Dany Heatley

Pierre-Marc Bouchard has spent 11 years in Minnesota, playing for three head coaches and two front office regimes while battling concussions that sidelined him for almost 150 games over four seasons. The Wild's second ever first-round draft pick and...

Those July 4 fireworks that shook the Twin Cities seem an eternity ago. Expectations were gigantic on that balmy summer day when the Wild persuaded Zach Parise and Ryan Suter to spurn other suitors and sign with Minnesota. That was the boom. On...

Jason Pominville fired a bad-angle shot that caromed off Chicago Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford onto the waiting stick of Mikko Koivu out front. The maligned Wild captain had the right side of the net open. He had Crawford in a bind, an ideal scenario...

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...

Even though winger Dany Heatley remains sidelined by a shoulder injury, the Wild hope to put four strong and somewhat balanced lines on the ice when they take on the Chicago Blackhawks in their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series that begins Tuesday,...

The Wild should get a much-needed boost for Game 1 of its first-round playoff series against the Chicago Blackhawks with the return of right winger Jason Pominville. Pominville, who missed the final two regular-season games after being elbowed in the...

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...

One day after the jubilation of a big Wild victory in front of an electric crowd that verified how much it's craving the Wild's first postseason in five years, all attention turned to the health of Jason Pominville. The last we saw of Pominville on...

The Minnesota Wild have recalled rookie left wing Jason Zucker from the AHL to help their struggling offense.   The move was made on Friday, after the Wild were shut out by St. Louis and Chicago this week. Minnesota had lost five of seven.   The 21-...

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The speculation and apocrypha surrounding "cover curses" in sports go back at least as far as the "Sports Illustrated cover jinx." In the age of video games, the "Madden Curse" has taken up the mantle as the most hotly-debated superstition in sports...

The Detroit Red Wings went on a historic run: only eight NHL teams have come back from a 3-0 deficit to play a game seven in the playoffs.  With more than a dozen guys who played for the Grand Rapids Griffins, Thursday night was a big night in...