Springfield goal. Matt Luff buries the empty netter to seal an 8-6 victory over the Iowa Wild. Pitlick with two goals and a helper. Jiricek, Bankier, Peart, Gambrell with the other goals for Iowa. Cal Petersen with the loss. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild goal! Caeden Bankier buries his own rebound to cut the Springfield lead to one, 7-6 with 3:22 left in the 3rd. From Olausson. Springfield timeout #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild goal! David Jiricek (his 2nd of the season) to cut the Springfield lead to two, 7-5 with 6:18 left in the 3rd. #IAWild #mnwild from Jones & Heidt.

Iowa Wild goal! Dylan Gambrell (his 5th of the season) buries the rebound on the 5-on-3 power play to cut the Thunderbirds' lead to three, 7-4 with 11:14 left in the 3rd. #IAWild #mnwild From Jones and Pitlick

Springfield goal. Michael Buchinger sends one off Iowa goaltender William Rousseau and in, to give the Thunderbirds a 7-3 lead with 16:44 left in the 3rd. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild trail Springfield 6-3 after two. A pair of goals for Tyler Pitlick leads the way for Iowa, unfortunately, they've given up 6 to the Thunderbirds as Cal Petersen's rough week continues. Shots are 18-16 in favor of Iowa. #IAWild #mnwild

Springfield goal. Theo Lindstein scores to give the Thunderbirds a three-goal advantage, 6-3 with 10:13 left in the 2nd. #IAWild #mnwild

Springfield goal. Chris Wagner scores on a back door tap in to extend the Thunderbirds' lead back to two, 5-3 with 17:53 left in the 2nd. Power play goal. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild goal! Jack Peart (his 3rd of the season) lights the lamp with just 3 seconds left to cut Springfield's lead to one, after a nice set up by Aube-Kubel. 4-3 Springfield after one in Des Moines in a crazy back & forth game. #IAWIld #mnwild

Springfield goal. Thomas Bordeleau answers back for the Thunderbirds and they take a 4-2 lead with a goal that goes top shelf over the shoulder of Petersen. 3:48 left in the 1st period. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild goal! Tyler Pitlick scores on a backhander to cut the Springfield lead to one, 3-2 with 4:40 left in the 1st. Pitlick's 2nd goal of the night from Kiersted and Haight who has his 2nd helper of the game. #IAWIld #mnwild

Springfield goal. Stancl scores to extend Springfield's lead to two, 3-1 as he beats Petersen 5-hole. 9:53 left in the 1st. #IAWild #mnwild

Springfield goal. Calle Rosen scores on a long range shot that beats Cal Petersen. 2-1 Thunderbirds with 13:09 left in the 1st period. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild goal! Tyler Pitlick ties the game up at 1-1 on the power play goal. Pitlick's 4th of the season from Jones and Haight. 16:01 left in the 1st period. #IAWild #mnwild

Springfield goal. Otto Stenberg scores a shorthanded goal and the Thunderbirds take a 1-0 lead over Iowa early in the 1st period. 18:20 left in the 1st period. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild fall to the Springfield Thunderbirds 6-3 in Des Moines. Oskar Olausson, Nicolas Aube-Kubel and Bradley Marek with the goals for Iowa. Cal Petersen had 23 saves in the loss. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild trail Springfield 4-2 after two. Oskar Olausson (his 8th) and Nicholas Aube-Kubel (his 9th) with the goals for Iowa. Shots are 22-15 in favor of Springfield. #IAWild #mnwild

Italy ties the game at 2 37 seconds into the second. 2 goals on 4 shots on Gus

#mnwild farmhand Samuel Hlavaj 9 1/2 minutes from backstopping Slovakia to an upset over Finland

Team USA women's hockey defeats Canada 5-0 to wrap up their prelim play. USA outscored oppone is 20-1 in four games. Three assists, multiple drawn penalties by Abbey Murphy. Quarterfinals on Friday. USA is the top seed.

5-0. Laila Edwards. Bad turnover by Canada

4-0 USA after 2 (outscored Canada 24-7 in 4 Rivalry Series games). They've only allowed one goal in the tournament and they're 11 periods in. Canada opens third with 1:53 power play

Three assists for Abbey Murphy, who like a point guard held the puck, drew defenders and assisted on Hannah Bilka's second goal of the game. 4-0 USA

USA makes it 3-0 early in the second period. Simms with the goal. Taylor Heise with the second assist on the play for her second assist of the Olympics.

