Minnesota Wild Equipment Destroyed
by Joe Dunman on Dec 18, 2009 2:56 PM MST
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This is probably bad.
The equipment van of the Minnesota Wild has apparently caught fire and most of the team's gear has been destroyed. Obviously, this is a big deal.
The four most recent updates from the Twitter account of hockey reporter Bob McKenzie:
Minnesota Wild equipment van was in an accident, caught fire and much of the Wild players' equipment has been burned so badly it's toast.
No injuries in the accident, apparently, but if u know anything about NHL players and equipment, especially skates, players are apoplectic.
Wearing a brand new pair of skates or new equipment in an NHL regular season game is no player's idea of fun.
Nik Backstrom's equipment, all of it apparently, is up in smoke. Wild checking with the league to see what their options are. Unprecedented.
UPDATE: Photos available here, here and here. And also here.
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Avs going to Minny on Monday
Wild checking with the league to see what their options are.
Could this mean a potential change in the schedule?
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind - Humphrey Bogart
Naw, I’m guessing a shopping trip.
Jesus Saves! Stewart gets the rebound and scores!
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Dec 18, 2009 3:20 PM MST up reply actions
Wild at Ottawa tomorrow
I can’t imagine they’ll be playing with brand new skates and pads, or will they?
The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind - Humphrey Bogart
I dont know…a one day reprieve?
As noted, I am not a big Peter Budaj fan. Just so everyone knows...you know, so people don't have to point it out every post. That doesn't mean I want him to fail, as some have suggested...that is all
Could this mean a potential change in the schedule?
For tomorrow’s game possibly, maybe a day to at least get a little time in the equipment, or it could be rescheduled for later in the year. For the game against the Avs on Monday, I think it unlikely that game will change.
The 2009-10 Avalanche: Have the wheels fallen off?
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by Americanario on Dec 18, 2009 4:38 PM MST up reply actions
BETTER NOT...
I’ve got tix to that Avs-Wild game, and road trippin’ with a college hockey buddy to it. Both of our first Avs’ games. His first NHL game. Maybe we can steal a win from em now…finally….
"Four goals in sixteen shots... I'm really tired of the...............25% rule." -John Tortorella
Nope according to TSN the game will continue on as planned.
OTTAWA — The Minnesota Wild have been hot lately, but it was Minnesota’s equipment that caught fire Friday and left the NHL team scrambling ahead of its game against the Ottawa Senators.
Much of the team’s gear was damaged when a fire broke out in the back of the cube van carrying the equipment from a practice rink to Scotiabank Place, where Minnesota plays the Senators on Saturday night.
“There was a fire in an equipment van in the parking lot at Scotiabank Place this afternoon. No one was injured, but some of the Minnesota Wild’s hockey equipment was damaged. The Wild is in the process of taking inventory to determine the damage to the equipment,” the team said in a statement.
The statement added that the game would proceed as scheduled, so the Wild were forced to make hasty arrangements in order to get replacement gear in time for the contest.
The Wild had arrived in Ottawa after beating the Canadiens 3-1 in Montreal on Thursday night for its 10th win in the past 13 games.
With Scotiabank Place booked Friday for a showing of the So You Think You Can Dance Live tour, Minnesota practised at the nearby Kanata Recreation Complex.
Afterward, the gear was placed in a cube van and driven five minutes down the road to Scotiabank Place, where the fire department had to be called to the loading dock of the arena just after 2:30 p.m.
The cause of the fire was not known and is said to be under investigation.
According to the team’s website, assistant equipment manager Brent Proulx was to return to Minnesota on Friday night and gather replacement gear with help from other members of the Wild staff.
A plane carrying the NBA’s Milwaukee Bucks home from their game at Cleveland on Friday night was to re-route and bring back the Wild’s equipment to Ottawa early Saturday morning.
With players often being finicky about their gear, it’ll make things difficult for the Wild on Saturday.
It’s been a bad week for Senators opponents in Ottawa.
