Since before the summer, the NHL has been waiting for the next big name to shake loose. The Minnesota Wild are, finally, no exception. But just as they regained their flexibility to make moves, the trade market dried up.

Collin Graf scored 2:41 into overtime and the surging San Jose Sharks came back to beat the Minnesota Wild 2-1 on Tuesday night.

Minnesota Wild President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin today announced the National Hockey League (NHL) club has recalled defenseman David Špaček (SPAH-chehk) from the Iowa Wild of the American Hockey League (AHL).

The Wild are getting a key reinforcement at a time when they desperately need it. Veteran winger Mats Zuccarello has been activated off of injured reserve and is set to make his season debut in Friday night's road game against the New York Islanders.

Minnesota has won two of its six games as a favorite this season. In three games with moneyline odds shorter than -165, the Wild have one win. The moneyline odds say Minnesota has a 62.3% chance of winning this game. Minnesota and its opponent have combined to score more than 6 goals in 10 of 16 games this season.

Minnesota Wild forward Marcus Johansson is scheduled to play in his 1,000th National Hockey League (NHL) game tonight when the Wild hosts the Calgary Flames at 7 p.m. on FanDuel Sports Network North and KFAN FM 100.

Since his diagnosis last January, Weston has spent much of his time in the hospital. But on Thursday, he had somewhere special to be.

Last year, the Minnesota Wild's motto was "Choose Your Hard." We don't know what their motto is this year, but "Choose Your Harden" is as good a guess as any. That's a Pokémon joke, so let's explain that real quick.

Stan Nelson served in the U.S. Navy for three years and participated in the D-Day invasion of Normandy, and now he is being honored as the oldest living World War II veteran in Minnesota.