https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/page/7/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/sims-steps-up-late-to-lead-lynx-over-sky/With under a minute to play on Wednesday night in Chicago, the Minnesota Lynx appeared to be on the verge of blowing a 13-point lead in the second half to fall on the road in the middle of a three-game road trip.   That was until Odyssey Sims decided to take the game over.   With 11.2 seconds re...6901Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-minnesota-wilds-best-and-worst-free-agent-signings/The free agency period brings a lot of good and (mainly) bad contracts into the league. More often than not you will find NHL general managers trying to maneuver their way out of the deals they sign players to on July 1 just a couple of years into those long-term deals.   Taking a trip down memor...6899Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2019-minnesota-wild-year-end-player-review-luke-kunin/Luke Kunin Age: 21 Position: Center/Right Wing 2018-19 Stats: 6G-11A-17P Contract Status: One year remaining on entry-level contract at $925,000 AAV (RFA in 2020) Entering his first full season of professional hockey, Luke Kunin began the year in Iowa. Not to forget, Kunin was also comin...6893Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/photos-matthew-wolff-wins-3m-open-with-dramatic-putt-on-18th-hole/All photos by Brian Curski Photography.   [gallery type=slideshow" td_select_gallery_slide="slide" size="large" columns="1" td_gallery_title_input="3M Open" ids="52145,52146,52147,52148,52149,52158,52150,52151,52152,52154,52155,52156]6891Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-begin-road-trip-with-comeback-win-over-sun/The Minnesota Lynx began a three-game road trip on Sunday afternoon with a tough test against one of the top teams in the WNBA this season.   The Lynx were able to handle that challenge well to kick off the road trip on the right foot, taking down the Connecticut Sun 74-71 at Mohegan Sun Arena.  ...6888Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/notebook-perez-faces-oldfriends-injury-updates-and-all-star-roster-clarification/After one of his finest starts of the season against the Tampa Bay Rays, Martin Perez is slated to take on a unique challenge this time out -- facing the only other team he’s ever known.   Perez is facing the Texas Rangers on Friday night, the team signed him as an amateur free agent back in 2007...6886Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-wild-need-to-be-in-on-nikita-gusev/On Monday it appeared as if general manager Paul Fenton got a good look at what his Minnesota Wild roster for the 2019-20 season was going to look like when he signed Mats Zuccarello and Ryan Hartman to multi-year deals. The signing of the two forwards have created a bit of a logjam up top for the...6879Wed, 03 Jul 2019 11:17:34 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-bounce-back-to-blow-out-dream/The Minnesota Lynx bounced back following Sunday's last-second loss to the Dallas Wings in a big way on Tuesday night back home in Minneapolis.   The Lynx blew out the Atlanta Dream 85-68 at Target Center to secure their third win in the last four games.   With the win, Minnesota improved to 7-6...6878Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/injury-riddled-lynx-announce-addition-of-two-players/The Minnesota Lynx made a pair of additions to their suddenly shorthanded roster on Tuesday morning.   Ahead of Tuesday night’s game at home against the Atlanta Dream, the Lynx officially announced they have signed forward Asia Taylor and guard Kenisha Bell.     The news comes a day after...6873Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-mailbag-sims-injuries-and-adding-to-the-roster/The Minnesota Lynx enter a new week in the 2019 WNBA season in the middle of the pack in the league standings as they officially surpass the one-third mark in the regular season schedule.   The Lynx head into Tuesday night's game against the Atlanta Dream with a record of 6-6 overall, sitting tie...6871Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/shorthanded-lynx-blow-lead-late-in-loss/The Minnesota Lynx have had to deal with their fair share of injuries already throughout the 2019 WNBA regular season.   On Sunday, the Lynx were faced with that obstacle once again. And it caught up to them in the final minutes of the game.   Minnesota, shorthanded with only having eight player...6867Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/once-again-the-minnesota-twins-are-feeling-the-effects-of-extra-inning-baseball/Stop me if this sounds familiar: The Minnesota Twins are facing an American League Central opponent on the road following an extra-innings affair with key players missing.   This time they’re playing the Chicago White Sox, not the Kansas City Royals, and it’s following an 18-inning loss, not a 17...6863Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/value-shopping-for-free-agent-wingers/It is no secret the Minnesota Wild are in the market for a free agent winger to bolster their stagnant offense from the end of last season.   