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Wild vs. Lightning, The Ugly: The Wild acquiring a big bottom-6 forward in Michael McCarron was classic, unfortunately, so was tossing away a 2nd round pick for a guy who is probably a rental. Fabbri looked ok in his debut, as did Brodin who hadn't played in a month. #mnwild

Wild vs. Lightning, The Bad: Marcus Johansson taking a big open-ice hit by Darren Raddysh that certainly left him worse for the wear. Barely 9 shots through the first two periods was not the kind of start that normally yields success for the Wild. #mnwild

Wild vs. Lightning, The Good: Kaprizov breaking Gaborik / Wild's goal scoring record, Gustavsson with a solid start that never really gave Tampa Bay much hope. Quinn Hughes with a goal and an assist as Minnesota gets a confidence building-win at home. #mnwild

Wild goal! Kirill Kaprizov nets his 2nd goal of the game on an empty netter and becomes the team's all time goal scoring leader with his 220th of his career breaking the record of 219 set by Marian Gaborik. 5-1 Wild lead Tampa Bay with 2:31 left in the 3rd. #mnwild

Wild goal! Quinn Hughes pounces on a loose puck near the blue line, using his speed to move around a flat-footed Kucherov and then beats Vasilevskiy to extend Minnesota's lead to three, 4-1 over Tampa Bay with 13:04 left in the 3rd. #mnwild

Wild hold a 3-1 lead over Tampa Bay after two in St. Paul. Faber, Zuccarello and Trenin with the goals for Minnesota. Kucherov with the lone Lightning goal. #mnwild

Wild goal! Yakov Trenin is given a nice gift by Andrei Vasilevskiy but instead of covering up the puck he gives it to the Wild forward who wastes little time burying the biscuit to give the Wild a 3-1 lead over the Lightning with 2:45 left in the 2nd. #mnwild

Lightning goal. Quinn Hughes loses the puck, and Jake Guentzel swings a backhand pass to Brayden Point who then dishes it back to Nikita Kucherov for a pretty finish off the rush. Wild lead cut to one, 2-1 with 4:53 left in the 2nd. #mnwild

Wild goal! Mats Zuccarello strikes on a heavy wrist shot on the power play to extend Minnesota's lead to 2-0 against the Lightning. Top shelf again which may have benefited from a Cernak screen with 14:55 left in the 2nd. #mnwild

Wild hold a 1-0 lead over Tampa Bay after one. Brock Faber with the lone #mnwild goal.

Wild goal! Brock Faber steps into a one-timer that he goes top corner on to give Minnesota a 1-0 lead with 16:14 left in the 1st against Tampa Bay! #mnwild

@wardcarroll.bsky.social and Sal Mercagliano discuss more about what is going on in America's growing conflict with Iran including the latest on Kuwait's air defense downing 3 F-15E's as well other discussions of what challenges lie ahead, great insight, check it out! www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR3m...

What move do you think #mnwild GM Bill Guerin will make at / near the #NHL trade deadline? A Top 6 center/winger, a bottom 6 center/winger, a 3rd pairing defenseman with size or no move at all and wait until the summer to make a move? Reply and tag it #CreasePodcast

Asking anyone to feel sorry for anyone involved who indulged in this. They are guilty, 💯. The ultimate coup for this scheme is that the scandal is in plain sight and it still doesn’t seem to actually matter. The asset, POTUS remains in power regardless of how obvious his involvement was.

Because unless it is a family member, they will refuse to believe it or they will say the victims brought it upon themselves somehow. Since this went on for so long, think of all the decisions etc made because of the fear from those involved of this being leveraged against them? I am not pt3

The POTUS was heavily involved in it. The reason there are so many pictures was both bravado and blackmail. And you know there has to be video too. It is despicable, it is horrible to think of the victims and what they must have gone through. But will his base care? I doubt it. Pt2

The KGB master plan included their most successful honey trap ever with Epstein. Creating compromising material on people of power, wealth and influence in various industries, academia, political figures. But the kicker was fostering a cult that does not care in the slightest that their leader pt1

And realize we need to truly be ready to act on a level we haven’t seen since the American Revolution. This isn’t just POTUS, this is Putin’s Dream something they only wished they could have done during the Cold War. But those guard rails have been all removed, other than our ability to resist.

Pesky story that just doesn’t want to go away from being talked about as much. This is POTUS’ ‘weave’ scaled up. Congress has all but abdicated its power. Can’t wait for the sternly written letter from Schumer all while the GOP tries to rig the midterm elections with the SAVE Act. Wake up pt3

If you stroke his ego with platitudes (made for the occasion awards) or money (gifts) to his crypto company or a ‘donation’ to the Board of Peace he will do whatever you want. Military strikes sure, give away national security secrets why not. And it serves the purpose of keeping that pt2

The narrative that it was a misunderstanding that led our current administration into war with Iran is only right when you consider that POTUS only wanted war to begin with. There was nothing that Iran could have agreed to that would have stopped it. Those that have cozied up to POTUS know pt1

Wild vs. Blues, The Ugly: You come out of the Olympic break and win against Colorado, thanks to the great play of your goaltender, Gustavsson. Two games later you lose to a non-playoff team is probably going to have a fire sale by the end of the week. Not a good look. #mnwild

