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National Hockey League team in Saint Paul, Minnesota

Minnesota Wild
2021–22 Minnesota Wild season
Conference	Western
Segmentation	Central
Founded	2000
History	Minnesota Wild 2000–present
Dwelling arena	Xcel Energy Center
City	Saint Paul, Minnesota
Colors	Wood green, atomic number 26 range ruby-red, harvest gold, Minnesota wheat[1] [two]
Media	Bally Sports North KFAN (100.3 FM)
Owner(s)	Craig Leipold
Full general manager	Bill Guerin
Head double-decker	Dean Evason
Captain	Jared Spurgeon
Minor league affiliates	Iowa Wild (AHL) Iowa Heartlanders (ECHL)
Stanley Cups	0
Conference championships	0
Presidents' Bays	0
Partitioning championships	1 (2007–08)
Official website	world wide web.nhl.com/wild

The Minnesota Wild are a professional person ice hockey team based in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The Wild competes in the National Hockey League (NHL) every bit a member of the Central Division in the Western Briefing, and play their dwelling house games at the Xcel Energy Heart.^[3]

The Wild were founded on June 25, 1997, only did not start play until the 2000–01 season.^[four] They were the showtime NHL franchise in Minnesota since the Minnesota North Stars moved to Dallas, Texas in 1993. They lost their commencement game iii–i to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim, and recorded their commencement win against the Tampa Bay Lightning five games later.^[five] In the 2002–03 flavor, the squad made their beginning Stanley Cup playoffs appearance, making a surprising run to the Western Conference Finals.^[half-dozen] Since so, the Wild have struggled in the postseason, having avant-garde to the second circular simply twice since 2003.

History [edit]

Preparations of a new franchise [edit]

After the departure of the Minnesota North Stars later on the 1992–93 season,^[vii] the state of Minnesota was without an NHL team for seven seasons. Saint Paul mayor (and futurity U.Southward. Senator) Norm Coleman began a campaign to either recruit the relocation of an existing franchise to the city or the award of an expansion franchise to a Minnesota-based ownership group. These efforts came close to success in the mid-1990s when Minnesota interests purchased the original Winnipeg Jets with the intention of relocating the franchise to Minnesota; yet, arena negotiations at the Target Center fell through and the Jets instead relocated to Phoenix, Arizona.

Post-obit the failed try to relocate the Jets, the NHL announced its intention to aggrandize from 26 to 30 teams. Man of affairs and Minnetonka native Bob Naegele, Jr. became the lead investor for an awarding to the NHL for an expansion franchise and ultimately the first majority owner. On June 25, 1997, the National Hockey League (NHL) announced that Minnesota had been awarded an expansion franchise, to begin play in the 2000–01 season. The six finalist team names for the new NHL franchise (Blue Ox, Freeze, Northern Lights, Voyageurs, White Bears, and Wild), were appear on Nov 20, 1997.^[8] Jac Sperling was named chief executive officer of the Minnesota team,^[9] Doug Risebrough was named full general manager, Tod Leiweke was named President, and Martha Fuller was named principal financial officer.

The team was officially named the Wild, with the unveiling occurring at Aldrich Loonshit in the suburb of Maplewood on January 22, 1998. The new name was introduced to anybody with the song "Born to Exist Wild" past Steppenwolf playing over the arena's speaker system. The Minnesota Wild announced its offset major sponsorship agreement with MasterCard from First USA. It was the earliest that First United states had ever signed an agreement in advance of a team beginning play (31 months). The Land of Minnesota adopted legislation in April 1998 to loan $65 million to the Metropolis of Saint Paul to fund 50% of the estimated $130 million project costs for the Xcel Free energy Center in Saint Paul. The legislation besides provided that only $48 1000000 of the loan needed to be repaid if the team met the requirements to have an understanding in place during the term of the charter with the Minnesota Amateur Sports Commission. The Urban center of Saint Paul issued an additional $65 million in bonds, with roughly 90% of the debt service on the bonds and the repayment of the land loan coming from scheduled rent and payment in lieu of taxes from the Minnesota Wild. Deconstruction of the Saint Paul Civic Center began presently thereafter and the Xcel Free energy Center blueprint was announced. A groundbreaking ceremony for the Xcel Energy Centre was hosted in Saint Paul.

The Minnesota Wild appear a 26-year partnership agreement with the Minnesota Apprentice Sports Commission (MASC). The Minnesota Wild-MASC partnership is the first partnership of its kind between a private professional person sports squad and a public apprentice sports organization. Doug Risebrough was named executive vice president/general manager of Minnesota Wild^[10] and the Xcel Energy Center was completed and ready for utilise.

