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Byline: TOM JONES Meander through its locker room, and the faces provoke no recognition. Peek at the nameplates above the lockers, but that delivers no help either, merely a jumble [...]

Montreal, Quebec -- WILD 6, MONTREAL 3 The Wild gave up way too many shots. It surrendered far too many scoring chances. It allowedtoo many goals. And Wild coach Jacques [...]

For the first time this season, Wild coach Jacques Lemaire hinted he might go with one clear-cut No. 1 goalie. But only if one establishes himself. And if that doesn't [...]

The Wild plays only one game this week. Is that good or bad? The Wild will let you know in a week or two. It's a question of rest vs. [...]

Two goalies. One gets hurt and the other steps right in. Then the other gets hurt and is replaced by the first one. When both are healthy, both play. On [...]

East Rutherford, N.J. -- NEW JERSEY 3, WILD 2 As the national anthem played Sunday afternoon at the home of the New Jersey Devils, Wild coach Jacques Lemaire glanced up [...]

Jacques Lemaire, whose emotion-meter usually is set on zero, looked at Wes Walz as if the Wild center was set to hit the ice in a pink bonnet and a [...]

The Wild finally officially announced Thursday that head coach Jacques Lemaire and assistants Mike Ramsey and Mario Tremblay have signed contract extensions. The agreements were reached last week and were [...]

Wild General Manager Doug Risebrough created a buzz around the NHL three years ago when he lured Jacques Lemaire away from the golf courses and coziness of retirement in Florida [...]

Sunrise, Fla. -- The Wild is expected to announce early this week that coach Jacques Lemaire is signed to a contract extension that will keep him behind the bench for [...]

San Jose, Calif. -- No task is harder for a coach than sending a player back to the minors, especially when that player is giving everything he has to give. [...]

Inside his suite on the eighth floor of the Westin Hotel in Calgary, Wild General Manager Doug Risebrough - tie loosened, shirt wrinkled and untucked, shoes off - sagged into [...]

Wild coach Jacques Lemaire is a rare bird in coaching circles. He has never been fired. Heck, even Scotty Bowman, the undisputed greatest coach in hockey history and perhaps the [...]

Usually, when Wild coach Jacques Lemaire reviews the videotape of a rotten game, it's not as bad as he originally thought. But when Lemaire critiqued Wednesday night's 2-1 dud against [...]

The toughest part of a marathon isn't the first 13 miles, it's the final 13. The hardest part of a 98-yard football drive isn't getting to midfield, it's getting into [...]

Calgary, Alberta -- CALGARY 3, WILD 2 Just when the Wild figured out how to beat one team from Alberta, it suddenly has a problem with the other. The Wild [...]

Neither the Wild nor coach Jacques Lemaire is talking, but the team has pretty much nailed down a contract extension for the veteran coach. A couple of small details remain, [...]

Buffalo, N.Y. -- Wild coach Jacques Lemaire cringes when defenseman Filip Kuba's playing time rises above normal, but given the team's injury situation, he has no real alternative but to [...]

CALGARY 3, WILD 2 Something is missing with the Wild these days - that spark, pep or sizzle that made it one of this season's surprise teams in the NHL. [...]

Denver, Colo. -- For the second time this season, the Wild played a team that recently changed coaches. That, according to Wild coach Jacques Lemaire, is not a good thing. [...]

WILD 4, EDMONTON 3 Pigs flew Tuesday night. Pigs flew, the seas parted, and the devil had to dig his car out of a snowdrift this morning. The Wild finally [...]

It ain't broke, so Wild coach Jacques Lemaire isn't about to fix it. Heading into Tuesday night's game against Edmonton, Wild goalie Dwayne Roloson was undefeated in his past eight [...]

Detroit, Mich. -- WILD 3, DETROIT 2 Because of a speedy start to the season, Wild players have been treated like the cute kids at a family gathering. They get [...]

ca -- For the first month of the season, the Wild enjoyed a start that tasted better than ice cream. Now it's suffering the brain freeze. When the Wild went [...]

Less than 20 seconds into Friday's 2-2 tie, Wild goalie Dwayne Roloson made a good save, and surprisingly, when he got up from the ice, he didn't leave any rust [...]

