https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/page/203/?d=4WordPress Posts: WordPress Postsenhttps://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/how-close-are-the-wolves-to-maxing-out-their-potential/I was watching the Minnesota Timberwolves blow out the Oklahoma City Thunder with my partner last Wednesday. They are new to basketball, but they’ve already got the itch. They said to me, “Sometimes the Wolves look unstoppable. Why can’t they play like this all the time?” A fair question that I th...12408Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/mats-zuccarello-is-helping-the-wild-win-with-and-without-kaprizov/The Minnesota Wild entered Saturday night with nearly $40 million in cap space out of the lineup. Three of its top four defensemen, all gone. Their No. 1 center? Outta the lineup. Its superstar, must-see winger? Yup, he's gone, too. What about their starting goaltender? C'mon, do you even have to...12405Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/matt-boldy-and-the-iowa-wild-stopped-the-bleeding-in-minnesota/The Minnesota Wild sat atop the NHL on Dec. 10th, 2011. It was all downhill from there, as significant injuries not only knocked the Wild off first place but out of the playoffs entirely. Back then, all it took was injuries to strike Mikko Koivu, Pierre-Marc Bouchard, Devin Setoguchi, and Guillaum...12404Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wolves-are-finally-winning-the-games-they-should-win/After yet another convincing win over the Houston Rockets, the Minnesota Timberwolves are 20-20 and .500 on the season. All that talk about Patrick Beverley bringing a winning culture was true. It manifested itself in the preseason, and the results have been seen simply due to Beverley’s presence...12402Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-2002-twins-were-the-most-important-team-in-franchise-history/The Minnesota Twins have had many great teams throughout their history. The 1965 Twins gave Minnesota its first taste of success in professional sport, and the 1987 and 1991 Twins won World Series Championships. The 2006 Twins made an unbelievable run to a division title, and the 2019 Twins will b...12399Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-most-and-least-exciting-head-coaching-candidates-for-the-vikings/It might be time to reconsider tipping the cap to head coach Mike Zimmer for his tenure in Minnesota before Week 18's finale. On Sunday afternoon the now-former Minnesota Vikings head coach's put his legacy in serious question on his way out the door. With Justin Jefferson -- the face of the franc...12398Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/mike-zimmer-went-out-on-his-own-terms/Mike Zimmer took a moment before the Minnesota Vikings' final game this season. Sitting on Minnesota's bench in front of an empty stadium, we'll never know what he was thinking about as he took it all in. He probably didn't expect the Chicago Bears to be ahead 14-3 at halftime in a game where he s...12397Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/potential-wasnt-enough-to-keep-rem-pitlick-in-minnesota/The Minnesota Wild placed Rem Pitlick on waivers Tuesday. A day later, the Montreal Canadiens claimed him off of waivers. The Habs are reuniting Pitlick with his brother Rhett, who Montreal selected in the fifth round of the 2019 draft. The Wild were surely hoping he would pass through waivers and...12395Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-are-at-a-crossroads-and-need-to-rediscover-their-vigor/The 2021 Minnesota Vikings season has officially come to a close. While the Vikings played plenty of games with climactic finishes, the season itself couldn't have ended on a sleepier note. The last three games were lethargic affairs. Don't take my word for that. Take Justin Jefferson's after the...12394Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-eagles-and-vikings-went-down-separate-paths-after-the-nfc-championship-game/Let's flashback for a second. The Minnesota Vikings were coming off a thrilling win over the New Orleans Saints before losing 38-7 to the Philadelphia Eagles in the 2017 NFC Championship.   The Vikings relied heavily on defense. They had so much cap space that they could take on Sam Bradford’s co...12391Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wilfs-need-to-start-acting-like-the-vikings-are-a-premier-destination/The Minnesota Vikings' built their practice facility on the old Northwest Airlines headquarters property in Eagan. It's a compound built to turn supreme athletes into superstars. There are four full-sized practice fields. An indoor/outdoor weight room with enough equipment to tire out a bodybuilde...12388Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/why-is-jaden-mcdaniels-so-much-better-coming-off-the-bench/Jaden McDaniels has started the past four games for the Minnesota Timberwolves. Although the roster was a shell of its former self due to COVID, the record in those four games is a microcosm of what’s been developing throughout the season. The Wolves finished 1-3 over that four game stretch. Of co...12384Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/kevin-fiala-will-get-his-chance-to-be-the-guy/For the last calendar year, Kevin Fiala's been under the shadow of Kirill Kaprizov. Dolla Bill Kirill took the league by storm and slowly, unintentionally, started pushing Fiala out of the picture.   