Early years and (2000–2009) [edit]

Marian Gaborik era [edit]

On June 19, 2000, the Minnesota Wild named Jacques Lemaire equally their outset head coach.

The Wild named Jacques Lemaire their first head omnibus and the team picked Marian Gaborik third overall in the commencement circular of the 2000 NHL Entry Draft. Gaborik scored the first-ever goal for the Wild in their franchise debut on Oct 6 at Anaheim.^[11] The Wild played their first-always dwelling house game on October 11 against the Philadelphia Flyers and skated to a three–3 tie.^[12] Minnesota native Darby Hendrickson scored the first-ever dwelling goal for the Wild. The team was not very successful on the ice but showed promise for futurity seasons. Nevertheless, the most notable game of the yr was the first visit of the Dallas Stars, who had formerly played in Minnesota as the Minnesota N Stars. The Wild rode an emotional sellout oversupply of over 18,000 to a half dozen–0 shutout in Dallas' start regular-season game in Minnesota since a neutral-site game in 1993.^[xiii] The season ended with Scott Pellerin as the leading scorer with 39 points while Wes Walz, Darby Hendrickson and Gaborik paced the team with 18 goals each.^{[fourteen] [xv]}

The Wild got off to a strong start in the 2001–02 flavour past earning at least one point in its commencement seven games. Nevertheless, the Wild finished in terminal identify over again with a record of 26–35–12–6. En route, there were signs the Wild were improving, equally 2d-year speedster Gaborik had a solid sophomore season with 30 goals, including an invite to the NHL YoungStars Game, and Andrew Brunette led the squad in scoring with 69 points.^[16]

Gaborik spent much of the 2002–03 flavour vying for the league scoring crown before slumping in the second half, and the Wild, in their first-always playoff advent, made information technology all the way to the Western Conference Finals earlier being swept iv–0 past the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim. Previously, the Wild had browbeaten the favored and third-seeded Colorado Avalanche in the first round in vii games, coming back from a 3–1 series arrears and winning both Game six and vii in overtime. Brunette scored the serial-clinching goal, the concluding on Patrick Roy.^[17] In the Western Conference semi-finals, the Wild beat the quaternary-seeded Vancouver Canucks, once more in seven games, and again after beingness downwardly 3–1 in a series. In the procedure, the Wild became the commencement team in playoff history to capture a seven-game series twice after facing elimination during Game five.^[eighteen]

When the 2003–04 season started, the Wild were short-handed with both Pascal Dupuis and Gaborik belongings out. After struggling in the first month, the Wild finally got its ii young star left-wingers signed, but both struggled to get back into game shape as the Wild struggled through much of November. In a deep hole, the Wild could not climb dorsum into the playoffs, despite finishing the season strong, with wins in five of its terminal six games every bit they finished concluding in the competitive Northwest Division with a record of 30–29–20–3.^[nineteen] Along the way, the Wild began to fix for the future, trading away several of their older players who were a office of the franchise from the showtime, including Brad Bombardir and Jim Dowd.

The 2004–05 season was canceled due to an NHL lockout. Erstwhile Wild role player Sergei Zholtok died from a center condition during a game in Europe. Zholtok died in the arms of Minnesotan and quondam Wild player Darby Hendrickson.^[20]

After the lockout [edit]

In the 2005–06 season, the first season after the lockout, Minnesota finished in 5th and concluding identify in the Northwest Partitioning, 8 points backside fourth-placed Vancouver Canucks. En route, Marian Gaborik set a new franchise record for goals in a season at 38, and Brian Rolston set a new highest bespeak total by a Wild player in a season at 79. The goaltender controversy between Manny Fernandez and Dwayne Roloson concluded when Roloson was traded to the Edmonton Oilers for a first-round pick in the 2006 NHL Entry Typhoon.^[21]

The Wild signed veteran free agents Kim Johnsson, Marker Parrish, Branko Radivojevic and Keith Carney. On the day of the NHL Entry Draft, it traded the 17th overall pick and prospect Patrick O'Sullivan to the Los Angeles Kings for veteran Slovak Pavol Demitra. Niklas Backstrom was the starting goalie for the Wild subsequently previous starter Manny Fernandez sprained his articulatio genus on January xx. Fernandez played for the beginning time since the sprain on March half-dozen and was removed after assuasive three goals in two periods in the Wild's 3–0 loss to the San Jose Sharks. Josh Harding was brought up from the Wild's AHL chapter, the Houston Aeros, when Fernandez was hurt and remained on Minnesota's roster for the rest of the flavour as the backup goalie. All-Star winger Marian Gaborik returned from a groin injury in January 2007 and fabricated an immediate touch on, bringing a new spark to a lacking offense.^[22] The Wild fabricated the playoffs in 2007 for the second fourth dimension in team history,^[23] simply were eliminated past the eventual Stanley Cup champions Anaheim Ducks in the opening circular. Notably, the same Anaheim franchise eliminated the Wild in their first playoff year, in the Briefing Finals, in 2003.^[24]

