team-we-have-but-hes-still-looking-around/Minnesota Timberwolves coach and president of basketball operations Tom Thibodeau was "not gonna comment on any trade speculation or any of that stuff." Ricky Rubio practiced but did not address the media. Gorgui Dieng, who is safely locked into a four-year, $64 million deal, joked that he's got h...1755Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/chicago-loss-is-a-reminder-that-blackhawks-still-stand-in-the-minnesota-wilds-way/We are playing a team that’s won three Stanley Cups in the last six seasons. That team gets up for every important game.   -- Bruce Boudreau after Minnesota’s 5-3 loss to Chicago   When Jonathan Toews scored his first goal in Tuesday night’s game, he went up and smashed the glass behind the net,...1753Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-minnesota-timberwolves-need-to-find-a-way-for-kevin-garnett-tom-thibodeau-to-coexist/It’s just sad to see that everybody in that organization didn’t see the same vision.   -- Kevin Garnett to Kevin McHale in an NBA TV interview   It’s hard to forget the glow that radiated from Kevin Garnett the day he came back to Minnesota. Former coach and president of basketball operations Fl...1750Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/remembering-rod-simons/People filter through our lives from the day we’re born until the day we die. Influential people enter our lives and leave them, and we have no control over either of those times. What we do have control over is how we spend the time between those two events.   Make sure those people know how you...1747Tue, 21 Feb 2017 23:05:10 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/home-court-drama-has-been-a-staple-in-gophers-turnaround/Williams Arena rightfully gets lauded as one of the best Big Ten basketball atmospheres when it gets rocking.   That claim is true, partly thanks to the mystique of an almost 90-year-old structure. There’s the quirky raised floor, the exposed piping in the walkways and the old tapestries hanging...1742Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/captn-koivu-is-having-a-career-season-leave-the-c/Sports are filled with milestones. Some are statistically significant, while others are just arbitrary thanks to round numbers. Either way, they can be a gauge of how athletes are performing. Hitting 40 home runs in a single major league baseball season is quite the milestone. As the games and poi...1739Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/gophers-top-michigan-in-their-fifth-overtime-game-of-the-season/There aren't many adjectives left to describe this Minnesota Gophers basketball season.   In fact, it may have reached the point where a game like Minnesota's 83-78 overtime triumph over Michigan Sunday evening felt ho-hum. The drama has essentially become a weekly tradition, considering the Goph...1736Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/watch-gophers-talk-tourney-resume-defending-michigan-home-court-drama/It's another huge weekend for the Minnesota Gophers as they host Michigan at The Barn at 6 p.m. Sunday evening. Minnesota's won four in a row; Michigan's won three in a row and is coming off a huge home win over Wisconsin.   We're 11 days from the start of March, which means tournament speculatio...1734Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-flashback-friday-joe-mauer-quarterback/There's a lot of lore that goes with Joe Mauer being from the state of Minnesota. Not only was he a tremendous high school baseball player -- he struck out just once in his career -- and pretty good at basketball, but he was also a pretty darn good quarterback, too.   Mauer actually spurned, if y...1731Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/a-trade-deadline-move-for-the-wild-dont-bank-on-it/With the Wild atop the Western Conference and the playoffs a near certainty, Wild fans have now set their sights on the trade deadline in two weeks to ponder additions to the team.   They probably shouldn't get their hopes up.   Many things would suggest that this would be an optimal season for...1729Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/top-ten-candidates-for-33rd-annual-minnesota-mr-hockey-award-announced/The Minnesota Minute Men announced today the Top Ten Candidates for the 33rd Annual Mr. Hockey Award are: Matt Anderson (Holy Family), Noah Cates (Stillwater), Nick Leivermann (Eden Prairie), Ben Meyers (Delano), Micah Miller (Grand Rapids), Casey Mittelstadt (Eden Prairie), Bauer Neudecker (St. L...1726Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/akeem-springs-wins-game-for-gophers-on-a-busted-play/Akeem Springs couldn't find his shooting stroke all evening.   The senior transfer was held scoreless for the first 32 minutes. He finished the night 2 of 13 from the floor.   