The Minnesota Wild Hockey PONDcast

Tom Reid answers your emails and addresses your comments following the second period of each Minnesota Wild Radio broadcast.

The Wild return home for the first time in two weeks to face off against the Colorado Avalanche. We preview the game with Chuck Kobasew and Greg Zanon plus get an injury update from Clutterbuck and hear from the head coach.

Hockey Unplugged was back on Tuesday night at the Champp's in Minnetonka with Martin Havlat and Benoit Pouliot.

Brian Rolston is a former member of the Wild and knows his buddy Mikko Koivu well. Today we catch up with the former captain of the Wild to talk about Koivu grabbing the Captains "C" going forward.

Here's an injury report following Tuesdays practice with Todd Richards, Chuck Kobasew and Kyle Brodziak.

Mikko Koivu was named captain of the Minnesota Wild on Tuesday afternoon in St. Paul and here's the full press conference featuring #9, Todd Richards and Chuck Fletcher.

The Wild traded for RW Chuck Kobasew from the Boston Bruins on Sunday night and the PONDcast catches up with him.

Heard each week from noon-1PM on WCCO, this weeks show hears from Cal Clutterbuck, Wally Shaver and previews Wednesdays game vs Colorado.

Good effort again but again not quite enough and the Wild lose 2-1 in Vancouver. We recap the finale of the road trip and bring you the postgame comments of the Canucks head coach.

Tom Reid answers the questions you sent in for the Waste Management Trash Talk Hotline following the second period.