Day One Wild Scrimmage

Good morning from Xcel Energy Center, where Group A and Group B are scrimmaging. Here are the teams.

To open camp, as expected, Zach Parise-Mikael Granlund-Jason Pominville vs. Thomas Vanek-Mikko Koivu-Charlie Coyle line. Those may very well be the top two lines Oct. 9 vs. Colorado.

Good-paced scrimmage so far. 3-1 Group A after one half.

Group B's Ryan Walters, a local kid and invitee, opened the scoring with a bad-angle shot past John Curry.

Parise tied the game a few moments later with a blocker-side wrister from the faceoff dot.

Later, Erik Haula, who like Granlund has been showing off all scrimmage, made a ridiculous back-handed cross-crease pass with the toe of his blade to set up Matt Cooke's backdoor tap-in.

Later, it became 3-1 when Parise beat Niklas Backstrom on a penalty shot after Justin Falk's interference penalty (no power play/penalty kill work yet).

However, I was chatting with Don Lucia during the entire second half for an upcoming story, so I may have missed a goal or three.

Players are split amongst three groups. We have had access to Group A so far, so I'll toss up a blog later with some of the comments and day events.

Just a reminder, Saturday's practices from 8:30 a.m.-1 is free and open to the public. The scrimmage starts at 9:25. Single-game tickets go on sale at the box office at 10 a.m.

Remember, the Wild's breakaway 10K/5K/1-Mile run will be going on then, so there will be traffic issues. If you're interested in taking part in that, you can register online today or in-person tomorrow from 7 a.m. – 8 a.m.

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