The Buffalo Sabres were beaten 2-0 on Wednesday night when seven players reportedly suffered food poisoning after eating at an Ottawa steakhouse a night earlier.
Sandie
by Sandie Gauthier on Dec 19, 2009 9:57 AM MST up reply actions
read the article right after i posted… silly me
"Four goals in sixteen shots... I'm really tired of the...............25% rule." -John Tortorella
by esylvester6 on Dec 19, 2009 10:05 AM MST up reply actions
oh yeah, thanks and stuff :)
"Four goals in sixteen shots... I'm really tired of the...............25% rule." -John Tortorella
by esylvester6 on Dec 19, 2009 10:05 AM MST up reply actions
So is this the only way Ottawa can win games? Sabotage their opponents? LOL
No I’m not really accusing anyone of fowl play, it’s just ironic that two teams have had bad things happen to them in Ottawa the day before a game against the home team.
The 2009-10 Avalanche: Have the wheels fallen off?
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Dec 19, 2009 10:36 AM MST up reply actions
From the Vile Website….
"There was a fire in an equipment van in the parking lot at Scotiabank Place this afternoon. Some of the Minnesota Wild’s equipment has been damaged. The Wild is in the process of taking inventory to determine the damage to our equipment."
Assistant Equipment Manager Brent Proulx, who travels with the team tonight, is going to board a plane back to Minnesota tonight. Proulx, Assistant Equipment Manager Matt Benz and Chris Pietrzak-Wegner will gather replacement equipment and load it onto a plane bound for Ottawa at 5:30 AM tomorrow morning.
Mile High Mayhem just another ho-hum Avs blog.
Let me state that I’m happy that no one was hurt:
but….
Boogard must help sick orphans on the side because his stuff just looks wet, which probably only helped the smell.
Jerk.
Jesus Saves! Stewart gets the rebound and scores!
by An Unmitigated Disaster on Dec 18, 2009 3:19 PM MST reply actions
This would be a great time for them to get a real logo and some new colors? Even in that mangled, burned heap of gear that damn logo is still the ugliest thing I see.
Are they sure it isn’t a giant artificial (holiday)tree that burned down?
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Dec 18, 2009 3:21 PM MST reply actions 1 recs
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Dec 18, 2009 3:41 PM MST reply actions
I'm sorry...
I had too much time on my hands last night, and I…just…ummm…well, I found a couple of lighters and…well, CALGARY BUS…YOU’RE NEXT! BAWHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
(hey, we can run all kids of jokes about this, no one got hurt.)
Mile High Mayhem just another ho-hum Avs blog.
Apparently this van has crashed on Evergreen Terrace too…
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Dec 18, 2009 4:13 PM MST up reply actions
there’s a picture of backstrom’s mask that’s completely charred… now, much like all of you, i highly dislike the wild, however, goalie masks are works of art damnit, and seeing that’s just painful
Yes, I heard his one of the worst. Where did you see that picture?
Sandie
by Sandie Gauthier on Dec 18, 2009 4:57 PM MST up reply actions
They were working. Here are the links
http://twitpic.com/u2e4o
http://twitpic.com/u2owa
http://twitpic.com/u2oow
Sandie
by Sandie Gauthier on Dec 18, 2009 5:29 PM MST up reply actions
That’s Wild.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Dec 18, 2009 5:33 PM MST up reply actions
Bills fan? In Colorado? It's more likely than you think.
by UZ on Dec 18, 2009 7:59 PM MST up reply actions
Since no one was hurt
I’ve been laughing for the past hour. Sucks Minny, but I could not care less. I am sure they’d laugh if it happened to us.
Avalanche 2009-2010: Ostensibly, the worst team in the league. Realistically, top of the NW division.
Nobody can argue that the Mild aren’t on a road “hot streak”.
Badumpdump….
2009-2010 Colorado Avalanche - Time to grow a pair, boys!
you win the Internet good sir!