The Wild bankrupt numerous franchise records during the 2007–08 season, including most goals and points (Marian Gaborik – 42 goals and 83 points).^[15] Also, Jacques Lemaire recorded his 500th career coaching win^[25] every bit the Wild clinched their first-ever Northwest Partition title in a three–1 victory over the Calgary Flames on Apr 3, 2008.^{[26] [27] [28]} They again faced the Colorado Avalanche in the first round equally sixth and tertiary seed (every bit in the 2003 playoffs), only this time the roles were reversed, and the Wild held dwelling-water ice advantage. Notwithstanding, Minnesota came upwards short, being eliminated in half-dozen games by the Barrage.

During the 2008 off-season, the Wild re-acquired Andrew Brunette from Colorado and traded for defenseman Marek Zidlicky. The Wild besides signed complimentary agents Antti Miettinen and Owen Nolan to multi-year deals. There seemed to be a stigma about Jacques Lemaire's defensive system that acquired a number of top free agents to avoid the Wild.^[29]

Despite winning the Northwest Partitioning the previous flavor, the Wild fell to ninth place in the Western Conference in 2008–09, missing the playoffs.^[thirty] Much of this was in part due to a lack of scoring and overall squad offense, and the injuries to star forward Marian Gaborik, who only played 17 games. Jacques Lemaire, head motorbus of the Wild since the team'south inception in the 2000–01 flavour, resigned at season'south end. General managing director Doug Risebrough was later fired, leading to a virtually complete turnover in the Wild'due south coaching and hockey management staff.

Chuck Fletcher era (2009–2018) [edit]

Mikko Koivu years [edit]

In the 2009 off-season, Marian Gaborik signed with the New York Rangers during the summertime every bit a complimentary agent.^[31] Squad possessor Craig Leipold hired former Pittsburgh Penguins assistant full general managing director Chuck Fletcher as general manager. Subsequently that summertime, Fletcher selected Todd Richards equally head bus.^[32] Martin Havlat was signed via gratuitous agency after playing the previous iii seasons for the Chicago Blackhawks in order to lessen the blow of Gaborik'south departure. During the first month of the 2009–10 season, the team announced their first-ever full-time helm, Mikko Koivu.^[33] In 2009, Leipold named Matt Majka as main operating officer of the team.^[34]

The 2009–10 and the 2010–11 seasons ended in disappointment for the Wild as they missed the playoffs both seasons. In the 2010 NHL Entry Draft, the Wild held the ninth overall selection and used information technology to select Finnish forward Mikael Granlund. The Wild opened the 2010–11 flavor with 2 games at the Hartwall Areena in Helsinki against the Carolina Hurricanes. Following the 2010–11 season, the team fired head coach Todd Richards due to the team failing to reach the playoffs in his ii seasons as head motorbus with a 77–71–16 record. Mike Yeo, who coached the Wild's AHL affiliate Houston Aeros to a Western Briefing title in 2011,^[35] was named the new caput coach.^[36]

During the 2011 NHL Entry Draft (which the team hosted), the Wild used their tenth overall selection to select Jonas Brodin. The social club besides created a stir when they traded star defenseman Brent Burns and a 2012 2d-round pick to the San Jose Sharks in substitution for Devin Setoguchi, Charlie Coyle and the 28th overall selection in the 2011 typhoon, which they used to select Zack Phillips. Subsequently in the off-season, the Wild traded Martin Havlat for Dany Heatley in another blockbuster trade with the Sharks.^[37] In Nov, the team set a franchise record for virtually wins in 1 calendar month with 11.^[38] Despite a hot start to the season that saw them sitting atop the NHL standings in early December, multiple injuries to cardinal players for extended periods effectively eliminated the team from playoff contention for the quaternary consecutive twelvemonth.^[39]

Parise-Suter era [edit]

During the 2012 off-season, the team was able to sign peak prospect Mikael Granlund to a iii-year, entry-level contract.^{[xl] [41] [42]} During the 2012 NHL Entry Draft, the team selected Matt Dumba with the seventh overall pick.^[43] In the same off-season, the Wild also signed unrestricted gratuitous agent winger Zach Parise, a Twin Cities native, and defenseman Ryan Suter to identical 13-year, U.s.$98 million contracts.^{[44] [45] [46]} All the same, the team's decorated off-season was overshadowed past the 2012–13 NHL lockout, which ended in January 2013.

