Longtime Wild assistant coach Darby Hendrickson joins SFTS to take a trip down memory lane in our continuing celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Minnesota Wild. Darby and Mike talk expansion Wild, the 2003 Canucks-Wild series, the late Sergei Zholtok, the Hendrickson Foundation, Kirill Kaprizov, Joel Eriksson Ek, Zach Parise and, of course, the Wild's power play.

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Longtime Columbus Blue Jackets play-by-play man Jeff Rimer joins SFTS to talk the good ole days with Russo in Florida, Torts, and his other NHL stops in Montreal and Washington. The legendary Rimer talks about his friendship with Larry King, Pete Rose, Gary Carter, and John Davidson and his admiration for Bryan Murray, Doug MacLean, Pavel Bure, Artemi Panarin and Squiggy.

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NHL Network analyst and former 1983 No. 1 overall pick Brian Lawton joins SFTS to talk about NHL rumblings, the Minnesota Wild season to date and potential center acquisitions. Brian offers his analysis on Kaprizov and Kahkonen, and the great job Bill Guerin and Dean Evason are doing with the Wild this season. Brian, the former GM of the Tampa Bay Lightning discusses his wish to someday return to working for an NHL team and being one of the many friends to help Mark Parrish in his battle with addiction.

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Dr. Bill Morice, the President of Mayo Clinic Labs, returns to SFTS to talk NHL and the Minnesota Wild COVID-19 outbreaks. Dr. Morice discusses genetic forensics, vaccines, long-haul complications for athletes, and the mayo clinic working with the NHL to determine if there is a cross team on ice transmission with the virus.

The good doctor also discusses the long term effects of the virius, how Marco Rossi might be coping, and he answers SFTS listener questions on the virus as well. 

Mike and Dr. Morice also discuss how the Wild looked as they returned to the ice for the first time in 14 days last night in Los Angeles. Dr. Morice, a life long Minnesota Wild fan is now working on developing a vaccine to fix the NHL's 31st-ranked PP in Minnesota.

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Former NHLer and current KO Sports player agent Cam Stewart joins SFTS to talk about the 2000 inaugural Wild team and how they were the bad news bears that everybody hated to play. Cam shares memories of coach Jacques Lemaire, playing with Wes Walz and Marian Gaborik and the rest of the Wild that first season. Cam also touches on his coaching and playing career for the Houston Aeros. Cam talks about his concussion history, how he became an agent, and the potential No. 1 overall pick Shane Wright who he represents. Other young stars in the making that Cam represents, include Cole Perfetti and the Foote brother's. Stew also sings the praises of current Wild players Ian Cole and Dakota Mermis.

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Former Wild center and go-to quote Kyle Brodziak joins SFTS to talk about the upcoming World's Longest Game (40 players, 252 hours of hockey) he's playing in to help find a cure for cancer, and set a world record too. Kyle talks about how the death of his father at the age of 14 impacted him and why participating in this charity event is so important to him. Plus Kyle shares stories from his Wild career, the notorious Game 7 in 2014 in Denver and how he knew Nino Niederreiter's goal went in, Kyle also talks about his love for Koivu, Spurgeon, family the state of Minnesota and what's next.

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Former Wild defenseman Kurtis Foster joins SFTS to talk Minnesota Wild glory days as the franchise celebrates their 20th anniversary, Foster shares stories on Jacques Lemaire, Mikko Koivu, Derek Boogaard and more. Plus, Kurtis offers his analysis on Wild prospect Marco Rossi, breaking his femur, the class of the Sharks and Doug Risebrough and much more. Foster also talks coaching junior hockey and what he hopes to do next.

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On this edition of SFTS, Billy Guerin, the Wild's GM discuss the start to the Wild's season including their first loss of the year, a 1-0 shutout loss in Anaheim last night. Plus Guerin talks to Russo about Jared Spurgeon's captaincy, Marco Rossi's absence and upgrading the center position for the Wild. They guys also get into the Wild's struggles on the power play, the eventual Kaprizov/Fiala negotiations, and the Pens' 2021 first-round pick. Mike and Bill also get into Guerin's favorite Minneapolis-St. Paul restaurants and his memories of playing with Doug Weight.

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Longtime NHL coach Bruce Boudreau, who will be moonlighting as an NHL Network studio analyst and Washington Capitals pre- and post-game analyst, joins SFTS to preview each division, talk about this weird season and share hilarious stories. He also talks Jared Spurgeon captaincy, his respect for Nick Bonino and the new junior expansion team he's bringing to Hershey

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Tyler Spurgeon, who captained Innsbruck the past 5 years and now captains Kaufbeuren, joins SFTS to talk new Wild captain and younger brother Jared Spurgeon. He shares stories about Jared growing up, how they both got the hockey bug, his pride in witnessing Jared's path to NHL captaincy. Plus some fun ribbing along the way about Jared's inability to grow a thick stache, the Spurgeon family connection to Tyler Ennis and how Ryan Suter and Zach Parise were big supporters of Jared receiving the captaincy.

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