"Four goals in sixteen shots... I'm really tired of the...............25% rule." -John Tortorella
lolololol
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 1:46 PM MST up reply actions
I find this amusing. I live in Ottawa, and earlier this week when they played Buffalo the entire Sabres team had food poisoning from eating at an Ottawa restaurant before the game. A friend at the game told me there was just an ongoing rotation of Sabres players on the bench heading back through the tunnel to the changeroom and back out a few minutes later.
Now, if the Wild are told they have to play tomorrow, there’s more or less two free home wins for the Sens in less then a week. I can’t see the Wild performing well when the whole team will potentially be in new equipment.
by '96 Avs Bandwagon on Dec 18, 2009 5:44 PM MST reply actions
Doesn’t Andrew Burnette play for them?
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Dec 18, 2009 5:46 PM MST reply actions
I don’t know but they sure could have used some Antii Melttinen.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Dec 18, 2009 5:50 PM MST up reply actions
Something Something Something...
…Brent Burns
by '96 Avs Bandwagon on Dec 18, 2009 5:53 PM MST up reply actions
And this is what you win! CLICK HERE (safe)
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Dec 18, 2009 5:55 PM MST up reply actions
That sound is surprisingly depressing without the theme song immediately following it.
by '96 Avs Bandwagon on Dec 18, 2009 6:00 PM MST up reply actions
Someone forgot to tell Darek Booguard not to freebase on the bus.
Mile High Mayhem just another ho-hum Avs blog.
Having sat through that snooze fest
from a couple of weeks ago at the Pepsi Center, thinking the Wild owed me money back on my tickets (and they were free), I really have a hard time not thinking this was just Karma being a bitch.
Dr. Steve Brule's take:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEEZnEYVD6s&feature=related
"Four goals in sixteen shots... I'm really tired of the...............25% rule." -John Tortorella
Wild equipment bus
consumed by conflagration
will they win again?
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Holy Smokes
!
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by Hardshell_Taco_del_Lowayne on Dec 19, 2009 8:56 AM MST reply actions
Happy Birthday Dario!!
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oh god, you guys are too funny.
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 1:48 PM MST reply actions
we’re just getting warmed up.
The 2009-10 Avalanche: Have the wheels fallen off?
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Dec 19, 2009 2:59 PM MST up reply actions
C’mon baby light my fire
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:32 PM MST reply actions
went down
down
down
and the flames went highter
and it burns
burns
burns
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:34 PM MST up reply actions
that ring of fire
ring of fire
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:34 PM MST up reply actions
And the days of vanity
Went on forever
And he saw his days burn up
Like paper in fire
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:38 PM MST up reply actions
After the fire the fire still burns
The heart grows older but never ever learns
The memories smoulder and the soul always yearns
After the fire the fire still burns
I heard a voice asking what happens after the fire
And then the sound of a breaking window and the scream of a tyre
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:41 PM MST up reply actions
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
A fire of unknown origin
Took my baby away
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:42 PM MST up reply actions
I got to be smokin’
So I know without a doubt
Where there’s the smoke
There’s the fire, so I gotta boot it out
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:43 PM MST up reply actions
Burn beacon fires, blow horns of doom
Sinister ascendancy, death’s coming soon
We shall take the fire everywhere
And all our enemies shall burn, yeah
In the fire they all shall die…
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:45 PM MST up reply actions
and i shall leave you with that one. lol
You mean the Avs aren't going to get the top draft pick this summer???
by BeachNSnowGirl on Dec 19, 2009 6:45 PM MST up reply actions
mmmmmmm… bacon.
I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
by Pinchy The Lobster on Dec 19, 2009 6:51 PM MST up reply actions
So where the Wild smokin in the boys room?
The 2009-10 Avalanche: Have the wheels fallen off?
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Dec 19, 2009 10:23 PM MST up reply actions
were
The 2009-10 Avalanche: Have the wheels fallen off?
I'm The Canary - but I'm not cute nor cuddly, and I don't sing.
by Americanario on Dec 19, 2009 10:23 PM MST up reply actions
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