Time to Talk About the Central Division Leading Minnesota Wild

1. Eriksson Ek for 5m a year is a crazy good contract lmao

2. '08 Northwest Division Champs. Gaborik (actually healthy), Rolston, Koivu. Banner city baby

3. Ek might be underrated but he is NOT a 1C and he loses face offs at an alarming rate against top teams with good centers. That will bite them in the playoffs. They do need to find a better top line center.

4. that top line was beautiful to watch last night

5. Love devils fans thinking Hughes will just leave Minnesota when he’s about to put up the best season in his career and enjoying it here 😂

6. I honestly don’t think they are. Think about it, if Erikson Ekk goes down, who becomes the 1C? Is it Hartman, Yurov? How are they going to stack up against McDavid, Eichel, or McKinnon in a 7 game series? They have to get another top 6 center. If they do that, then yes. Then I do think they are a legitimate contender. But as of now, they are one Erikson Ekk injury away from disaster.

7. Dallas and the Blues have historically had our number. We could beat the #1 team in the league but would always lose to the Stars and St. Louis.

8. A week or two ago you did a video on another team, i don't remember which team but in the comments i asked if you could do one about the wild. Thanks!!!!!!

9. Quinn’s shooting percentage is nearly 3x last years shooting percentage. They should let him walk instead of paying for his inflated numbers

10. Faber and Spurg missing time, and Boldy having a slower start, pay no mind the most recent hat trick haha

11. Keep an eye on Joel's possible injury, you are correct he is underrated and historically we struggle a lot more when hes out. I like to say hes the glue for the team. If he is out and we still perform well that bodes very very well for the rest of the season & playoffs.

12. yes we are contenders as long as ekky stays healty

13. Hitting on all cylinders before playoffs and this team could go on a run. 2.16 GAA and they have weapons.

14. One thing I think that has helped the Wild this year is not having so many back-to-back games. That day off between games has helped Wallstead.

15. Last year was Minnesota best shot at sniffing the Stanley Cup. They need just focus on making the playoffs this year and next year. After that. I could see Minnesota winning the Stanley Cup

16. Gustavsson has a NMC tho

17. 07-08 northwest division champs 😅

18. HOCKEY GUY!!!!!
    GIVE US YOUR BLESSING!!!!!!!!

19. They have never won the Central.
    They did win the Northwest. Once.

20. The Wilds are absolutely contenders for the Stanley cup

21. Thank you for making this video THG!!!! My pride for the Minnesota Wild grows with every mention!

22. Wow. What a great hockey mind.

23. This is the most optimistic I’ve been about our chances. I think it depends on if we stay healthy. The talent is there.

24. Boldy has hit a fair amount of posts/crossbar and getting robbed

25. Love the WILD 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

26. It's going to be great seeing Brock return on Saturday

27. They're capable, but it's early. They gotta stay healthy and play this well the second half of the season.

28. As a calgary fan I could not disagree more about a superstar not being signed for the next year. I would have traded gaudreau in a heartbeat before the deadline in retrospect because unless you literally win the cup, it isn't worth it. We could have had a haul that year for him and not immediately nosedived into a rebuild. Colorado reacted much better with the same situation in rantanen and I strongly encourage Minnesota to do the same

29. I think depth is the main concern. Specifically center depth and good, but aging defensemen that are prone to injury. I don't think they need a Larkin caliber center to come in. A second line serviceable center would probably be enough.

30. Rough year again for Vanny and Eddy as expected, but I'm surprised Dally is have a hard time. Hope Makar and MacKinnon come back for Colly soon. Looking forward to our game against Bossy this Saturday!

