The Hockey Loons

The Wilderness Talk boys are joined by our friend Joe Cool to preview the Minnesota Vikings playoff game against the Los Angeles Rams! Joe has a podcast you can find titled "The Doctor and the Dog" and bringing him on to talk Vikings was perfect timing! You can follow him on X by searching @JoeCoolSkol! He even has the patience to let Luke be a little optimistic about his Packers before their eventual demise this weekend.

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Justin Hein, Luke Sims, and Justin Wiggins return from a short break to discuss the Wild's recent skid and if anyone is panicing yet.

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The guys are back to discuss the litany of injuries hampering the Minnesota Wild and how they just keep on winning anyways. But how long can that last? Plus, a deep dive into the franchise goaltending history brings up a few names as a blast from the past.

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The guys react to the bombshell of a trade between Minnesota and Columbus, sending David Jiricek to the State of Hockey as the Wild look to build an Avengers Blue Line. Plus just how shocked are we the Wild sit atop the NHL Standings?

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The Minnesota Wild dropped a pivitoal game against the Winnipeg Jets at home. That leaves the Wild at 0-12-1 against Colorado, Dallas and Winnipeg over the past two years. Aside from the disappointing loss, the Wild have been rumored to be in on David Jiricek from Columbus. All of this and more from the last episode before Thanksgiving!

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Wiggins is back from LTIR! Justin re-joins Luke Sims and Justin Hein after they took the reins for a few weeks while he begrudgingly enjoyed the beaches of San Diego. The Wild continue to roll, outside their recent loss to the Dallas Stars. The guys debate if the injury excuse is a worthy one or if another loss to a top Central Division opponent is cause for concern.

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The Minnesota Wild stole five of six points on their recent road trip and now sit second in the NHL standings behind the Winnipeg Jets. Without Wiggins, Hein and Sims talk about the road trip, and Hein gives his in-depth breakdown of the Minnesota Wild penalty kill and looks ahead to the next few games.

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No Justin Wiggins for this episode. Hein and Sims carry this one as they discuss the ugly Minnesota Wild loss to the L.A. Kings, the loss, albeit brief, of Kirill Kaprizov, and how it affected the team the rest of the game. In addition, the dynamic duo recaps the putrid powerplay and penalty kill as well as discussing how Yakov Trenin is kind of bad. Last but not least we do a quick preview of the Wild's upcoming road trip where they should be able to bank a lot of points.

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Justin, Justin and Luke go over their takeaways from a very successful road trip for the Minnesota Wild featuring Marc-Andre Fleury's final game in Pittsburgh, Jake Middleton's offensive output, and Kirill Kaprizov's dominance.

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Justin Hein, Luke Sims, and Justin Wiggins react to the Wild's sweep of two Florida powerhouses this week and what Marco Rossi's hot start means for his future.

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