Kaprizov got the best linemates while Fiala skated with misfits in Marcus Johansson and Freddy Ga...12383Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/should-minnesota-explore-a-malik-beasley-trade/The Malik Beasley experience has been a wild ride. I’ve loved watching him play with unending amounts of energy, passion, and, of course, confidence. As they say, Malik has never seen a shot he didn’t like.   Last year, Beasley was terrific for the Timberwolves. His 4-year, $60 million contract w...12382Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/2-purple-dreams-and-1-bears-nightmare-2/As often as the Minnesota Vikings face the Chicago Bears in the season's final game, this one feels a bit different due to the whole out-of-the-playoffs thing. This game has a very melancholy vibe thanks to last week’s fiasco, but let’s see what the game can tell us about the future of this team –...12380Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/can-ant-take-another-big-leap-in-the-second-half/Anthony Edwards’ rookie season was exciting. Finishing as the 2021 KIA Rookie of the Year Runner-Up, on top of numerous posterizing dunks, someone who didn’t pay much attention to the first overall pick may have thought he was solid throughout all of last season.   But fans of the Minnesota Timbe...12379Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wolves-have-encountered-a-new-pandemic-problem/There were about five minutes left in the fourth quarter when Patrick Beverley started barking at the bench. The Minnesota Timberwolves had blown a 19-point lead they had built up in the middle of the third quarter. They led the Oklahoma City Thunder 85-83 but should have been up by over 20. Hell,...12377Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-wild-should-be-concerned-about-their-goaltending/The Minnesota Wild dropped a stinker in front of more than 38,000 fans as they welcomed the St. Louis Blues for the State of Hockey’s first-ever Winter Classic on Saturday. With injuries to Jared Spurgeon and Joel Eriksson Ek, a COVID-positive Jonas Brodin, and a whopping 11 days without a game, t...12375Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/patrick-beverley-sets-minnesota-timberwolves-culture/Look around the Target Center this season. Even the most ardent Minnesota Timberwolves fan will hardly recognize what’s happening. We haven't seen an air and an edge to the Wolves since the Kevin Garnett era.   The culture of losing is slowly but surely changing, and the engine driving the cultur...12371Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-winter-classic-couldve-been-so-much-more-with-rossi-and-boldy/The news of the Minnesota Wild recalling top prospects Matthew Boldy and Marco Rossi left one big question in the State of Hockey: Why now? Why make these moves one game after the Winter Classic, their biggest regular-season game ever? Why waste such an excellent opportunity to treat your fans to...12370Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/why-would-the-wild-want-to-trade-for-a-defenseman/The NHL's March 21 Trade Deadline is still over two months away, but the rumor mill is starting to ramp up. On Wednesday, we saw the first potentially impactful trade since Jack Eichel's move to Vegas, when the Pittsburgh Penguins acquired Alex Nylander from the Chicago Blackhawks.   The Blackhaw...12368Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/mike-zimmer-has-entered-full-two-weeks-mode/Mike Zimmer was in a bad mood when he stepped up to the podium on Sunday night. The Minnesota Vikings had just been stomped by the Green Bay Packers. His job security was hanging in the balance. To top it off, he had to address the media to tell them what happened.   Zimmer was brief and blunt. H...12366Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/will-anything-that-happens-in-the-bears-game-affect-what-minnesota-does-in-the-offseason/The regular-season finale between the Minnesota Vikings and Chicago Bears has little in the way of intrigue. Entering the season, it was circled as a game that had the potential for serious playoff-seeding implications. That will definitely not be the case. Any interest here lies with all the swir...12364Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/jarred-vanderbilt-has-mastered-his-ability-as-a-cutter/Jarred Vanderbilt’s improvements have been one of the most significant developments within the Minnesota Timberwolves that have correlated to success. He always had spurts of production last year, quickly becoming a fan favorite after wreaking havoc in blowouts. He was rewarded for his efforts, fi...12362Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000https://wolvesdaily.com/news-rumors/front-page/the-vikings-are-going-to-win-on-sunday-because-of-course-they-are/The Minnesota Vikings enter Sunday’s final game of the 2021 season in full Groundhog Day mode after the disaster in Green Bay ended Minnesota’s playoffs hopes. However, unlike the 1993 box office hit, there is no end in sight. Regardless of Sunday’s outcome against the Chicago Bears, the Vikings h...12361Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 +0000