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The Wild Warmup is presented by Bryant Heating and Cooling   With just four games remaining in the regular season schedule, the Wild will play its final home contests this weekend when the Anaheim Ducks come to town for back-to-back games at Xcel Energy Center. The games mark the conclusion of a seven-game homestand for Minnesota and two games on the home docket before a season-ending trip to St. Louis for two games next week.  With less than a week remaining, much is left to be decided for Minnesota.  It's still alive to win the West Division crown, although those hopes took a big hit whe...

BLUES VS. DUCKS Where: Enterprise Center in St. Louis Watch: Bally Sports Midwest, Bally Sports App Listen: 101 ESPN, NHL App Season series presented by Jack Daniel's: Blues lead 5-2   GAME STORYLINES - Wednesday's game will be the final meeting of the season between the Blues and Ducks. The Blues are 5-1-1 against Anaheim this season. - David Backes is expected to play for the Ducks on Wednesday night. Backes, who has hinted at retirement recently, played 727 games with the Blues and ranks seventh in franchise history in points (460).   Jan. 30: Blues 6, Ducks 1 Jordan Kyrou scored 20 seco...

Bortuzzo, Schenn score in Blues' victory over Ducks Robert Bortuzzo got his first goal of the season and Brayden Schenn also scored, leading the St. Louis Blues to a 3-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night. The Canadian Press VIDEO SIGN OUT ST. LOUIS — Robert Bortuzzo got his first goal of the season and Brayden Schenn also scored, leading the St. Louis Blues to a 3-1 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Monday night. It was Bortuzzo's third career game-winner. “He's not a gifted scorer or anything,” St. Louis coach Craig Berube said. “Or a gifted puck guy. But he has a very s...

Minnesota State Mavericks Season Review Following this accomplishment, the Mavericks won their first NCAA game in school history, defeating Quinnipiac in overtime. They shut out Minnesota University in the NCAA West Final and reached the Frozen Four for the first time.  Minnesota State eventually fell to St. Cloud, as a goal late in regulation would end the Mavericks hopes of advancing. This season, filled with quarantines, uncertainty, and unprecedented success, was one for the history books. Future Minnesota State University teams will be sure to try and model this...

Marty Rochester’s March 24 opinion piece, “Oy vey: The excesses of identity politics,” cries out for rebuttal on a number of fronts. Since I’m having trouble deciding whether I am, in Rochester’s words, a “garden-variety liberal” or a “left-wing extremist,” I’ll let other more astute readers…