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Minnesota Wild Antti Miettinen scored the winning goal in a shootout to give the Minnesota Wild a 5-4 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers in the final preseason game for both teams on Tuesday....
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Minnesota Wild goaltender Niklas Backstrom underwent successful hip surgery on Friday and will have a recovery timetable of about 12 weeks. According to the team's website, Backstrom had a labral deficiency and cartilage damage repaired by Dr. Marc...
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The Minnesota Stars are looking to avoid a three-game slide following Thursday’s 2-1 shootout loss at Colorado. Marc-Andre Bergeron gave the Wild a 1-0 lead with a first-period power-play goal, but Minnesota could not convert on its final four opportunities with the man advantage....
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One of six teams to score 200 goals this season, San Jose Sharks (42-11-9) has been limited to seven in the last five games - its fewest in a five-game stretch all season. Only two of those goals have not come on the power play. The San Jose Sharks have been limited to three goals on 73 shots in dropping their last two games. Now they look to avoid matching their longest losing streak of the season as they continue to battle Detroit for the best record in the Western Conference.
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Vancouver Canucks forward Alex Burrows celebrated his contract extension Tuesday by making it a lot tougher for Minnesota Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom to enjoy the first night of his new deal. Backstrom’s four-year, $24-million extension earlier in the day may have trumped the four-year, $8 million deal Burrows agreed to just before the game. But with two goals, the gritty Vancouver Canucks winger was the only one smiling after a 4-2 win over the Minnesota Wild.
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Roloson made 43 saves, Ales Hemsky, Zack Stortini and Tom Gilbert scored goals, and Liam Reddox had two assists to help the Edmonton Oilers beat the Minnesota Wild 3-2 on Saturday night. The Edmonton Oilers moved into a tie with Anaheim for seventh place—a point ahead of ninth-place Nashville and two ahead of Minnesota Wild and Dallas in the tight race for the eight playoff spots.
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Miikka Kiprusoff made 15 saves, and Dion Phaneuf and Jamie Lundmark also scored for Calgary, which has won four straight and picked up points in nine games in a row (7-0-2). Wild defenseman Marc-Andre Bergeron spoiled Kiprusoff’s shutout bid with 3:36 left....
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Drew Doughty didn’t get much of a shot off against Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom, but the puck somehow trickled into the net. The Kings’ regulation goal was knocked in by a Minnesota Wild defender and the Kings escaped with two points....
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Dan Fritsche also scored for Minnesota Wild, which was outplayed in the first half of the game, but rebounded to end Chicago’s four-game winning streak. The Wild’s NHL-leading penalty kill snuffed all eight Chicago Blackhawk advantages. Josh Harding, the backup to Niklas Backstrom, was sharp—and nearly perfect—in posting his first win since Nov. 29 at Nashville. Jonathan Toews was the only Blackhawk to beat him.
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