Minnesota Wild BAGM NHL10

[mikko1995]

MINNESOTA SUN

Minnesota Wild announced that coach Jacques Lemaire and GM Doug Risebrough will leave Wild's organisation.Owner Graig Leipold said ''It was time to refresh the organisation and thank you mr.Lemaire and mr.Risebrough for all what they have done to Wild.'',Minnesota native Michael Holden will take both coach and GM jobs.''My first job here is to make good draft selection's next week and ofcourse try to improve team's offense and defense.The goaliedepartment doesn't need any new faces we have the league's best goalie Niklas Backstrom and one of the best back-up goalies Josh Harding.'',Michael Holden said.

[GoldenJet]

Nice, good to see you putting up a dynasty.

[mikko1995]

MINNESOTA SUN

Montreal,QC
So the draft is over and it's time to recap the Wild's draft picks and the biggest trades.

1st round. LW W.Allen 76 ovr from Canada
2nd round. D J.Bergstrom 75 ovr from Sweden
3rd round. G J.Yzerman 74 ovr from Canada
4th round. RW A.Corso 69 ovr from Canada
5th round. G R.Sumal 71 ovr from Canada

Biggest trades:
Chicago acquires Robyn Regehr from Calgary in exchange for Kris Versteeg and Chicago's 3rd round pick.
St.Louis Blues acquires Brian Gionta from Montreal in exchange for Barret Jakman.
Buffalo acquired Vyacheslav Kozlov from Atlanta in exchange for Graig Rivet.
Detroit acquires John Madden,Andy Hobson and Adam Berti from Chigaco in exchange for Jakub Kindl and Daniel Cleary.
Chicago acquires Martin Havlat and Nick Schultz from Minnesota in exchange for Marian Hossa.

[mikko1995]

MINNESOTA SUN

Minneapolis,MN
Now that the free agent period has started two weeks ago we are going to look at the moves after the draft.Especially Minnesota was agressive.
Minnesota signed all their draft picks.

Biggest moves:
Carolina signed Steve Eminger to a 2 year contract.
Minnesota signed Marc-Andre Bergeron to a 2 year contract.
Minnesota signed Alex Tanguay to a 3 year contract.
Minnesota acquired Colorado's,Nashville's and New York Islander's first round draft picks when Petr Kalus went to Colorado,Maxim Noreau to Nashville and Anton Khudobin to Islanders.

[mikko1995]

MINNESOTA SUN

Minneapolis,MN
Now that the season is starting we take a look at the biggest moves from the summer.(First two weeks not in this.)

Biggest moves from the summer:
New Jersey signed free agent Lee Sweatt to a 3 year contract.
Florida acquired Nikolai Zherdev and NY Rangers second round draft pick from NY Rangers in exchange for Greg Cambell and Florida's second round draft pick.
Detroit acquired Ryan Hamilton and Colton Orr from Toronto in exchange for Chris Osgood and Detroit's first round draft pick.
Montreal signed Manny Legace to a 4 year contract.
Florida acquired Brian Pothier and Washington's scond and third round draft pick from Washington in exchange for Joey Mormina.
Washington signed Andy Chiodo to a 3 year contract.
Edmonton signed Martin Biron to a 3 year contract.
Detroit signed Manny Fernandez to a 3 year contract.
Toronto acquired Brad Lukowich and San Jose's second round draft pick from San Jose in exchange for Ian White.
Toronto acquired Pavol Demitra from Vancouver in exchange for Mikhail Grabovski.
Columbus acquired Willie Mitchell from Vancouver in exchange for Fredrik Modin.
San Jose acquired Cory Sarich from Calgary in exchange for Jason Demers and Rob Blake.
Buffalo acquired Matt Greene and Brad Richardson from Los Angeles in exchange for Calvin Colliton and Henrik Tallinder.
Dallas acquired Paul Martin and Mike Mottau from New Jersey in exchange for Trevor Daley and Brian Sutherby.
Tampa Bay acquired Georges Laraque and Montreal's fourth round draft pick from Montreal in exhange for Brandon Bochenski.
Pittsburgh acquired Steve Ott and Joel Lundqvist from Dallas in exchange for Ruslan Fedotenko and Mike Rupp.
Anaheim acquired Brad Gray,Dimitri Karpotsev and Jason Krog from Atlanta in exchange for Joffrey Lupul,Troy Bodie and Drew Miller.
Minnesota signed Dale Purinton to a 3 year contract.

