The Avs need to put the Wild (and their fans) out of their misery tonight.  Strike quick, strike hard, and be done with them.  None of that lazy crap that dominated the first two periods of game...

Sprinkled throughout the 400+ comments to Mike Russo's blog today are calls for (or just speculation about) Marian Gaborik to be traded from the Wild.Man, the guy scores 40 goals in the regular...

Even casual readers of this blog are probably aware that I haven't been the biggest supporter of Jose Theodore during his two years with the with the team. His inconsistency and propensity for soft...

photos courtesy of AP Jose Theodore has come a very long way over the past season.  If there was any one complaint many of us still harbored about him, it was that he still wasn't really...

We paid $6 million, and instead of a lousy t-shirt we got a kick-ass goalie. It just took a while. Yep, I never thought I'd write that either, but Jose Theodore has had a great series, and this...

I'm not sure that I'll be able to get these words all out before I break out into uncontrollable laughter. But, I'm going to try. Today, Mike Russo found a way to top the absurdity of his punching...

With emotions from Game 4 still running high, I figured the game thread today couldn't be posted too soon.  We saw the Wild's true colors come out on Tuesday, with cheap shots and attempts to...

You know, we all saw the game last night. The way the Wild - and especially Stephane Veilleux - lost control is either pitiful or downright hilarious depending on your mood. (Lately, I'm leaning...

Well, that was different. After three overtime nail-biters, game four in Denver last night was anything but. After watching a tired Avalanche team struggle through overtime less than 24 hours...

How a team wins can say a lot about them.  How a team loses can say even more.  If that's true, then the resounding message from the Minnesota Wild's 5-1 loss to the Avalanche last night was...