Minnesota Wild Analysis
2023-24 RealGM NHL Stanley Cup Predictions
We're predicting the Avalanche beating the Hurricanes in the 2024 Stanley Cup Finals. Read more »
2018-19 RealGM NHL Hockey Power Rankings
While Washington and Vegas went to the Stanley Cup last season, we're predicting Tampa Bay and San Jose for 2019. Read more »
2017-18 RealGM NHL Hockey Power Rankings
Sidney Crosby and the Penguins hope to threepeat while Connor McDavid and the Oilers may represent their toughest challenge. Read more »
NHL Power Rankings: (November 22nd Edition)
Casey Price and the Canadiens rank first ahead of Patrick Kane and the Blackhawks. Read more »
2015 NHL Offseason Power Rankings
The NHL's more elite free agents have either moved on or re-signed with their home team, trades have been made and the draft has come and gone. Read more »
RealGM's Predictions For The Second Round Of The Stanley Cup Playoffs
After going a respectable 6-2 predicting the first-round winners, RealGM takes a look at the Conference semifinals. Read more »
Recapping The 2015 NHL Trade Deadline
As the trade deadline passed, we got a sense of the teams that are trying to fill whatever depth holes that they had. There wasn't a ton of action on deadline day itself, but the weeks preceding it were filled with big trades that have major implications as we progress towards the playoffs. Read more »
NHL Power Rankings, Mid-January Edition
The Predators, Blackhawks, Ducks, Lightning, Rangers and Islanders have all been banking wins of late to reach the top-tier of our NHL Power Rankings. Read more »
NHL Power Rankings, Mid-December Edition
There are 11 NHL teams all within five points of each other at the top of the standings, but the Blackhawks, Ducks, Red Wings, Penguins and Blues headline our rankings. Read more »
The Top Ten 2014 Unrestricted Free Agents
Paul Stastny, Thomas Vanek, Marian Gaborik and Jarome Iginla are some of the biggest names in free agency. Read more »
2014 NHL Power Rankings At Start Of Playoffs
The Bruins appear to be the consensus pick by many to win the Stanley Cup, though the Rangers may be that one dark-horse team to win it all. Read more »
2014 NHL Power Rankings At The Olympic Break
The Ducks, Blues, Blackhawks, Penguins and Avalanche move into our Top-Five NHL Teams at the Sochi Olympics break. Read more »
2013-14 NHL Power Rankings
The Bruins, Blackhawks, Penguins, Kings and Rangers are in the top-five of our preseason NHL Power Rankings. Read more »
Redoing The 1999 NHL Entry Draft
The 1999 draft was the one that GM Brian Burke has built his entire career around, acquiring both of the Sedins for the Canucks. Read more »
Improving The Wild: Finding Goal Scorers
It seems to be a recurring theme, but the Minnesota Wild simply do not score enough goals to be a playoff team (they averaged a league-low 2.02 goals per game). That was supposed to be fixed entering this season with the additions of Dany Heatley and Devin Setoguchi. But it is clear that the talent level up front is not up to par. Read more »
Greatest Roster Series: Minnesota Wild
In their ten seasons as the Wild, Minnesota has made the playoffs only three times, including making it to the Western Conference Finals in 2003. Read more »
Identity Crisis
Since their inception in 2000, the Minnesota Wild have struggled to establish exactly who they are as a team, a franchise and an organization. The results have been mixed, yet the same: no sustained futility, no sustained success. Read more »
Grading The Deal: Koivu Signs Huge Extension
For Minnesota, Mikko Koivu's extension was as much about locking up a vital part of their team, as it was about not re-creating the Marion Gaborik saga. Read more »
A Shot Of 'Wild' Energy
If an NHL player were to be a canned beverage, Cal Clutterbuck would be a Red Bull. Read more »
The Border Battle: Minnesota Vs. Wisconsin
RealGM was on hand this past weekend at Mariucci Arena in Minneapolis, Minnesota, for one of collegiate hockey?s oldest rivalries "The Border Battle" between the Wisconsin Badgers and the Minnesota Golden Gophers. Read more »