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Wild's goaltending situation is a major question after playoff defeat

Cam Talbot was benched during the best run of his NHL career, assigned to being the Wild's backup when the team started the playoffs before making a last-ditch, pinch-hit effort in a season-ending loss to the Blues.

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Blues tame the Wild, take series with 5-1 win

ST. LOUIS — Nick Leddy opened the door. Ryan O’Reilly, Tyler Bozak and Vladimir Tarasenko then kicked it over.

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La Velle E. Neal III: Kirill Kaprizov played desperate hockey, but didn't get a lot of help from Wild teammates

Even before Kirill Kaprizov single-handedly got the Wild back in the game Tuesday, he showed he was not going to be held back by the Blues.

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Tarasenko hat trick sparks Blues, who rally past Wild, 5-2

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The statistics tell you that when a series is tied two games apiece, the winner of Game 5 goes on to win an NHL best-of-seven series more than 79% of the time.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blackhawks don’t win draft lottery, officially cede first-round pick to Blue Jackets

The Hawks’ 15.4% chance of winning the No. 1 or 2 overall pick didn’t come to fruition Tuesday, and the pick is now gone for good — completing the regrettable Seth Jones trade package.

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Wild's Fiala-Gaudreau-Boldy line: 'We've gotta find a way to be better'

The Wild has already shown how it stacks up against the Blues when it has two forward lines creating the bulk of its offense.

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Blues bounce back, tie series with 4-2 win

ST. LOUIS — We now have a best-of-3 series, hockey fans. Win two and advance. Lose two and go home. Getting two goals each from Jordan Kyrou and David Perron, and strong goaltending with Jordan Binnington in the net, the Blues defeated Minnesota 5-2 on Sunday.

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Jordan Greenway brings size, skill, and swag to Wild playoff run

ST. LOUIS — Wild winger Jordan Greenway made his NHL debut on March 27, 2018. A few weeks after that, he was playing in a playoff series against the rival Winnipeg Jets. As a wide-eyed, 21-year-old kid, nonetheless.

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Wild takes control of series with Game 3 blowout win over Blues

ST. LOUIS – Kirill Kaprizov was still in Russia, Jordan Greenway was a rookie who left college earlier in the year and Marc-Andre Fleury was backstopping Vegas.

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Ben Frederickson: Blues battling some no-good, old-fashioned bad luck as series against Wild shifts to home ice

A bright orange ladder could be found leaning against the wall outside of the Enterprise Center media room Thursday, but it’s not like Blues coach Craig Berube opened it up and walked beneath it.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Chip Scoggins: Wild back in high gear as floodgates open after one game break in Game 2

Hockey is a weird game. Sometimes weird is beautiful.

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Wild awaken with monster first period to even series with Blues

The Wild improved the power play and penalty kill, cleaning up the messes from the dud two nights earlier, and that helped the team solve the biggest problem of them all.

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Panthers’ Brunette opens up about an ‘awful’ 2021 and how he stays so calm under pressure

Andrew Brunette did not know what was going to come next. It was a feeling he had before: When he retired from the NHL after 1,110 games and 268 goals in 2013, he thought about coaching, going to work in a front office or maybe even getting on television —…

Miami Herald

A hat trick for Perron, a shutout for Husso in 4-0 Blues playoff win

For a couple weeks as Minnesota and St. Louis jockeyed down the stretch for playoff position, all the talk was about home-ice advantage. Who would get it? How much of a factor would it be?

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Chip Scoggins: Talbot or Fleury? Goalie debate shows Wild in good spot for playoffs

MINNEAPOLIS — The 2003 NHL draft began with the Pittsburgh Penguins selecting goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury with the No. 1 overall pick, the first step in a career that will conclude in the Hall of Fame someday.

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Wild earns home ice and beats Avalanche, but loses Marcus Foligno with injury

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Wild won home-ice advantage for the first round of the playoffs but lost a key player.

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Kirill Kaprizov scores game-winner in overtime as Wild tops Calgary

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Wild won't be getting upset by any more non-playoff teams.

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Wild's long streaks come to an end with 5-3 loss to Coyotes

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Wild has won more games in the last week than the Coyotes have over the past month-plus, but this disparity didn't show up on the ice.

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Benjamin Hochman: Wait, is home ice really that important in the Blues-Wild series?

In the National Hockey League postseason, home ice actually doesn’t really matter too much.

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Kirill Kaprizov reaches 101 points as Wild uses five-goal second period to beat Kraken

ST. PAUL, Minn. — From a no-quit resilience to dazzling offensive performances, the hallmarks of the Wild's season were on display in its latest record-breaking showing.

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Kevin Fiala scores 30th goal of the season in Wild's 2-0 win over Canadiens

MONTREAL — The Wild didn't bring its high-octane offense with it to Montreal, but the team still outscored the struggling Canadiens.

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La Velle E. Neal III: Offseason conundrum: Should the Wild keep Fiala or Dumba?

Kevin Fiala scored Tuesday in Montreal and became the 42nd player in the NHL to enter the coveted 30-goal zone this season.

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Wild clinches NHL playoff berth with overtime victory over San Jose

MINNEAPOLIS — The Wild is officially playoff bound.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Ben Frederickson: Winning playoff hockey, like getting stuck in an elevator, is about finding a way to win

Playoff hockey, it occurred to me Saturday evening while sharing a confined space with a mix of colleagues and strangers turned friends, is kind of like getting stuck in an Enterprise Center elevator.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Blues clinch playoff berth with 6-5 OT win over Wild

ST. LOUIS — Welcome to the postseason, Blues fans. Brayden Schenn buried a rebound of a Pavel Buchnevich wraparound 56 seconds into overtime, giving the Blues a 6-5 victory over the Minnesota Wild.

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