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Granlund doesn't blame broken hand for playoff struggles
Mikael Granlund was loath to blame a broken right hand in Game 1 for his inability to score in the playoffs after finishing the regular season with a career-high 26 goals and 69 points.
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Season wrap-up: Wild's players, coaches, executives look back and ahead
The Wild held its end-of-the-year availability on Tuesday, and here's a synopsis of the morning sessions from the press conference room and the locker room.
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Souhan: Five playoff games isn't good enough, no matter what Fletcher says
Instead of admitting that spending all of five games in the playoffs was a failure, Wild GM Chuck Fletcher tried to put a positive spin on the season.
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Lucky Eric Staal's head injury 'could have been a lot worse'
The Wild center sustained a concussion in Game 5 of the team's playoff series against the St. Louis Blues, but he knows he avoided a catastrophic injury after he uncontrollably crashed head-first into the boards.
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Wild's puzzling collapse begs for the reasons why
Another first-round exit leaves plenty of blame to go around.
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Lawsuit against NHL over concussions heating up
Many of the 126 former players in the suit have Minnesota connections.
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Yeo wasn't the only coach to get Stanley Cup revenge
The NHL coaching community witnessed a day of vengeance last weekend. The trio of coaches celebrating first-round playoff victories Saturday did so against former employers.
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Wild's Granlund named finalist for Lady Byng Trophy
Granlund, 25, had a career-high 69 points this past season, tied for the fourth most in a single season in Wild history, with only 12 penalty minutes.
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Dealing with the end of the Wild's season
Wild fans are in different stages of grief after the team's five-game ouster from the playoffs by the Blues.
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U.S. defeats Finland in U-18 Worlds gold-medal game
Joel Farabee scored twice to help the U.S. Men's National Under-18 Team defeat Finland 4-2 on Sunday in the gold-medal game of the 2017 IIHF Under-18 Men's World Championship.
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Souhan: Wild GM's moves were logical yet fruitless
Chuck Fletcher has much for which to answer, but most of his recent mistakes or misjudgments stemmed from managing an inflexible roster.
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Wild's Granlund named Lady Byng Trophy finalist
Granlund will find out if he won the award on June 21 in Las Vegas.
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Blues coach Yeo sought advancement, not revenge
"I don't want it to be a story,'' he said. "My goal is not to beat the Minnesota Wild for me. My goal is for us as a group to keep getting better, and keep seeing what we're capable of.''
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Blues end Wild's season with series-clinching overtime goal
The Wild didn't go quietly Saturday afternoon, but few will remember the Wild's franchise-best regular season now that the team couldn't even get past Game 5 of the first round.
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Wild's Staal hospitalized after going headfirst into end boards
Staal grabbed his head and lay on the ice for several minutes as he was attended to by team medical personnel. He was released from Regions Hospital later Saturday night.
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Game 5: St. Louis 4, Wild 3 (OT)
Magnus Paajarvi scored from right in front at 9:42 of overtime to lift the St. Louis Blues over the Wild 4-3 to win the Western Conference first-round matchup at Xcel Energy Center on Saturday.
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Wild-St. Louis Game 5 recap
Colton Parayko, the Blues' giant young defenseman, can be meticulous behind his own net, but played 28:52, blocked five shots and was a plus-3.
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Souhan: Wild, again, not good enough when it matters
Since owner Craig Leipold spent about $200 million on two premier players, his team is 2-5 in playoff series and has not advanced beyond the second round.
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Postgame: Disappointment, bewilderment as Wild's season ends abruptly
The Wild's 49-win, 106-point regular season means nothing now that it bowed out in five games to MIke Yeo and the St. Louis Blues.
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- Hyman gets 1st playoff hat trick, McDavid has 5 assists as Oilers beat Kings 7-4 in Game 1
- Vegas captain Stone scores quick in return and defending Cup champions open with 4-3 win at Dallas
- Aho, Martinook cap Hurricanes' late rally to beat the Islanders for a 2-0 playoff series lead
- Matthews scores as Maple Leafs beat Bruins 3-2 to tie their series at 1 game apiece
- Sabres hire Lindy Ruff as coach. He guided Buffalo to the playoffs in 2011
- Panthers, Rangers, Jets and Canucks back home for Game 2s, all seeking 2-0 NHL playoff series leads
- Dakota Joshua scores 2 goals to help lift Canucks past Predators 4-2 in Game 1 of playoff series
- Lowry, Connor propel Jets to 7-6 playoff win over Avalanche
- Jimmy Vesey and Artemi Panarin lead Rangers to 4-1 win over Capitals in Game 1
- Panthers score twice in the third period and beat the Lightning 3-2 in Game 1 of NHL playoffs
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