[mikko1995]

MINNESOTA SUN

MINNESOTA'S OPENING NIGHT LINE-UP AGAINST BLUE JACKETS

1st line

Alex Tanguay-Mikko Koivu (C)-Marian Hossa

Marek Zidlicky-Brent Burns (A)

2nd line

Andrew Brunette (A)-P-M Bouchard-Owen Nolan
Greg Zanon-M-A Bergeron

3rd line
Derek Boogard-James Sheppard-Antti Miettinen
Johan Bergstrom-Dale Purinton

4th line
William Allen-Eric Belanger-Cal Clutterbuck

Goalies
Nicklas Backstrom
Josh Harding

(C)=Team captain
(A)=Alternate captain

[mikko1995]

MINNESOTA WILD - COLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS

SCORE: 3 - 1
SHOTS: 32 - 20
HITS: 26 - 15
FACEOFFS: 12 - 12
POWERPLAY: 1/3 - 0/3

1st PERIOD
3.45 Zidlicky HIGH STICKING 2 min

2nd PERIOD
3.00 Hossa SLASHING 2 min
3.13 Filatov ROUGHING 2 min
3.13 Belanger ROUGHING 2 min
4.44 Vermette HIGH STICKING 2 min
5.25 1 - 0 Bergeron (Bouchard) PPG
16.22 2 - 0 Nolan (Koivu-Tanguay)
19.58 3 - 0 Bouchard (Brunette-Zanon)

3rd PERIOD
10.40 Vermette TRIPPING 2 min
11.55 Boll DELAY OF GAME 2 mins
15.30 Clutterbuck CHECKING FROM BEHIND 2 min
17.23 Tanguay INTERFERENCE 2 min
19.21 Commodore FIGHTING 5 min
19.21 Boogard FIGHTING 5 min
19.33 3 - 1 Brassard (Vermette-Voracek)

GOALIE STATS:
Backstrom 19/20 GAA 1,00 SV% 95,00%
Garon 29/32 GAA 3,00 SV% 90,60%

THREE STARS:
3rd STAR: Backstrom 19/20 SAVES 95,00 SV%
2nd STAR: Nolan 1+0 +/- 2
1st STAR: Bouchard 1+1 +/- 1

NEXT MATCH:
Ducks (1-0-0) @ Wild (1-0-0)

[mikko1995]

MINNESOTA SUN

Columbus,OH
Minnesota Wild opened their season with a win in the road against the Columbus Blue Jackets.Both teams started carefully the Blue Jackets because of Marian Hossa and Alex Tanguay and the Wild because it was their coaches first game as a headcoach in the NHL. Marek Zidlicky tooked a high sticking penalty but Blue Jackets weren't able to score on their powerplay.The second period started with a lot of penalties and Marc-Andre Bergeron scored with a slapshot from the point after five minutes of play.Ten minutes after the first goal Minnesota's captain Mikko Koivu got a 2-1 attack with Owen Nolan.Nolan scored from Koivu's pass and the game was 2-0.In the last minute of the period Andrew Brunette founded Pierre-Marc Bouchard free and passed it to him and Bouchard scored with two seconds remaining.The last period was just playing for Wild and Boogard fought with Mike Commodore and ''Boogie'' won the fight.12 seconds later Derick Brassard scored to make it 3-1 ,that was the final score.