The Wild season opener will be Thursday, Oct. 8, at Colorado and the team's home opener will be Saturday, Oct. 10, against St. Louis.
The team released those dates today; the remainder of the schedule will come out Thursday morning.
Russo's on his way to Florida for the draft; not sure if he'll file a lengthy analysis of the first two games of next season later or not ... stay tuned.
Sarah McLellan is an Edmonton native. She graduated from the Cronkite School of Journalism at Arizona State, and covered the Coyotes for five years at the Arizona Republic before arriving at the Star Tribune in November 2017.
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