ST. PAUL (AP) - Minnesota Wild goalie Niklas Backstrom has undergone sports hernia surgery.The team announced that Backstrom's operation went as planned on...

...he came to Hackensack to go fishing with a friend and never returned to the big city - except maybe to attend a Minnesota Wild game.Stanko drove trucks for Witham Concrete in Hackensack for 10 years.The city hired him to plow snow when Bill...

GLENDALE, Ariz. (AP) - Dany Heatley scored two goals and the Minnesota Wild used a rare offensive outburst to hold off the Phoenix Coyotes 4-3 Thursday night.Jason Zucker scored 1:35 into the game...

...Bertuzzi scored his second goal of the game early in the third to lift the Detroit Red Wings to a 5-3 win over the Minnesota Wild on Friday night.Pavel Datsyuk, who assisted on Zetterberg's goal, put Detroit ahead by two late in the second...

...and Mason Raymond had a power-play goal and an assist in the second period to lead Vancouver past the sputtering Minnesota Wild 4-1 on Thursday night, the fourth straight win for the Canucks.Niklas Backstrom gave up two scores in each of...

...husband and father, who was very proud of his boys. He loved to watch his sons play hockey and was a fan of the Minnesota Wild. Tom will be forever missed by his wife and best friend, Vicki; sons, Shawn, Brandon and Tyler; mother, Mary...

...Solomon.HOCKEYNational Hockey LeagueCOLUMBUS BLUE JACKETS - Signed RW Derek Dorsett to a three-year contract.MINNESOTA WILD - Signed F Mikael Granlund.OTTAWA SENATORS - Named Luke Richardson coach, Steve Stirling assistant coach and Matt...

...USAJrGolf.com.Also, A photo on Page 2B with a story about Josh Harding signing a contract extension with the Minnesota Wild inadvertently identified the goalie as Niklas Backstrom. The Dispatch regrets the errors.

...the ice. We even have pond hockey, the granddaddy of all hockey. Watching the Brainerd Warriors rather than the Minnesota Wild will allow all of us to cheer for the home team and get back to the fun of just playing for the love of the game...

...attempting to defraud the National Hockey League with false information during his failed attempt to invest in the Minnesota Wild in 2008.The St. Paul Pioneer Press says the man accused of running the scheme from his mansion in Minneapolis...