Hockey Wilderness

The Wild Should Ditch the Four-Forward Power Play For Game 4

The revolution is over. Almost every team in the NHL has embraced the practice of putting four forwards on the power play. Statistically, it's the best bet. Forwards almost always have more shooting talent than defensemen,
Yahoo! Sports

Who's In Charge? Wild's Power Play Has Three Commanders

ST. PAUL, Minn - The Minnesota Wild enter the 2025-26 season with a good problem on its hands. Who runs the top power play? In previous years, the Wild never really had a sure-fire number one type of defenseman who could run the top unit. Now they enter ...
The New York Times

What’s behind the Wild’s even-strength power outage? Can a line shuffle fix it?

Kirill Kaprizov and Vladimir Tarasenko could see more time together. (David Berding / Getty Images) DALLAS — Four games into the season, the Minnesota Wild have been a tale of two, uh, strengths. On the power play, they look like the second coming of the ...
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Vladimir Tarasenko making an instant impact on Wild power play

WASHINGTON – If the puck doesn’t land on Zeev Buium’s stick when he’s quarterbacking the Wild power play, Buium believes there’s a good reason why … even if he isn’t sure exactly what it is. “You know something is gonna happen,” the ...