Thursday we highlighted some of the high profile free agent right shot wingers and measuring their impact they would bring to the team in terms of Wins Abo...6861Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/we-got-the-best-rookie-collier-thriving-in-rookie-year/The Minnesota Lynx entered the 2019 WNBA Draft in somewhat unfamiliar territory.   The Lynx have generally been one of the teams in the league in contention for a WNBA title annually and therefore have found themselves holding a lower pick in the draft year after year.   After getting bounced in...6857Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-survive-second-half-collapse-secure-second-straight-win/One continuous issue the Minnesota Lynx have dealt with so far this season has been building up leads to only see them disappear in the second half.   On Tuesday night in Indiana, that was once the case and it nearly cost them yet another game.   After jumping out to a 22-point lead during an im...6851Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/after-shedding-losing-streak-lynx-face-tough-test-on-the-road/After losing four straight games, including three in a row at home in Minneapolis, the Minnesota Lynx bounced back and got on track with a 92-83 win over the New York Liberty on Saturday night that snapped those streaks.   With the win, the Lynx were able to get back to the .500 mark on the seaso...6846Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-kansas-city-royals-have-played-the-minnesota-twins-tough-this-year/On Sunday the Minnesota Twins and Kansas City Royals wore throwback Negro League jerseys. The Royals donned the red-striped white K.C. caps and white jerseys with red sleeves of the Monarchs, the longest-running Negro League team (1920-30). The Twins wore the dark blue uniforms, red belts and whit...6841Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-hold-off-liberty-to-snap-losing-streak/Over the last handful of games, the Minnesota Lynx have struggled with late-game execution and coming away with victories at the end of games.   That resulted in Minnesota coming into Saturday night’s contest at Target Center having lost four straight games, including three in a row in front of i...6840Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/wild-have-all-around-successful-second-day-of-draft/After a very inactive day one of the NHL draft, things began to heat up Saturday morning on the trade front around the NHL as the likes of P.K. Subban and Patrick Marleau among others were traded prior to the opening of the second round.   The Wild and general manager Paul Fenton looked to maybe...6839Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/the-minnesota-twins-have-avoided-a-three-game-losing-streak-once-again/When Martin Maldonado drove in Humberto Arteaga to put the Kansas City Royals up 3-0 in the first inning, it looked like the Minnesota Twins would suffer their third loss in a row for the first time this season. When Martin Perez, Friday’s starter, gave up a three-run home run to Cheslor Cuthbert...6837Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/ferrell-wild-can-no-longer-take-conservative-draft-approach/In the nearly 20-year history of the Minnesota Wild, they have drafted conservatively, to simply put it.   The team -- more specifically general manager Doug Risebrough -- looked as if they were draft geniuses in the first four years, drafting Marian Gaborik, Mikko Koivu, Pierre-Marc Bouchard and...6834Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2019-minnesota-wild-year-end-player-review-eric-fehr/Eric Fehr Age: 33 Position: Right Wing 2018-19 Stats: 7G-8A-15P Contract Status: Unrestricted Free Agent on July 1 ($1 million AAV in 2018-19) With his career being on the line after just 18 games played in 2017-18, Eric Fehr was tossed a lifeline by Paul Fenton and the Wild for a spot o...6830Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/lynx-aim-to-regroup-to-shed-losing-streak/After starting the 2019 WNBA regular season as one of the hottest teams in the league, the Minnesota Lynx have cooled off as of late.   The Lynx jumped to the top of the WNBA standings following the first week of the regular season, starting the year with a perfect 3-0 record and ending up 4-1 af...6825Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/2019-minnesota-wild-year-end-player-review-marcus-foligno/Marcus Foligno Age: 27 Position: Left Wing 2018-19 Stats: 7G-12A-19P Contract Status: Signed for two more seasons through 2021 ($2.875 million AAV) You might not think it given his cap hit, but Marcus Foligno provided the Wild with some great value this past season. No, that value was not...6820Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/featured/rocco-baldelli-on-the-minnesota-twins-unfortunate-eighth-inning-vs-the-boston-red-sox/Jose Berrios and Rick Porcello were locked in a pitcher’s duel for most of Monday night. Porcello and the Boston Red Sox ultimately held the Bombas scoreless, beating the Minnesota Twins 2-0.   The Twins had a chance to tie the game, or take the lead, in the eighth inning once Porcello left the g...6819Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000