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[edit] Wild Front Office Location

Question: Isn't the wild based in Minneapolis, not St. Paul?

ANSWER: The Wild are (not "is") based in St. Paul, in the sense that they play in the Xcel Energy Center in downtown St. Paul. The location of their office seems a bit of a mystery, but the phone number has a St. Paul area code.

Clarification: As far as I know, Minnesota Sports and Entertainment (parent company of the Minnesota Wild) is based at 317 Washington Street, St. Paul, MN. It is connected to the entire Xcel Energy Center/RiverCentre complex. — wheresmysocks 04:14, 10 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] List of Minnesota Wild players

I have just completed the List of Minnesota Wild players. As of the end of the 2003-04 NHL season, the list is 100% accurate. Let's work together and keep it accurate and up to date. When you add a new player to the main Wild page, could you also add it to the list? Thanks! Masterhatch 12 August 2005

[edit] Current Squad Work

moved to article ccwaters 12:46, 25 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Willie Mitchell?

We have the wrong Willie Mitchell listed in the Minnesot Wild article, Captain (ice hockey) article, & other articles related to the Minnesota Wild. There's the R&B guy & the hockey player. Part of this mistake is mine. Not sure how to correct it.GoodDay 21:56, 6 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Rivals

How verifiable and NPOV are the rivalries? --x-Flare-x 09:51, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

That's the same question I asked over at the Mighty Ducks page. Rivalries seem kinda pointless (especially for teams whose rivals are almost half the league, like Toronto) -- I wonder what we even have them in the first place. --Buchanan-Hermit 10:04, 24 January 2006 (UTC)

Especially since the Rivals lists see additions on the basis that Team X played two games against Our Glorious Boys within the last month and there were fights and stick fouls, so of course Team X is now Those Bastards. My notion of Rivals are in the Boston-Montreal, Edmonton-Calgary, Philadelphia-Pittsburgh, Toronto-Ottawa camp; time-honored ones spanning over quite a few seasons at least, with a great number of recent expansion teams left off the premise altogether, and not based around "we had a nasty series with them in the playoffs last year." Of course, that's pretty POV, and I'd be comfy with Rivals disappearing altogether. RGTraynor 15:12, 24 January 2006 (UTC)


-Current Rivals Vancouver- It all started when Jason Marshall, while playing for the Wild took a sucker punch to the face during the 2001-02 season by Matt Cooke. Matt Johnson tried several times during the next couple of meeting to land a huge hit and start a fight with Cooke. Cooke would be a baby and skate away. Then it really intensifed the during the 2002-03 season in the playoffs when the series went to 7 games. The series was marked with cheap hits and close games. Willie Mitchell was hit along the boards by Todd Bertuzzi in game 3 breaking his jaw. Matt Johnson was slashed across the legs as Game 2 ended. The Wild trailed the series 3-1 heading to Vancouver for Game 5 and won the next two games.

Colorado- Meet during the queaterfinals of the 2002-03 playoffs. Series went 7 games with the most memorable goal in Minnesota Wild history to date was scored in overtime of Game 7 by Andrew Brunette sending the Avalanche home for the season and Patrick Roy into retirement.

Dallas- Minnesota's old team. First meeting was December 17, 2000 at Xcel Energy Center. Minnesota won a very emotial game 6-0, marking the first time Mike Modano, Darren Hatcher, and Richard Matvichuk return to Minnesota since 1993 in a regular season game.

[edit] Brian Rolston

I haven't read anything, that says the Wild have named a new captain for MARCH 2006. Therefore, I'm going to assume Brian Rolston is the captain for MARCH, as February was interrupted by the Winter Olympics (causing Rolston's FEBRUARY captaincy to have covered few games). If anyone objects, just reverse my edit (in the Minnesota Wild article). GoodDay 19:34, 4 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Now that the season ('05-'06)...?

Since the Wild season has ended, should we declare the rotating captaincy & alternate captaincies vacant (for the off-season), as Walz ,Rolston & Gaborik aren't gurenteed the 'letters' for October 2006? GoodDay 18:12, 17 April 2006 (UTC)

I recommend leaving the captaincy information as it is unless you have a verifiable source stating that the captaincy is vacant. -- JamesTeterenko 02:39, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
No one's "guaranteed" jack for any team; if Steve Yzerman doesn't retire, even he isn't guaranteed the captaincy for the Wings. Beyond that, James is right. It's highly presumptuous for us to "declare" anything vacant for any team absent their own announcements on the subject, or in the case of player transactions or retirements. RGTraynor 06:29, 18 April 2006 (UTC)
You're right. It should be left as-is until or if a change is announced. Now, if the guy gets traded or retires in the off-season, a footnote could be added. Wahkeenah 09:20, 18 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Concerning the alternate logo