Zach Parise (left) and Ryan Suter (right) during the 2012–thirteen season. Both players signed identical thirteen-year contracts as free agents during the 2012 off-season.

Prior to the 2013 trade deadline, the Wild acquired Jason Pominville from the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for prospects Johan Larsson and Matt Hackett, as well as draft picks.^{[47] [48]} The team reached the mail-flavor for the quaternary fourth dimension in franchise history later a 3–1 win over the Colorado Avalanche on Apr 27, 2013. Finishing 8th place in the Western Briefing, the Wild lost in five games to the eventual champions Chicago Blackhawks in the first circular of the 2013 playoffs.

The relocation and rebranding of the Atlanta Thrashers as the "new" Winnipeg Jets in 2011 meant Winnipeg was one time once again Minnesota'south second-closest geographical rival afterward Chicago, and led the NHL to reconsider its divisional alignment. Even before the NHL's return to Winnipeg, Wild management had lobbied repeatedly for a move out of the Northwest Division, where they were the only Key Time Zone squad. Among the alignments considered was having the Jets replace the Avalanche in the Northwest, but Wild direction strongly objected to this alignment as information technology would accept left them equally the only American team in their division. Post-obit protracted negotiations both amongst the owners and with the National Hockey League Players' Association, in 2013, the NHL collapsed its half dozen divisions into iv and dissolved the Northwest Division. Consequently, the Wild moved into the Central Partition forth with the Jets and Avalanche; the Canadian teams from the Northwest moved back to the Pacific Sectionalization. The Wild now share their division with non only the Blackhawks just also the Dallas Stars, the Wild'southward predecessors in Minnesota, and the St. Louis Blues, another major rival of the Northward Stars during the Norris Division era. Thus, the 2013 Blackhawks–Wild playoff serial was seen equally the rebirth of the quondam Chicago–Minnesota rivalry in the NHL.

The 2013–xiv regular flavour for the Wild was the best the team had since the 2007–08 flavor, good plenty to claim the first Wild Card position. Jason Pominville became the Wild's third thespian in franchise history to reach the thirty-goal mark, with Mikko Koivu surpassing Marian Gaborik in all-time points for the club. The Wild battled goaltender issues throughout the unabridged season. It began with Josh Harding leading the NHL in save pct, and goals-against average, earlier being placed on injured reserve for complications with his Multiple sclerosis (MS). Niklas Backstrom also suffered a season-ending injury with abdominal issues. The Wild started 5 different goalies during the year and dressed seven. At the trade borderline, general manager Chuck Fletcher acquired Ilya Bryzgalov from the Edmonton Oilers in commutation for a quaternary-round choice, equally well as Matt Moulson and Cody McCormick from Buffalo in exchange for Torrey Mitchell and two-second-round picks in 2014 and 2016. In the playoffs, the team would face Colorado, who won the Central Division. The Wild won the series iv games to 3 with an overtime goal in Game 7 past Nino Niederreiter. The team would then confront the defending Stanley Cup champions Chicago, where they were eliminated in vi games.

During the 2014 off-season, the Wild signed forward Thomas Vanek as a free agent. In 2015, the Wild clinched the first wild carte spot in the West by defeating the Chicago Blackhawks. It then defeated the Key Partitioning champions, the St. Louis Blues, in the start round of the playoffs in half dozen games. In the 2d round, the Wild were eliminated in a four-game series sweep by Chicago. Post-obit the loss, forrad Matt Cooke said, "Our expectations inside this room were a lot higher than [a] second-round series."^[49]

In 2016, the Wild set a franchise record with the best win record in the get-go 41 games of the season. Immediately afterward, they went into a skid, losing the next 13 of 14 games, culminating in the firing of head omnibus Mike Yeo. Under new acting head autobus John Torchetti, the team snapped the losing streak merely remained streaky throughout the remainder of the season, managing to barely make the playoffs with a full of 87 points, the worst tape of any playoff team in the shootout era (since 2005–06).^[l] In the first circular, the Wild fell to the Central Partitioning champion Dallas Stars in six games.^[51] During the 2016 off-season, the Wild signed costless agent Eric Staal to a three-year contract. The Wild besides hired Bruce Boudreau equally their new head coach, replacing interim caput coach John Torchetti.