Wild vs. Blues, The Bad: This is what happens when you let a team outside the playoff window hang around. You make it a one-shot hockey game and when Buchnevich scored late in the 3rd, you knew it was over because the Wild just couldn't convert on its chances. #mnwild

Wild vs. Blues, The Good: Great pace to the game, at times Minnesota showed good patience to find seams in the Blues defense. Better effort & hustle than their game against Utah. #mnwild

St. Louis goal. Robert Thomas buries the empty netter to seal a 3-1 victory over Minnesota. Just prior, Mats Zuccarello forces a turnover and sets up Vladimir Tarasenko for a great chance from in close but he can't beat Hofer. That's how the cookie crumbles. #mnwild

St. Louis goal. Pavel Buchnevich puts a shot top corner by Gustavsson to give the Blues a 2-1 lead with 3:38 left in the 3rd. #mnwild

Wild and Blues tied at 1-1 after two. Minnesota carried more of the play that period, but it's still even on the scoreboard where it matters. The game has still had a pretty fast and heavy pace. #mnwild

St. Louis Blues goal. Logan Mailloux scores off the rush tying the game at 1-1 with 1:50 left in the 2nd. #mnwild

Wild goal! Minnesota converts on the 3-on-1 as Kirill Kaprizov finishes to be tied as the #mnwild's all time leading goal scorer. Power play goal on a fortunate call. 1-0 Wild with 3:44 left in the 2nd. From Boldy and Hughes.

Minnesota and St. Louis knotted at 0-0 after one in St. Paul. Pretty intense pace, quality chances to put the puck on goal have been hard to come by. Minnesota starts the 2nd on the man advantage. #mnwild

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Iowa Wild lost 6-2 last night to the Grand Rapids Griffins. Mark Liwiski (his 4th) and Nicolas Aube-Kubel (his 11th) had the goals for Iowa. Riley Heidt and Jack Peart had an assist apiece. Samuel Hlavaj had 20 saves in the loss. #IAWild #mnwild

Wild vs Mammoth, The Ugly: The sequence where you had 2-3 Wild forwards near the Utah crease with Vejmelka sprawled in the blue paint but the Wild couldn’t convert. Kind of summed up the game all by itself. #mnwild

Wild vs Mammoth, The Bad: Poor passing, lack of effort and hustle that left Wallstedt out to dry far too often. Zuccarello passing up shots certainly didn’t help the Wild’s cause tonight. #mnwild

Wild vs Mammoth, The Good: Matt Boldy showed some fire and ‘want to’ but that really was about it. There really wasn’t much good about this game from a Wild perspective beyond that it’s over now. #mnwild

Wild fall 5-2 to Utah. Can’t believe I stayed up to watch that paltry effort. Kaprizov and Boldy with the goals. Wallstedt left alone in the Utah sagebrush and he gets the loss. #mnwild

Wild goal. Boldy scores after a pass by Tarasenko. 5-2 Utah lead with 5:53 left in the 3rd. #mnwild

Crouse scores his 2nd goal of the game. Wallstedt should sue for neglect as his team did absolutely nothing to help him after Hartman couldn’t handle the puck. 5-1 Mammoth with 6:30 left in the 3rd. #mnwild

Hayton scores. Wallstedt lost his stick and lots of standing and watching the Mammoth move the puck around as they convert. 4-1 Utah with 18:10 left in the 3rd. #mnwild

Minnesota trails Utah 3-1 after two. Kaprizov with a power play goal. Unfortunately his best friend needs a court order before he decides to shoot a puck to matter how much time and space he has. Wild are lucky this one is this close. #mnwild

Wild goal. Boldy with a wicked cross ice pass to Kaprizov for the tap in. Power play goal, cuts Utah’s lead to two. 3-1 with 5:50 left in the 2nd. #mnwild

Dylan Guenther goal. After Matt Boldy passed up a chance to shoot, his pass resulted in a turnover and the Mammoth convert on the counterattack. Wild challenge for offsides and review confirms it. No goal and #mnwild still trail 3-0 with 7:11 left in the 2nd.

Lawson Crouse scores on the backhander as the #mnwild were chasing all over its own end unable to alleviate pressure in any way. 3-0 Mammoth with 11:20 left in the 2nd.

Mammoth hold a 1-0 advantage over Minnesota after one. Mammoth really dominated the play in the latter half of the period. Logan Cooley with the lone Utah goal. #mnwild

Iowa Wild win 3-2 over Grand Rapids at Van Andel Arena. Haight (his 11th), Olausson (his 10th) and Bankier (his 7th) with the goals. Cal Petersen had 32 saves in the victory. #IAWild #mnwild

Utah goal. Logan Cooley scores a shorthanded goal to give the Mammoth a 1-0 lead with 6:14 left in the 1st. #mnwild

Grand Rapids goal. Griffins strike on the power play as Shai Buium cuts Iowa’s lead to one, 3-2 with 1:40 left in the 3rd. #IAWild #mnwild

Grand Rapids goal. Griffins strike in the power play, tic-tac-toe as Brandsen-Nygaard scores to cut the Iowa lead to two, 3-1 with 16:26 left in the 3rd. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild goal! Caeden Bankier (his 7th) bangs one home with just 13 seconds left in the 2nd to take a 3-0 lead over Grand Rapids into the 2nd intermission. Haight and Olausson with the other goals. #IAWild #mnwild