31. Boldy,ek,kaprizov line is currently 18-0 for goals for and against so far this season. Edit: in 5-5, they’ve also only trailed for 28 minutes so far this season

32. I've been tracking the Wild closely. For the past 2 weeks, and 25% into the season, they are tit for tat dancing tied with the reigning Stanley Cup Champions (and sometimes Edmonton Oilers), in terms of points in the League, not just the Western Central Div. Oilers have 3 of the top 4 guys in terms of points as of this post; then Kaprizov is sitting in 3rd. Shannon is good to also call out…. we are missing our starting 'Tender and a top line blueliner due to injuries. Extend some credit to Head Coach John Hynes… many of us tracking him don't have confidence he's our SC coach, but look at what he's accomplished.

33. 1 division title in 07-08 season

34. And in spite of all of this they haven’t signed Quinn to that extension. Perhaps something else is on his mind. 😉

35. Won't last. Hopefully No teams from Minn , crapifornia,ny, mass, ontario, b.c., alberta and now texas will ever win a title again

36. Wild are a contender this year.

37. They’re a Minnesotan team… meaning they’re consistently good in regulation and heartbreaking in the postseason. Fun times for fans! SKOL Wild

38. That’s an absurd amount of cap space for next season. For a team at the top of the league…… that’s kind of bonkers

39. Wild have scored first in 14 games so far, most in the league by a good margin.

40. Hey Shannon, you are in my head, agree with everything you have to say, but as a wild fan, and a native minnesotian something is going to happen to f……. everything up. Thank you love the channel

41. I wouldn’t be surprised if Quinn is waiting to see how this playoffs go. If the Wild win the cup or at least makes the finals, I wonder if he’d sign for a longer term deal. I also wonder if GMBG could promise to try to get Luke and Jack over here within the next 3-5 years to form the Hughes-keteers.

    12:30 Also there are several skaters over or around the age of 35, so over the next 3-5 years they’ll retire or move to different teams making even more room for rookies to come in and grow on cheap contracts.

    I’d much rather see one of our prospect goalies be traded away than splitting up the Wall & Bus tandem.

42. The tricky part wasn't the playoffs. It was the Suter/Parise contracts and their performance. Parise got benched in the playoffs he was so bad. In fact, after those boys were shown the door, it was remarkable the Wild went to the playoffs without their 2 highest paid players, and it's not shocking they couldn't advance. Take the highest paid 2 players off any team and see how far they get. Not sure why you try to gaslight about the Wild falling short in the past all the time, as if it was a performance thing.

43. They'll be done with with half of their road games by December 3rd. Crazy scheduling to start their season.

    I'm actually worried a bit about December, when they have a stretch of 9 out of 10 at home, during the holiday season. Being back around family, kids, home responsibilities that long means it's sometimes harder to get up for games, as odd as it sounds.

    Trying to just enjoy this season. We all know about the Quinn Hughes uncertainty. A good reminder to just enjoy the here and now. This is the most talented iteration of the Wild in their 26 year history.

    13:07 Wallstedt isn't going anywhere. The rumors were that he was possibly going to have been dealt last summer, but that they pivoted when it was found that Gustavsson needed surgery. A serendipitous injury that may greatly have affected the Wild's future. Gustavsson wants to be a #1 goaltender, & I could see him waiving his trade protection if it's explained to him that Wally is "the guy" going forward. It'd be a luxury to keep both, but paying $14-16 mill/yr on goaltending might be tough to swallow.

    The Wild won their division in '07/'08! It's a sad, lonely banner in Grand Casino (Xcel Energy) Arena.

44. We have yet to really look stressed or worried during a game! They are playing very calm which is amazing!

45. Is there going to be hockey games this weekend?

46. W

47. Pickard to me is a scheduled loss anything else is gravy.
    Faber 0 games played.
    Gustavsson 0 games played.
    Wallstedt nothing short of a franchise goalie at a very young age.
    This team is playing team 2 way hockey with some excitement, aka some mistakes hut wallstedt bails em out.
    Guerin balls of steel.

48. Crazy boldy been snake bittin most of the start, still has 10 goals and 40 goal pace 😮

49. The wild won the north west division once i think, probably 20yrs ago

50. The Wild actually won their division in 2008 when they were in the Northwest Division before realignment

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