In 2017, the Wild ready their new franchise tape for points (106), wins (49) and goals for (266). The Wild set a franchise-record 12-game win streak that was snapped on New Year's Eve 2016 past the Columbus Blue Jackets, a team also on a franchise-record win streak at the time.^[52] Nevertheless, Minnesota failed to win more than a game in the playoffs, losing in v games to St. Louis. Mikael Granlund led the team in points with 69, while new addition Eric Staal led the team in goals with 28. Mikko Koivu was a finalist for the Frank J. Selke Trophy for best defensive forward, while Granlund was a finalist for the Lady Byng Trophy.

In the 2017 off-flavour, the Wild experienced pregnant roster turnover. Erik Haula was lost to the Vegas Gold Knights in the expansion draft (along with prospect Alex Tuch). Winger Jason Pominville and defenseman Marco Scandella were traded to the Buffalo Sabres in exchange for forrad Tyler Ennis and Marcus Foligno. Minnesota native Matt Cullen was signed equally a complimentary amanuensis and returned to the Wild to shore up the fourth line (Cullen had previously played in Minnesota from 2010 to 2013). Captain Mikko Koivu signed a two-twelvemonth extension, ensuring he would remain with the Wild through the 2019–20 season.

Following some other 100-bespeak regular season, the Wild matched up with Central Partition rival, the Winnipeg Jets, in the first round of the 2018 playoffs. The Jets defeated the Wild in five games, making it three directly seasons in which the Wild failed to accelerate past the first round. On April 23, shortly post-obit the Wild's exit from the playoffs, owner Leipold announced he had fired general director Fletcher later on nine seasons with the squad.^[53] Nether Fletcher's leadership, the Wild qualified for the playoffs half dozen consecutive years, only failed to advance beyond the 2nd round.

Rebuilding and the Kirill Kaprizov era (2018–nowadays) [edit]

On May 21, 2018, Paul Fenton was hired as the 3rd general manager in franchise history. During the 2018–19 flavour, the Wild struggled to keep up in the ultra-competitive Central Division as they had in previous seasons. Despite a renaissance year from Parise, many primal players like Eric Staal and Jason Zucker regressed offensively from the flavor prior. Many reported that there was dysfunction in the organization, caused by a rift between Fenton, Boudreau and various players, ultimately leading the trading of several core players, such as Mikael Granlund, Charlie Coyle and Nino Niederreiter. The Wild finished the flavour with 83-points, finishing final in the partition and missing the playoffs for the first fourth dimension since 2012.

In the 2019 off-season, the Wild signed gratis agent Mats Zuccarello to a five-yr contract. On July 30, 2019, Fenton was fired as full general manager, but 14 months afterwards being hired to that position. On Baronial 21, 2019, the Wild hired Bill Guerin as the fourth general manager in franchise history. On February 14, 2020, the Wild fired head coach Bruce Boudreau and named Dean Evason every bit interim head coach.^[54] Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wild participated in the best-of-five qualifying circular of the 2020 Stanley Cup playoffs, but were eliminated in iv games at the hands of the Vancouver Canucks.

Kirill Kaprizov played his first NHL game with the Wild in January 2021, scoring the overtime winner against the Los Angeles Kings during his debut.^[55] On 21 September 2021, Kirill Kaprizov signed a five-year, $45 million contract with the Wild. As a consequence of the contract, Kaprizov became the highest-paid sophomore actor in NHL history. In 2022, the team prepare franchise flavour highs in points (113) and wins (53). Kirill Kaprizov fix franchise records in points (108), goals (47), and assists (61).

Team information [edit]

Jerseys [edit]

2000–2007 [edit]

For its first seven years in the NHL, the Wild wore a uniform of either a green or white bailiwick of jersey with crimson and gilded stripes and the principal logo on the forepart of the jersey. The shoulder patch was a circle with "Minnesota Wild" read in distinctive lettering from both words. The proper noun and numbering on the green jersey would be aureate with red outlining while on the white jersey it was cherry-red with aureate outlining. In 2003–04, with the NHL reversing the convention regarding the home and road jersey colors, the dark-green jersey became the home jersey while the white one became the road jersey.