And he left a hero.   It was a stroke of luck that found Springs as he rebounded his own miss off a deflection from fre...1725Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-clock-is-ticking-on-erik-haula/In the spring of 2014, Erik Haula came bursting onto the scene for the Minnesota Wild. He proved to be a key cog in Mike Yeo's bottom-six down the stretch, and ended up playing a pivotal role for the Wild (shutting down Nathan MacKinnon) as they upset the Colorado Avalanche in round one of the Sta...1724Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/theory-less-is-more-with-joe-mauer/It’s easy to look at the numbers and say Joe Mauer underperformed last season. Maybe underperformed isn’t exactly the right word. Overall, Mauer was better in 2016 than in 2015, and not by a small margin. Though he didn’t stay on the field as much -- 158 games down to 134 -- two of his three tripl...1721Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wolves-fail-to-execute-late-fall-to-cleveland-116-108/The Minnesota Timberwolves were defeated by the Kevin Love-less Cleveland Cavaliers 116-108 on Tuesday night.   Andrew Wiggins' 41-points night came in a losing effort, as the Wolves failed to come up with enough stops to slow down Cleveland late in the final frame.   “We did a lot of good thing...1720Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/is-it-really-that-bad-for-the-nhl-if-the-minnesota-wild-make-the-stanley-cup-finals/When the Minnesota Wild and Columbus Blue Jackets faced off on Dec. 31 of last year, there were two main storylines. 1) This was a historic matchup of two streaking teams -- the Wild had won 12 straight; the Jackets, 14. And 2) The NHL wouldn’t be all that happy if these two teams met in the Stanl...1716Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-gophers-have-turned-a-corner-two-thirds-of-the-way-through-the-big-ten-season/Through 12 topsy-turvy Big Ten games, the Gophers have leveled out at 6-6, tied for sixth in the Big Ten standings and in position for a No. 8 seed in the Big Dance, according to ESPN’s Joe Lunardi.   In a season of streaks resembling a haiku (three wins, five losses, three wins), Minnesota’s suc...1715Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wolves-rout-shorthanded-bulls-117-89/Target Center was at capacity for Sunday's matinee, in which the Minnesota Timberwolves defeated the Dwyane Wade- Jimmy Butler and Nikola Mirotic-less Chicago Bulls, 117-89.   Five different players finished with double-digit scoring totals for the Wolves, who held an opponent to under 100 points...1714Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/its-been-one-year-since-the-wild-fired-mike-yeo/One year ago, the Minnesota Wild played a home game against Boston for a Saturday matinee. It was another frustrating game in a string of losses that made up the latest Winter Swoon for the Wild. It seemed to some fans that the players quit on their coach. It seemed like it was rock bottom and the...1709Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/two-twins-prospects-among-baseball-americas-top-100/Vaunted industry publication Baseball America released its Top-100 prospects list on Friday night. Unlike recent years, the Minnesota Twins did not have much of a presence near the top -- or at all, for that matter -- with just two players placing on the entire list.   Here's the top-five for tho...1707Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/tom-thibodeau-on-timberwolves-defense-if-you-cant-play-with-intensity-you-wont-win/When the Minnesota Timberwolves hired Tom Thibodeau as head coach and president of basketball operations last summer, it was obvious the organization wanted to be serious about improving its defense. It was a defense that allowed 106 points per game (ranked 23rd in the NBA) and had a defensive rat...1706Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/watch-pitino-previews-rutgers-teammates-praise-murphy/Still flying high off a double-overtime win versus Iowa, the Gophers have a quick turnaround with a road game at Rutgers Saturday morning at 11 a.m. local time.   Center Reggie Lynch and Akeem Springs spoke Friday morning and praised Jordan Murphy for his career-high performance against Iowa on W...1705Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/twins-flashback-friday-paul-molitor-takes-a-hike/So this week's Flashback Friday is Twins-related on a technicality. It's about current Minnesota Twins manager Paul Molitor from his last year with the Toronto Blue Jays (1995), which is the season before he joined the Twins to wrap up his illustrious, Hall of Fame career.   Plus, it's just too g...1703Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000