The lockout is officially over after 119 days.
More than 98 percent of the players voted to ratify the collective bargaining agreement Saturday, and hours later, the NHL and NHL Players' Association signed off on the Memorandum of Understanding, a legally binding document that will suffice while the collective bargaining agreement is written.
The NHL is back in business.
Training camps will open across the NHL on Sunday -- the Wild, with coach Mike Yeo on the ice for the first time, takes the ice at Xcel Energy Center at 10:30 a.m. Transactions can occur -- the Wild signed restricted free agent Nick Palmieri. And each team's 48-game schedule was released.
The Wild opens with a three-game homestand Saturday against Colorado, next Sunday against Dallas and Jan. 22 against Nashville. That will be defenseman Ryan Suter's first game against his old team. Suter visits Nashville on March 9.
The Wild plays Northwest Division foes Vancouver and Edmonton four times each and Colorado and Calgary five times each. The Avalanche visits St. Paul three times, while the Wild travels to Calgary three times.
The Wild plays the 10 other Western Conference teams three times each, with Chicago, Columbus, Los Angeles, Nashville and St. Louis coming twice to Xcel Energy Center.
The Wild, which plays 14 games in 27 days in April, plays three of its final four games at home, ending April 27 at Colorado. It has nine back-to-backs and three-game homestands three times and three-game road trips three times.
