Minnesota Wild Executive Vice President of Hockey Operations and General Manager Bill Guerin has been named a finalist for the Jim Gregory General Manager of the Year Award, the National Hockey League announced Tuesday.

The Minnesota Wild is back in its Stanley Cup Playoff series against the Colorado Avalanche, now down 2-1 after a dominating 5-1 win in Game 3 Saturday night at Grand Casino Arena.

Kaprizov has high standards for himself as one of the Wild's best players. When he hits that level, as in Game 3 on Saturday, it shows.

The Minnesota Wild recently received a message about defenseman Jonas Brodin, who has missed each of the first two games of Round 2.

This week on the H&H Podcast, Ahmad Hicks and Henry Lake dive into the Minnesota Timberwolves and Wild in their playoff series. The Wolves have a huge Game 5 at San Antonio Tuesday night, while the Wild face elimination at Colorado on Wednesday.

The Colorado Avalanche and Minnesota Wild meet in Game 3 Saturday of their NHL Playoffs series. Puck drop in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is at 9 p.m. ET.

Did the Minnesota Wild make a fatal mistake by deciding to start Filip Gustavsson over Jesper Wallstedt in Game 2 against the Avs?

John Hynes summarized what went wrong for the Minnesota Wild fairly succinctly. “The style of game we needed to play to win the game, we made the conscious choice not to play that way tonight,” the coach said after the Wild lost to the Colorado Avalanche 5-2 in Game 4 of the Western Conference Second Round at Grand Casino Arena on Monday.