Clayton Stoner

Chuck Fletcher was staring at the ceiling at 3:30 a.m. early Saturday morning. He couldn't sleep. The Minnesota Wild general manager doesn't sleep much anyway, he said, but this time something was keeping him up. Fletcher was running different offseason...

Had he known beforehand that his team would attempt 68 shots Tuesday, coach Mike Yeo never would have believed the Wild would get shut out by Chicago. Then again, he never would have expected almost 40 percent of those chances to be snuffed out before...

Offense The Hawks roll four lines and finished second in the NHL with an average of 3.10 goals per game. Center Dave Bolland is battling a groin injury, but if he's at full strength, a shift back to the third line could be in order as Michal Handzus has...

SportsDirect Inc. Preview: Blackhawks at Wild The Presidents' Trophy-winning Chicago Blackhawks are rounding into form after two games of their Western Conference first-round series against the eighth-seeded Minnesota Wild. The Blackhawks will attempt...

There should be no surprises this time around regarding the Minnesota Wild's starting goaltender. Josh Harding will get the call for the Wild when they face the Chicago Blackhawks in Game 2 of the Western Conference quarterfinals Friday night at the...

In the Blackhawks' most important moment of the season to date — Game 1 of the playoffs — no player had a bigger presence on the ice than Michal Rozsival. The veteran defenseman logged the Hawks' most ice time when they opened their...

The top-seeded Chicago Blackhawks got the result they wanted to open their Western Conference first-round series against the eighth-seeded Minnesota Wild, but the game was full of surprises. Chicago will try for a more conventional victory when it hosts...

The cost of being a Blackhawks fan is going up. The team has begun sending invoices to season ticket holders for 2013-14, and prices are increasing by an average of 16 percent. The cheapest ticket will rise from $28 to $36 — the highest increase...

CHICAGO (AP) — Minnesota Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom and defenseman Clayton Stoner didn't practice yesterday, increasing the possibility they will be unavailable for Game 2 tonight against the Chicago Blackhawks. Wild forward Jason Pominville...

Not a half-hour after clinching the franchise's first playoff berth in five years, Wild coach Mike Yeo was asked about the next challenge. His team had just overcome a poor month of hockey and hung on in the final game of the regular season to advance...

Calgary's Mikael Backlund scored the game-winner with 8:50 to play after the team's traded first-period goals. Backlund scored a rebound goal at the doorstep after Lee Stepniak beat Wild defenseman Brett Clark cleanly. His initial bid was stopped by...

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Road rage, indeed. The losing goalie, Jonathan Quick, went straight to red hot anger without even stopping for a second at plain-old ire after the Kings blew a two-goal lead, losing to the Minnesota Wild, 4-3, in a shootout on...