2007–2017 [edit]

In the 2007–08 flavour, when all jerseys were converted to the new Reebok Edge uniform system, the white jersey was retained and the home jersey replaced with a new 1 that has a small imprint of the team'due south master logo inside a white circle, which is surrounded past the words "Minnesota Wild" in a larger ring confronting a green background. The rest of the bailiwick of jersey is predominantly reddish, with additional swatches of green on the sleeves outlined with wheat. The away jersey uses a larger version of the primary logo without the concentric circles on a predominantly white jersey; in 2013, the lettering was updated to match the domicile and alternate sweaters, at the same time updating the sweater's look to a more than traditional design. On Baronial 30, 2009, the squad unveiled another third/alternate jersey, which is predominantly green with wheat accents. Information technology says "Minnesota Wild" in script writing across the chest.^[56]

On Apr iv, 2017, the Wild honored the Minnesota Northward Stars by wearing Due north Stars jerseys for warm-ups, despite the Northward Stars history belonging to the Dallas Stars. Martin Hanzal warmed upward with number 91, as the North Stars retired number 19 in honour of Bill Masterton.

2017–nowadays [edit]

On June 20, 2017, the Wild introduced a new habitation uniform, as the NHL switched from Reebok to Adidas – a green jersey with their main logo, and a wheat-colored stripe through the centre of the jersey. On the artillery is a wheat-colored stripe with a smaller red stripe nigh the top of it. The Wild kept its away jersey design the same. The Wild, along with the rest of the NHL, did not have an alternating bailiwick of jersey for the 2017–18 season.^[57]

Reverse Retro bailiwick of jersey [edit]

In the 2020–21 flavour, the Wild unveiled a "Contrary Retro" bailiwick of jersey in collaboration with Adidas. The uniform was a callback to the late 1970s Minnesota North Stars uniform, with the Wild logo recolored to match the team's green and gold scheme.^[58]

Wintertime Classic jersey [edit]

For the 2022 NHL Winter Archetype, the Wild unveiled a special edition jersey inspired by diverse early Minnesota hockey teams. The jersey is primarily green with red shoulder yoke and ruby-red and wheat stripes. The front end of the uniforms featured the Minneapolis–Saint Paul (MPLS.–ST. PAUL) identifier around three symbols: a red Minnesota state silhouette with "MN" inside, and two wheat stars referencing Gemini, the twin constellation. Dark-brown gloves and pants were used to reflect early 20th century hockey gear.^[59]

Goal horn and songs [edit]

The squad has had a goal horn each season since its inception. The horn model is a Kahlenberg Q-3A which was given to the team by Daktronics (the same visitor that made the scoreboard).^{[ citation needed ]} The team'due south first goal songs were "Born to Be Wild" and "Rock and Curl Part 2" that was used in its countdown season of 2000–01. The following season, the squad removed "Born to Be Wild" just kept "Rock and Roll Part 2" through 2004, before the lockout. After the lockout in 2005, the Wild used a cover of "Rock and Roll Part 1" for the 2005–06 season. For the 2006–07 season, the team changed its goal song to "Oversupply Chant" by Joe Satriani shortly after its release. Afterwards popular legend and Minneapolis native Prince died in April 2016, the team held a tribute to him at Game 6 of the 2016 Stanley Cup playoffs game against the Dallas Stars, and adopted "Let's Become Crazy" as their goal vocal. After a fan poll, the team permanently used "Let's Go Crazy" with the goal horn starting in the 2016–17 season. The Wild kept "Crowd Chant" every bit their win song.^[threescore] For the 2018–nineteen season, the team brought back "Oversupply Chant" as its goal song and "Permit's Get Crazy" became the win song.^[61] For the pandemic-shortened season, the squad used "Jump Effectually" by House of Pain as their goal song.^{[62] [63]} In the 2021-22 Season, the Wild used "Shout" by The Isley Brothers as their goal song. "Let'due south Go Crazy" remains the win vocal.^[64]

Logo [edit]

An alternate logo since 2003.

The logo depicts both a wood landscape and the silhouette of a wild animal.^{[1] [65]} The "center" of the "wild animal" is the northward star, in tribute to the departed Minnesota Due north Stars as well as the state's motto L'Étoile du Nord, meaning "The Star of the Northward". Co-ordinate to The Good Point, questions surrounding the identity of the animal depicted have sparked contend amongst logo enthusiasts, earning accolades for its unique complexity in North American professional sports.^[66]

In 2008, "Nordy" was introduced as the official mascot of the team.^[67]

Ownership [edit]

The franchise was originally owned by a limited partnership formed by quondam majority owner Bob Naegele, Jr. of Naegele Sports, LLC in 1997. On January ten, 2008, information technology was appear the franchise was being sold to former Nashville Predators owner Craig Leipold. The NHL's Lath of Governors officially canonical Leipold'south purchase of Minnesota Sports & Entertainment (MSE) on April x, 2008.^[68] Leipold, a resident of Racine, Wisconsin, completed the sale of the Nashville Predators to a local buying grouping on December 7, 2007, a team he owned since the expansion franchise was awarded to Nashville in 1997.

