The Minnesota Wild have only been around since 2000-01 ... The defense corps will dictate the ultimate success of this team. Wild thing Brent Burns brings his big shot and roving ways to the ...
Defensively, the Wild are one of the stingiest units in NHL play, giving up 105 total goals (2.7 per game) to rank eighth. With a goal differential of +10, the team is 11th in the league.
Brent Burns and some of his teammates participated ... He played most of his first NHL season as an 18-year-old right winger with the Minnesota Wild, then was shuttled between forward and defense ...
(AP Photo/Karl DeBlaker) Minnesota Wild’s Yakov Trenin (13) shoots the puck past Carolina Hurricanes’ Brent Burns (8) during ...
Doug Risebrough—then with Minnesota ... Wild coach Jacques Lemaire converted Burns to a blueliner, Risebrough didn’t expect him to become one of the NHL’s best. “That speaks to Brent ...