1-0 USA 3:45 in. Caroline Harvey picks up where she left off last night. Beauty move to evade defender

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Pretty incredible story, no wonder that group of young men possess such great hockey talent and hockey sense. The mom is the hockey professor / whisperer. What a great resource for her sons and the USA Women’s squad for sure!

Iowa Wild goal! Jean-Luc Foudy scores an empty netter to seal a 5-2 victory over the Rockford Ice Hogs for their 3rd win in a row. Gambrell with two goals, Kiersted and Bankier with a goal each. Aube-Kubel with two helpers. Petersen with 23 saves in the win. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild goals! Dylan Gambrell strikes again for his 2nd goal of the game and @ERHockey alum Matt Kiersted scores his 1st of the season to give Iowa a 4-2 lead over Rockford with 5:36 left in the 3rd. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild and Rockford Ice Hogs are knotted at 2-2 after two in Rockford. Gambrell and Bankier with the goals for Iowa, Duluth East alum Dominic Toninato has both goals for Rockford. Rockford leads 16-12 in shots. #IAWild #mnwild

Iowa Wild and Rockford Ice Hogs tied at 2-2 with 7:31 left in the 2nd. Dylan Gambrell (his 3rd of the season) and Caeden Bankier (his 5th of the season) with the goals for Iowa. Petersen in net. Shots are 13-11 in favor of Rockford. #IAWild #mnwild

With the #mnwild on its Olympic break, our next show is focusing on the Iowa Wild, got an Iowa Wild question on your mind? Ask us and tag it #CreasePodcast and we will answer it in our next show.

Let’s get this party started 🎉 USA kicks off the games with a 5-1 win powered by goals from @pwhltorrent.bsky.social’s Alex Carpenter & Hilary Knight and @victoire-lphf.bsky.social Hayley Scamurra!

Wild go into the Olympic break with five consecutive wins, including the last two in overtime. They've won 8 of their last 10 games. Frost went into the break winning 3-of-4 games, including outscoring opponents 10-3 in their last two victories.

Excellent summary by @wardcarroll.bsky.social of the U.S. interception of an Iranian drone that was getting dangerously close to an American aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. It's a good, quick watch.

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I regret to inform people there will not be my quick the Good, the Bad and the Ugly game summary as I will be out playing trivia for a good portion of the Wild / Nashville game tonight. #mnwild

Which #mnwild prospect, mostly playing in Iowa this season has the most potential to be a contributor at the #NHL level? #CreasePodcast reply if other; Hunter Haight, David Spacek, Riley Heidt or Carson Lambos? @practicalfractal.bsky.social @aurora-boreali.bsky.social @andreas-kff-wild.bsky.social

Wild vs. Canadiens, The Ugly: Another overtime game where you kind of felt if the Wild were a bit sharper at the end of the 1st and 2nd perhaps they wouldn't need overtime to win this game. Losing Daemon Hunt isn't good, and Bogosian was pretty rusty out there. #mnwild

Wild vs. Canadiens, The Bad: Giving up late-period goals in the 1st and 2nd were absolute momentum killers. It smacked of a tired club. Hughes' effort on Gallagher's goal was blech. Fortunately, those mistakes didn't cost them, this time. #mnwild

Wild vs. Canadiens, The Good: Minnesota didn't lose its cool when it saw its lead evaporate late in the 2nd and early into the 3rd. They stuck to their game and showed some urgency. Hughes continues to dazzle. Faber comes up with a clutch goal. Gustavsson solid. #mnwild

Wild win! Kaprizov nets his 2nd goal of the game by firing a laser from the point that beats Dobes clean! A collision near the Montreal blue line between Eriksson Ek and Suzuki kind of helped open up the play. 4-3 Wild win in overtime! Gustavsson with the win. #mnwild

Wild and Canadiens headed to OT, tied at 3-3. #mnwild

Wild goal! Brock Faber picks up a loose puck and strikes off the rush (his 13th of the season) tying the game at 3-3 with 12:55 left in the 3rd! #mnwild

Montreal goal. Nick Suzuki finds Dach who scores just 12 seconds in to take a 3-2 lead over Minnesota. Way too easy...with 19:16 left in the 3rd. #mnwild

Montreal goal. Wild trying to kill time, just sending pucks out of the zone but Montreal gets it under control and Lane Hutson sets up Ivan Demidov for a one-timer that beats Gustavsson to tie the game at 2-2 with about 17 seconds left in the 2nd. #mnwild

Wild hold on to a 2-1 lead after one in St. Paul. Gallagher's late period goal certainly doused the home crowd's enthusiasm. Goals from Eriksson Ek & Kaprizov. #mnwild