Leipold is the majority owner and principal investor in MSE, a regional sports and entertainment leader that includes the NHL'due south Minnesota Wild, its AHL affiliate the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League, Wildside Caterers, 317 on Rice Park and the facility management of Xcel Energy Center and the Saint Paul RiverCentre. He also serves as the team'south Governor at NHL Board of Governors' meetings. After purchase of MSE, Mr. Leipold sold the Swarm to John Arlotta. Forth with the Wild, the grouping has twelvemonth-round direction rights of the Xcel Free energy Middle, and currently has a management contract to manage the adjoining Saint Paul RiverCentre and Roy Wilkins Auditorium.^[69] The partnership besides owns and operates 317 on Rice Park, which is the onetime historic Minnesota club.^[70]

[edit]

The Minnesota Wild stay involved in the customs through the philanthropic activities of the Minnesota Wild Foundation and its operations to support the game of hockey with events such equally Hockey Twenty-four hour period Minnesota. It has been historic every twelvemonth since 2007. The Wild are xiii-2-1 on Hockey 24-hour interval Minnesota.^[71] Started in 2017, the Wild unveiled a new tradition called This Is Our Water ice which encourages Wild fans to bring water from local ponds, lakes and rinks and add together it to the Xcel Energy Center water ice. Fans can bring water to any regular-season home game and add it to the collection station which will and so exist added to the ice for the season.^{[72] [73]}

Minor league affiliates [edit]

Minnesota currently has two pocket-sized league affiliates: the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL) and the Iowa Heartlanders of the ECHL. The Iowa Wild is owned by the parent club, who relocated the franchise from Houston in 2013.^{[74] [75]}

Old minor league affiliates [edit]

• Alaska Aces
• Allen Americans^[76]
• Austin Ice Bats
• Bakersfield Condors
• Cleveland Lumberjacks
• Houston Aeros
• Johnstown Chiefs
• Louisiana IceGators
• Mississippi Sea Wolves
• Orlando Solar Bears
• Quad City Mallards^[77]
• Rapid Metropolis Rush
• Texas Wildcatters

Season-past-season record [edit]

This is a partial list of the last five seasons completed by the Wild. For the total flavor-by-flavor history, see List of Minnesota Wild seasons

Notation: GP = Games played, Due west = Wins, L = Losses, T = Ties, OTL = Overtime Losses, Pts = Points, GF = Goals for, GA = Goals against

Flavor	GP	Westward	Fifty	OTL	Pts	GF	GA	Finish	Playoffs
2017–xviii	82	45	26	11	101	253	232	3rd, Central	Lost in Offset Round, 1–4 (Jets)
2018–19	82	37	36	9	83	211	237	7th, Key	Did not qualify
2019–20	69	35	27	seven	77	220	220	6th, Central	Lost in Qualifying Round, ane–3 (Canucks)
2020–21	56	35	xvi	five	75	181	160	3rd, Westward	Lost in First Round, three–four (Golden Knights)
2021–22	82	53	22	7	113	310	253	2nd, Central	Lost in Beginning Circular, 2–iv (Blues)

Players [edit]

Current roster [edit]

Updated May 1, 2022 ^{[78] [79]}

Team captains [edit]

Notation: The Wild rotated the captaincy for their start nine seasons on a monthly basis amongst several of its players each season, with some players serving multiple times under Jacques Lemaire. Afterward Todd Richards became head coach for the start of the 2009–10 flavor, Mikko Koivu, who was the concluding rotating captain and has had the captaincy three different times in the 2008–09 season, became the franchise'southward first permanent captain on October 20, 2009. ^[lxxx]

Rotating, 2000–2009

• 2000–01
  • Sean O'Donnell – October 2000
  • Scott Pellerin – November 2000
  • Wes Walz – December 2000
  • Brad Bombardir – January and February 2001
  • Darby Hendrickson – March and Apr 2001
• 2001–02
  • Jim Dowd – Oct 2001
  • Filip Kuba – November 2001
  • Brad Brown – Dec 2001 and Jan 2002
  • Andrew Brunette – Feb, March, and April 2002
• 2002–03
  • Brad Bombardir – October, Nov 2002, February, March, April, and Playoffs 2003
  • Matt Johnson – Dec 2002
  • Sergei Zholtok – January 2003
• 2003–04
  • Brad Brown – October 2003
  • Andrew Brunette – November 2003, March and April 2004
  • Richard Park – December 2003
  • Brad Bombardir – January 2004
  • Jim Dowd – February 2004

