The day after Darcy Kuemper gave up his 200th career goal, Jack Van Thomme sat down with Tony, and the two discussed every aspect of the Wild’s week, including a ton of your mailbag questions.

Our main topic for the week: Evaluating Bruce Boudreau’s first 6 games as Wild head coach.

Other topics include:

• Jared Spurgeon’s “upper body injury”
• Matt Dumba stepping up in his absence
• Erik Haula out with a foot injury
• Joel Eriksson Ek’s debut and first goal
• Zach Parise’s 301st goal
• Did Zach Parise’s quest for 300 cost the Wild wins on Saturday and Sunday?
• Why the St. Louis Blues are no joke
• Should we panic about anything from the first 6 games?
• Is Teemu Pulkkinen too slow to make a difference?
• What should the 3-on-3 overtime lineup be?
• Kuemper had a horrific meltdown on Sunday. Will we see Alex Stalock soon?
• Players that have surprised us so far
• Should we worry about Minnesota’s middling possession numbers?
• IS CHUCK FLETCHER ON THE HOT SEAT?!?!?!!!!!!11

And much, much more.

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This time, it counts! It’s the regular season, and the Hockey Wilderness Podcast is ready to keep you up on all that happened with the Minnesota Wild in their opening week. Tony sat down with Joe Bouley and Chris Boyd on Sunday Night, and they discussed the following:

• Minnesota acquiring Teemu Pulkkinen on waivers
• Joel Eriksson Ek’s debut being delayed by immigration issues
• Zac Dalpe: Fourth-line Center
• Minnesota’s tough loss against St. Louis
• Kinda drooling over Robby Fabbri
• Wild’s dominant win vs. Winnipeg
• Warring over a nickname for Teemu Pulkkinen
• Nino’s invisibility through 2 games
• Who’s better suited to be on the third pair now: Mike Reilly or Christian Folin?

Main Topic: Is it ever OK to boo your team? If so, when?

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First, subscribe to us wherever you get your podcasts from, whether that’s iTunes, Podcast Addict, PocketCasts, Doggcatcher, Stitcher Radio- wherever you listen to podcasts, that’s where you can find us!

While you are there, you can leave us a review! They give us a boost in the algorithms so that more Minnesota Wild fans can find us. If you’re having a hard time finding where to leave a review, here’s the link to our iTunes page.

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Thanks for listening to the Hockey Wilderness Podcast. We set a personal-best for downloads last week, and it means everything to us that you listen to and enjoy the show. We’ll be back for more next week. Stay tuned, and Go Wild!

It’s Opening Night for the Minnesota Wild, and it’s time for everyone at the Hockey Wilderness Podcast to get on record with their predictions.

Tony sits down with several Hockey Wilderness writers and Friends of the Show to answer 4 questions about how the Wild season plays out. These questions are:

1. How many Points does Minnesota have at the end of the season?
2. How far will Minnesota make it in the playoffs?
3. Who is your 2016-17 Wild MVP?
4. Can Tony bully you into making a bold prediction?

Here are the participants for this episode:

Joe Bouley (1:30)

Ben Remington of Wild Xtra (7:19)

Aaron Holm (13:17)

B (18:44)

Panda Pete of Twins and Losses (23:50)

Chris Boyd (32:54)

Greg Spiroff (37:24)

Tory Palattao (45:04)

Bob Spencer of Hashtag Hockey (48:51)

Kine (1:03:46)

Derek Felska of State of Hockey News (1:10:39)

Adam Stafki (1:20:25)

Barry Campbell (1:29:34)

Tony Abbott (1:35:10)

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Minnesota made their final cuts the day after we podcaster last week. Pretty cool of them, don’t you think? We catch you up on all the latest news, just in time for Minnesota to claim someone on waivers 36 hours after we recorded on Sunday Night.

Anyway, here’s what we got for you this week:

• Minnesota’s cuts, including Tyler Graovac and Alex Tuch
• Zac Dalpe on waivers
• Ryan Carter undergoing shoulder surgery. Is this the end of the line for him?
• Can Joel Eriksson Ek and Christoph Bertschy stick on the fourth line? Or is a trade coming.
• Could Minnesota really trade Darcy Kuemper and roll with Alex Stalock?
• Did Minnesota miss the boat on the Nail Yakupov trade?
• Will the Iowa Wild make the playoffs?

And our main topic: We go through each team in the Western Conference and figure out if they got better or worse.

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Training camp is still happening, and the Hockey Wilderness Podcast is playing their way back into shape. Tony spent his Tuesday night with Joe Bouley (Managing Editor, Hockey Wilderness) and they discussed all the goings-on as Minnesota gets their roster for Opening Night.

Topics include:

• Tomas Fleischmann fails his physical, won’t make the team
• Nino Niederreiter wins Silver at the World Cup of Hockey
• First impressions of Eric Staal
• Charlie Coyle: Officially not a center
• Victor Bartley out with a torn triceps. Who was he again?
• First massive wave of cuts (A second one would arrive Wednesday
• What happens to Chuck Fletcher if the Wild don’t get past the first round
• Is Alex Tuch better off in limited NHL minutes, or maximum AHL minutes?
• Pros and cons of the favorites to make the roster

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Thank you all for listening! Your patronage means everything to us, and inspires us to keep bringing our A-Games to the podcast. We’ll see you next week!