The Minnesota Wild are the latest team to be linked to this season's hottest veteran impending UFA trade target.

Brodin also chipped in with a rare goal in the first period. His blast from the point came right from a clean faceoff win by Nico Sturm and beat Stuart Skinner for a 1-0 lead with just under seven minutes left. It was just Brodin’s third goal of the season and first since Nov. 1 versus the Vancouver Canucks.

Last weekend, the Minnesota Wild beat the Colorado Avalanche. Defeating one of your biggest divisional rivals that entered the game on a double-digit winning streak is enough reason to play Shout as loud as the sound system at Grand Casino Arena can handle.

The Edmonton Oilers lost 1-0 to the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday, with the team unable to solve goaltender Jesper Wallstedt despite outshooting Minnesota 33-24 overall.

The Wild could split up Kaprizov and Boldy, and the Marcus Johansson-Eriksson Ek-Boldy line has been their main shutdown group. It allowed the likes of Foligno, Nico Sturm and Yakov Trenin to play together (when healthy).

Let’s start with the positive. Despite the Iowa Wild’s well-documented struggles in recent years, the Minnesota Wild’s roster features five young players who have spent significant time with their AHL affiliate over the past four seasons: Marco Rossi,

Wallstedt shut out the defending NHL Western Conference champs on the road, his league-leading fourth whitewash of the season.

The Minnesota Wild have been in heavy trade rumours with another name from the Vancouver Canucks being linked to the Wild alongside Kiefer Sherwood. Kirk Day breaks down the reports from Elliotte Friedman surrounding Conor Garland and why a trade to the Wild would follow some serious moves from Minnesota.

Friday night's Wild game against the Colorado Avalanche sounded different from the opening face off, with the entire broadcast called in Ojibwe​ as part of Native American Heritage Day.

Noah Ostlund scored the winner in a shootout and the Buffalo Sabres snapped the Minnesota Wild’s seven-game winning streak with a 3-2 victory.