I just realized while moving the alternate logo around, that the logo -- while alternate -- is not the third jersey logo, which is pretty much the standard alternate logo for all other team articles which have a third jersey. Is there any reason for this? I have a hunch it is because Minnesota's third jersey logo is just the same as the regular logo, except in a circle and with a throwback sort of feel to it. If that's the case, changing the logo from their shoulder patch to the third jersey logo probably wouldn't be best, huh? Since I'd considered it.-Resident Lune 18:52, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

Just a matter of timing. If I remember correctly, the "alternate" logo was actually the first logo revealed after the team chose its name. The sweater crest didn't come along until they revealed the jersey. Either way, both existed well before the Wild's third jersey came out in season four. — wheresmysocks 23:15, 13 July 2006 (UTC)


-The current shoulder patch on the home/away sweaters are indeed the first logo reveled.

[edit] Jersey Colors

For those wondering about the jersey color names, you can find them scattered around the Wild's website including their description of the third jersey. Wheresmysocks 20:57, Dec 23, 2004 (UTC)

Since the page announcing the unveiling of the third jersey has disappeared, I did find this in several copies of game notes for reference. — wheresmysocks 23:21, 13 July 2006 (UTC)
WILD UNVEIL NEW THIRD JERSEY - The Minnesota Wild unveiled a new Third Jersey on October 16. The Third Jersey incorporates the same colors found in the current Wild home and away jerseys. The main color is Iron Range Red, with Forest Green stripes on the bottom band and shoulders of the jersey highlighted by Minnesota Wheat trim. The new crest features the team's traditional animal head mark in a classic chenille icon with the team name, Minnesota Wild, offset by a Harvest Gold North Star on each side of the logo. The new Third Jersey celebrates the heritage of hockey with a traditional laceup collar in Minnesota Wheat. In keeping with the simplicity of design and vintage look of the new Third Jersey, no shoulder patches were created. The Minnesota Wild wore the new Third Jersey a total of 14 times in 2003-04. The Wild wore the Third Jersey exclusively at home to honor its fans.

[edit] Re: List of Minnesota Wild players

What about Josh Harding? I know on their website he is not on the current roster, but under the "In the system" section. However, he will most likely be their backup as only Fernandez is on the current roster.

He's currently not on the roster, so he shouldn't be listed on the "Current Squad". Its wierd in the offseason though, He will most likely be included in the training camp roster (30+ players). After that, who knows? There's 2+ months before the season starts. The wild could sign or trade for a backup. ccwaters 14:16, 18 July 2006 (UTC)


Josh Harding is the starting goaltender for the Houston Aeros of the AHL. Nicklas Backstrom is the back-up to Manny Fernandez and as played well.

[edit] The tags

Here's my reasoning behind adding the tags to this article:

--Muéro(talk/c) 06:34, 1 October 2006 (UTC)

FYI you can say POV instead of non-NPOV. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 01:18, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clean-up

Also, I'm working on a little more expanded team history article, hopefully suitable for replacing the current text. — wheresmysocks 02:57, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

Can you just work right in the article? It can't get much worse. I would like to improve it as well. -Ravedave (help name my baby) 03:22, 3 October 2006 (UTC)
I'll post what I have at the end of the night if I can get that far. I'll have a good chunk of history from the North Stars' departure in 1993 up until the awarding of the expansion franchise in 1997, and probably whatever happened between then and the existing text about the seasons. I haven't edited or changed any text that currently exists in the article. I was thinking about splitting the season-by-season information that's currently there into a few separate sections:
  • Early seasons.
  • Playoff run.
  • Post-playoffs, lockout.
  • Post-lockout and this season, anticipation of new roster changes.
You could start in on converting that stuff over to a more wikified paragraph format if you're looking for something to do the rest of the night. — wheresmysocks 03:43, 3 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Founded

The team was Offically Founded I believe in 1997 since Minnesota was awarded the franhise in that year and the 2000 is incorrect, and it states this on Minnesota Wild Offical page, The teams First year and inageral season is 2000 that part is correct.--Chad 03:25, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

Our standard is to use the date a team first plays as the founding year. Otherwise (especially with franchise shifts and dormancies) the year listings would be a mess and certainly uninformative. RGTraynor 15:24, 20 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Franchise history

I had some text written up for the franchise history that I intended to finish but never got around to. I've added the raw notes and text to a user page in the hopes that someone might finish it. Although from some of the text that was added recently, it might be sufficient to just work the existing text into a more narrative format and append it to a cleaned up version of stuff I've written. It covers the period leading up to and after the departure of the North Stars and ends before the awarding of the franchise. — wheresmysocks 04:20, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Gretzky Retiremnt

Put up a factual dispute due to the fact that most of the other NHL team pages list the date of league wide retirement as Feb. 6, 2000, whereas here it's listed as April 18, 1999 BT14 06:29, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

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