Dylan Loucks is the Site Admin and Reporter for the Minnesota Wild team site with The Hockey News. A resident of St. Paul, MN, Loucks has spent the last four years covering hockey and in his spare time likes to work on his expected goals model and other models he is creating.

Marcus Johansson tacked on an empty-netter ... who'd allowed a total of three goals over two earlier wins against the Blues this season. Marc-Andre Fleury had a stellar night in relief of Gustavsson, stopping all 16 shots he faced — including a close ...

"It's fun to be playing those situations when it's on the line," Jonas Brodin said. "That's what you dream about when you're a kid."

The Minnesota Wild wouldn’t need much time to identify a theme for their first half of the regular season — unfazed ought to do it.

The Minnesota Wild rallied with four unanswered goals in a 6-4 win over the St. Louis Blues Tuesday night at Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., but they lost defenseman Brock Faber in the process as he was ruled out of the game with an upper-body injury.

Fleury stopped 36 of 37 shots in Saturday's 3-1 win over the Sharks. Fleury had been battling an illness earlier in the week, but he was able to handle the goaltending duties for the first half of ...

Marc-Andre Fleury was so ill ... being up by a couple of goals, and Fleury ensured that they held on with 36 saves. “He was unbelievable,” Marcus Foligno said. “Definitely won that game ...

Sidney Crosby and Marc-Andre Fleury are the best of friends and will ... older brother’s jersey rise to the roof for eternity. Marcus Foligno was wondering during a practice earlier last week ...

Still, Hynes never imagined Kaprizov would be sidelined this long. He was actually placed on long-term injured reserve retroactively to have enough salary-cap space to juggle thei

Kaprizov, who's been out since Dec. 23 with a lower-body injury, joined his first full practice since then on Friday as did defensemen Brock Faber (upper body) and Jared Spurgeon (lower body), according to The Athletic's Michael Russo.

Kaprizov has missed the past 10 games with a lower-body injury that has required lots of treatments and pushed-back timetables.

Wild players wanted a stiffer penalty for Zach L’Heureux from the NHL but say they're happy to take matters into their own hands Saturday.