Phoenix, Ariz. -- The game ended only minutes earlier, yet there was Wild forward Jim Dowd, flopped face down on the floor of the locker room, dripping with sweat after [...]

Chicago, Ill. -- The Wild might have reeled off three victories during a four-game homestand, but it is ready to hit the road. 'Listen,' Wild coach Jacques Lemaire said, 'I [...]

WILD 4, CALGARY 3 You set your alarm for bright and early because you have a big meeting at the office in the morning. You wake up and the sun [...]

DETROIT 5, WILD 3 Wild coach Jacques Lemaire walked into the postgame news conference Saturday night with a smile on his face and a couple of one-liners worthy of a [...]

The first thing Wild rookie left winger Stephane Veilleux said he was going to do after practice Saturday morning was to call his parents and family back in St. Georges [...]

Now, for perhaps the first time this season, we'll be able to figure out how good the Wild is. Minnesota? Meet the defending champs. After racing through the preseason as [...]

WILD 3, DALLAS 1 Remember those old spaghetti westerns with Clint Eastwood? He would ride slowly into town squinting his eyes and gnawing on a cigar - staring straight ahead, [...]

Typical Jacques Lemaire. Asking him about a milestone is kind of like asking him if he's interested in a root canal or a hammer to the forehead. Lemaire secured his [...]

Wild coach Jacques Lemaire said something unusual after Saturday's 2-2 tie in St. Louis. Lemaire was midway through a generic answer to a generic question about his team's performance when [...]

Wild defenseman Nick Schultz might have a world of potential, and he might even be a future star in the NHL. But what he might be in the future has [...]

Wild forward Wes Walz flipped on a hockey game Wednesday night at his home. He watched only a few minutes before turning the channel. 'I couldn't take too much,' Walz [...]

The temptation is to hand him the keys to the franchise. Wild forward Marian Gaborik is a package of size, intelligence and enormous talent. He's the type of player teams [...]

No reason to change something that works. That's why, for the third consecutive season, the Wild will rotate captains on a monthly basis. Wild coach Jacques Lemaire said the captain [...]

The Wild made its final roster cuts Monday, more than 24 hours before today's 2 p.m. deadline set by the NHL. However, don't think the decisions were easy. In the [...]

With more plays like this, Wild first-round pick Pierre-Marc Bouchard is erasing any doubts about whether he is ready to play in the NHL. During Thursday night's preseason game in [...]

It's not fun being a hockey player this week. Practices become critical. Preseason games take on the feeling of a college final exam. A stern word from a coach turns [...]

Edmonton, Alberta -- As first impressions go, this was a pretty good one for the Wild. In its first preseason game of the 2002-03 season Friday night, the Wild tied [...]

Q: Is this Jacques Lemaire's last training camp? A: We don't mean to scare any Wild fans out there right off the bat, but Lemaire did just turn 57 and [...]

A few weeks back, Wild coach Jacques Lemaire basked in the Florida sun. His biggest decisions? Swim in the pool or in the ocean. Play 18 holes of golf or [...]

So who will the Red Wings name to replace the legend, Scotty Bowman? The easy answer, and the one most believe will happen, is that one of Bowman's longtime assistants [...]

Not so long ago, Jacques Lemaire soaked up the sun on Florida's Gulf Coast. He was living the good life, and his biggest daily decision was whether to play 18 [...]

Calgary, Alberta -- CALGARY 4, WILD 3 Wild center Jim Dowd pumped away on a stationary bike as if he were training for the Tour de France. Underneath the sweat [...]

St. Louis, Mo. -- WILD 2, ST. LOUIS 1 For 22 consecutive years the St. Louis Blues have crashed the NHL's postseason party. Stringing together the longest active playoff streak [...]

St. Louis, Mo. -- When Wild General Manager Doug Risebrough announced over the weekend that rookie defenseman Nick Schultz would go to the minors before season's end, some might have [...]

St. Louis, Mo. -- Here we go. Again. It's happening. Again. Break out the nice crystal glasses. Get some cheese and crackers. That will go well with the whine. Once [...]