• 2005–06
  • Alex Henry – September 2005
  • Filip Kuba – November 2005
  • Willie Mitchell – December 2005 & January 2006
  • Brian Rolston – February 2006
  • Wes Walz – March and April 2006
• 2006–07
  • Brian Rolston – October, November 2006, and January 2007
  • Keith Carney – December 2006
  • Mark Parrish – February, March, April, and Playoffs 2007
• 2007–08
  • Pavol Demitra – Oct 2007
  • Brian Rolston – November 2007
  • Marking Parrish – December 2007
  • Nick Schultz – January 2008
  • Mikko Koivu – February 2008
  • Marian Gaborík – March, April
• 2008–09
  • Mikko Koivu – October, November 2008, January 2009, March, and April 2009
  • Kim Johnsson – December 2008
  • Andrew Brunette – Feb 2009

Permanent, 2009–nowadays ^[80]

• Mikko Koivu, 2009–2020
• Jared Spurgeon, 2021–present

Retired numbers [edit]

The NHL retired Wayne Gretzky's No. 99 for all its member teams at the 2000 NHL All-Star Game.^[81]

Minnesota Wild retired numbers

No.	Player	Position	Career	Date of award
one	Wild Fans			October 11, 2000[82]
9	Mikko Koivu	C	2005–2020	March xiii, 2022[83]

Hall of Famers [edit]

The Wild's erstwhile head coach Jacques Lemaire was inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame (in the players category) in 1985.^[84]

First-round draft picks [edit]

• 2000: Marian Gaborik (3rd overall)
• 2001: Mikko Koivu (6th overall)
• 2002: Pierre-Marc Bouchard (8th overall)
• 2003: Brent Burns (20th overall)
• 2004: A. J. Thelen (twelfth overall)
• 2005: Benoit Pouliot (4th overall)
• 2006: James Sheppard (9th overall)
• 2007: Colton Gillies (16th overall)
• 2008: Tyler Cuma (23rd overall)
• 2009: Nick Leddy (16th overall)
• 2010: Mikael Granlund (9th overall)
• 2011: Jonas Brodin (10th overall) and Zack Phillips (28th overall)
• 2012: Matt Dumba (seventh overall)
• 2013: None
• 2014: Alex Tuch (18th overall)
• 2015: Joel Eriksson Ek (20th overall)
• 2016: Luke Kunin (15th overall)
• 2017: None
• 2018: Filip Johansson (24th overall)
• 2019: Matthew Boldy (twelfth overall)
• 2020: Marco Rossi (9th overall)
• 2021: Jesper Wallstedt (20th overall) and Carson Lambos (26th overall)

Franchise records and leaders [edit]

Scoring leaders [edit]

The post-obit are the pinnacle-ten franchise point-scorers every bit of the end of the 2021–22 flavour.^[85]

Recording 709 points as a member of the Wild, Mikko Koivu is the franchise's all-time point leaders.

•  * – current Wild histrion

Annotation: Pos = Position; GP = Games Played; G = Goals; A = Assists; Pts = Points; P/G = Points per game;

Private records [edit]

• Nigh games played with franchise: 1,028, Mikko Koivu (2005–xx)
• Most goals in a season: 47, Kirill Kaprizov (2021–22)
• Almost assists in a season: 61, Kirill Kaprizov (2021–22)
• Near points in a flavor: 108, Kirill Kaprizov (2021–22)
• Almost penalty minutes in a season: 201, Matt Johnson (2002–03)
• Most points in a season, defenseman: 51, Ryan Suter (2015–xvi)
• Most points in a season, rookie: 51, Kirill Kaprizov (2020–21)
• Nearly goals in a game: 5, Marian Gaborik (December xx, 2007, vs. New York Rangers)
• Fastest iii goals: 11:12, Zach Parise (2015–16)
• Most wins: 194, Niklas Backstrom
• Most wins in a flavour: 40, Devan Dubnyk (2016–17)
• Most shutouts in a flavour: 8, Niklas Backstrom (2008–09),
• Best +/- in a flavour: +41, Alex Goligoski (2021–22)
• Most time on ice per game in a flavor: 29:25, Ryan Suter, (2013–14)^{[86] [ non-primary source needed ]}
• Most consecutive starts for goalie: 38, Devan Dubnyk, (January 15, 2015 – Apr 7, 2015)
• About consecutive shutouts: 3, Devan Dubnyk

Awards and trophies [edit]

Run into as well [edit]

• List of Minnesota Wild general managers
• Listing of Minnesota Wild caput coaches
• List of Minnesota Wild players
• List of Minnesota Wild broadcasters

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External links [edit]

• Media related to Minnesota Wild at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minnesota_Wild

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