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Sixty days into the NHL season, the Wild seem to have turned the corner on how they must play to be successful.

It was one of those moments that quickly is committed to memory because of the shock value.

In the four days since they last played, Wild players and coaches got some precious time to catch up on family matters, practice drills and rest.

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Three Minnesota Wild hockey players have purchased a luxury suite at the Xcel Energy Center for the season to host seriously ill children and their families.

The timing, Chuck Fletcher said, was merely coincidental. Monday's swap of the underachieving Benoit Pouliot for Montreal winger Guillaume Latendresse wasn't meant to strike fear in the Wild locker room in the wake of an 8-12-2 start.

Share + Nov 24, 2009 8:35 am US/Central Reporting Mark Rosen ST. PAUL There are playoff beards and hockey hair, but members of the Minnesota Wild are sporting some mustaches this " Movember " for a good cause.

Submitted by Kristin Holtz on November 19, 2009 - 1:00pm. Minnesota Wild hockey has gotten ugly lately.

Minnesota wild center Mikko Koivu , of Finland, outreaches Tampa Bay Lightning defenseman Victor Hedman , of Sweden, for a loose puck during the first period of an NHL hockey game Thursday, Nov.

Ryan Malone tied it with 14.7 seconds left in regulation, and Vincent Lecavalier and Steven Stamkos scored in the shootout to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 4-3 comeback win over the Minnesota Wild on Thursday night.

The Toronto Maple Leafs , after scoring a late goal to pull within 4-2, pulled their goalie and then drew two Minnesota penalties, thus sending six skaters onto the ice against the Wild 's three with 56.1 seconds left in the third period.

The Toronto Maple Leafs will try to keep moving in the right direction as they will try for a third straight win when they host the Minnesota Wild tonight at Air Canada Centre.

Cal Clutterbuck and Mikko Koivu scored first-period goals and the Minnesota Wild held on to beat the Dallas Stars 3-2 on Saturday night.

Wild players didn't lose their razors. They're not trying to make a fashion statement.

Petr Sykora had a goal and an assist, and Eric Belanger and Antti Miettinen also scored to help the Minnesota Wild win for the first time in regulation this season, 3-2 over the New York Rangers on Friday night.

The Minnesota Wild downed the high-flying Pittsburgh Penguins 2-1 on Saturday to earn their first road win of the season.

Preview: The Wild, 0-8 on the road, visits the Igloo for the last time. The Wild is 6-2-1 all-time vs.

As he pondered who should become the Wild's first permanent captain, coach Todd Richards expected Mikko Koivu to make a strong case for himself.

Mikko Koivu congratulates Martin Havlat on his second period goal against the Philadelphia Flyers at the Wachovia Center on September 29, 2009 in Philadelphia.

The Wild are on the road again, and though this quick trip to St. Louis is lower-maintenance than their five-game, 11-day West Coast journey earlier this month, the results could be similarly disastrous if they do not break some terrible habits.

Officially, the NHL preseason ended a couple of weeks ago, but with Todd Richards keeping virtually all starters out of the lineup the Minnesota Wild did their finest impression of sports fans everywhere -- paying a regular season price for preseason games.